The 3pm Crash Isn’t Normal, It’s a Biochemical Alarm
Why Your Afternoon Fatigue Isn’t About Willpower, It’s About Biochemistry, and Here's How to Fix It.
There’s a peculiar phenomenon we’ve normalised in modern working life: the 3pm crash. The post-lunch lull. The mental fog that descends just as the inbox fills and the meetings stack up.
We joke about it. We medicate it with caffeine. We plan around it. And yet, few ever pause to ask a more interesting question: What if this crash isn’t a normal feature of the workday… but a systemic failure in our internal biology?
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