Circadian Policy: Light, Schedules, and Public Health
Most circadian advice stops at blackout curtains and putting your phone down. But the biology was never the hard part — the hard part is that no single body treats light and time as public infrastructure. Drawing on a listener's thought experiment, this episode works through the real evidence: a 2025 NHANES analysis linking the lowest quartile of circadian synchronization to 70% higher all-cause mortality, the 2026 Physiological Reviews cardiovascular case, and the melanopic EDI standard that explains why a light can look dim and still be biologically loud. Then the two levers — working hours…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.