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Patricia's body clock wakes her at 5am every morning. It has for 50 years. But waking up and feeling awake are two different things. "I'd lie there feeling like I'd been hit by a truck," the 73-year-old Wairarapa woman explains. "Eight hours of sleep and I still felt like I'd had two." Her husband was the same. Both up at 5am. Both exhausted by lunch. They stopped going to shows. Stopped saying yes to dinners. The garden became a chore. Morning walks became something to survive, not enjoy. "We earned this," Patricia says. "But we weren't living our retirement. We were just surviving it." Then she stumbled across something unexpected — and within a week, both noticed the difference. Six weeks later, her exact words: "Fresh as a daisy." Read what changed for Patricia and her husband: