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And I want to open this again similarly.

By the way, looking back at the last episode, I missed an opportunity.

You know, we had some like confessions early on about like things that from a circadian health perspective, we perhaps could be growing towards or doing a little bit better.

We could have called that circadian confessions and then had ushers confessions like fall in right after that.

I missed it.

Hand up on me.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I know.

But with that, you know, one thing that's always complicated and we'll talk about, I think at length today is circadian timing is often a characteristic of your circadian type, right? And that being in the timing of your sleep and your wake.

And timing of your sleep is not always influenced just by your circadian system, if you will.

I mean, it's this complex interplay with other factors, social, occupational, familial demands driving it.

So I'm going to throw this at Saima first.

And I'm going to ask you, Saima, you know, if all social, family, and work obligations were kind of tossed away, you know, they didn't even exist.

then what would your natural sleep-wake schedule look like?

So kind of just based on this last time, I am a like 10, 10.30 to 5, 5.30 type person, no matter what.

In the wake time, like it is always at 5.30 for the latest.

And so that means if I happen to stay out late till noon or midnight or one, and yes, occasionally I do that.

I am not perfect.

I admit I am human.

I still wake up at 5.30.

So that is what it is that has been like that for, I want to say like since I stopped working nights, you know, when I really got my system back on track.

I would like to be able to sleep now that my kids don't wake me up at between 5 and 6, like 7 a.m.

I would like that.

It doesn't work.

I am ready to go at 5.30. I'm at Pilates at 6 a.m.

And I want to open this again similarly.

By the way, looking back at the last episode, I missed an opportunity.

You know, we had some like confessions early on about like things that from a circadian health perspective, we perhaps could be growing towards or doing a little bit better.

We could have called that circadian confessions and then had ushers confessions like fall in right after that.

I missed it.

Hand up on me.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I know.

But with that, you know, one thing that's always complicated and we'll talk about, I think at length today is circadian timing is often a characteristic of your circadian type, right? And that being in the timing of your sleep and your wake.

And timing of your sleep is not always influenced just by your circadian system, if you will.

I mean, it's this complex interplay with other factors, social, occupational, familial demands driving it.

So I'm going to throw this at Saima first.

And I'm going to ask you, Saima, you know, if all social, family, and work obligations were kind of tossed away, you know, they didn't even exist.

then what would your natural sleep-wake schedule look like?

So kind of just based on this last time, I am a like 10, 10.30 to 5, 5.30 type person, no matter what.

In the wake time, like it is always at 5.30 for the latest.

And so that means if I happen to stay out late till noon or midnight or one, and yes, occasionally I do that.

I am not perfect.

I admit I am human.

I still wake up at 5.30.

So that is what it is that has been like that for, I want to say like since I stopped working nights, you know, when I really got my system back on track.

I would like to be able to sleep now that my kids don't wake me up at between 5 and 6, like 7 a.m.

I would like that.

It doesn't work.

I am ready to go at 5.30. I'm at Pilates at 6 a.m.