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I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why your wounds heal faster in the daytime, the Peter principle, which explains why so much goes wrong, and why there's one tame population of foxes on Earth, and what they've taught us about evolution.

Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.

I always thought the best time for your body to heal. Curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.

I always thought the best time for your body to heal was at night.

You know how you can sleep off stuff like a bad mood or a hangover or general sleepiness?

Or when you get sick and you go to sleep and you wake up and you feel better.

Stuff like that.

Well according to a new study, one thing that's hard to sleep off is a skin injury.

It turns out the best time for healing that is during the day. Well kind of and this has

major medical implications. I totally thought the same thing I thought nighttime

was the time everything healed. Today in health myth busting.

Totally.

Love it.

For me to explain this, I've got to back up and talk about your circadian rhythm.

That's your internal clock.

It originates in your brain, in your hypotheramus, but it has effects on your whole body.

For instance, your internal clock affects the size of your liver.

Seriously, your liver actually inflates by day and deflates by night.

And your circadian rhythm also affects your largest organ,

which is your skin.

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