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Your Body Clock Could be Connected to Type Two Diabetes

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A faulty body clock may increase the risk of type two diabetes.

British researchers say people with a rare genetic mutation that effects the body clock hormone melatonin are much more likely to develop the disease.

Shift workers have a higher risk of type two diabetes.

And when someone's sleep is disrupted for just a few days they tend to start developing symptoms.