When you eat may affect your health as much aswhat you eat, say Salk Institute researchers who discovered that the body’s critical metabolic functions are mostly controlled by food intake, and not by the body’s circadian clock as was previously believed. “If feeding time determines the activity of a large number of genes completely independent […]
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Direct Observations Of Circadian Processes Reveal New Layers Of Complexity
Our biological timekeeper – known as the circadian clock – runs to a 24-hour rhythm that regulates metabolism, cell division, and hormone production, as well as our wake-sleep cycle. Until now, scientists believed they had a fairly good grasp of how the circadian clock functioned, but a new study, published in Science, looks set to […]