Sentences with phrase «bodys internal clock»

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Melatonin is your body's internal alarm clock and regulates our sleep - wake schedule.

Because our smartphone and computer screens emit blue light, when we stare at them before bed we are resetting our body's internal clock, making it more difficult to fall asleep.

A little background on the traveler's worst enemy: «Jet lag occurs when we experience a desynchronization between our internal body clock and the external time clock of our destination,» explained Natalie Dautovich, Ph.D., an Environmental Fellow at the National Sleep Foundation.

After we have a big meal, especially around lunchtime, the body just naturally has its own internal clock which tells us that we should be falling asleep around that time.

In essence, you can trick your body into changing the timing of your internal clock.

To achieve this, a body clock exposes more of its internal «day» to light and hides some of its internal «night» in the dark.

The researchers who propose this idea suggest that light therapy works because it resets the body's internal clock.

Research into one form of depression — seasonal affective disorder (SAD)-- has uncovered another potential factor in mood disorders: an internal body clock that has gone awry.

The internal body clock is still alert, now trained by years and years of early mornings.

Take yourself outside every day for fresh air, a sense of vitality and all important Vitamin D. Daylight also helps to reset your internal body clock — also known as the circadian rhythm leading to better sleep and allowing your body to tune into what it needs.

This argument seems logical since the combination of long flights, strange beds and time zone changes can confuse players» internal body clocks.

It's certainly reasonable to hypothesize that the combination of long flights, strange beds and time zone changes confuse internal body clocks and prevent players and teams from performing up to expectations.

To be most restorative, naptime should begin at about 1 pm every day, as this is the timing that corresponds with their circadian rhythm (internal body clock).

Life doesn't always allow you to follow that routine every day, but if you can set your body's internal clock to get used to a regular and reliable sleep pattern, you will often be rewarded with a better sleep each time your head hits the pillow.

Anxiety can disrupt the signals in the brain, which confuses the body and can distort the internal clock, leading to all day wariness.

Anxiety can disrupt the signals in the brain, which confuses the body and can distort the internal clock.

When you fly across time zones, it can take time for your internal body clock to catch up with the local time.

Your body relies on a complex set of external cues, internal clocks, and chemical processes to wake your brain up in the morning.

Humans, including baby humans, have an internal body clock called the Circadian rhythm

Our bodies have an internal clock that is synchronized to light - dark cycles (our circadian rhythm).

Light is one way to regulate babies» (and adults») circadian rhythm — the body's internal clock.

This rhythm affects things such as temperature, hormonal changes sleep / wake patterns and other physiological and biological processes (our internal body clock).

His internal body clock will know it is too late and there will be an increase in his Cortisol level.

We all have a «sleep window» that is set by our internal body clock.

The same morning wake up time can help balance baby's internal body clock and establish sleep routines.

For instance, when you expose yourself to sunlight during the day, you are helping your body calibrate it's internal clock.

The internal body clock is light sensitive, which tells us when to wake and when to sleep.

As we're coasting toward bedtime, these circadian clocks cool our internal body temperature.

Researchers know that circadian clocks in mammals control the internal body temperature to drive sleep patterns, says Orie Shafer, principal investigator of the study.

This feeling usually fades as your body adjusts to the new time zone and resets its internal clock accordingly.

The researchers observed that even though the subjects» days had been abnormally extended by four hours, their body temperature and melatonin and cortisol levels continued to function according to their own internal 24 - hour circadian clock.

A FAULTY internal clock in the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin could be behind type 2 diabetes — a condition in which the body is unable to produce or use insulin properly.

A high - fat diet affects the molecular mechanism controlling the internal body clock that regulates metabolic functions in the liver, UC Irvine scientists have found.

If human body clocks are similar to mouse ones, Sato's study suggests that people suffering from jetlag could adjust their eating patterns to get their internal clocks back to normal more quickly.

Nature is a master at constructing biological machines and circuits, including the ones that maintain the body's internal clock, copy genes or help cells move.

Time rules our lives, but take away clocks, schedules and calendars, and our bodies still march to the beat of internal timekeepers.

«We know that the timing of sleep is regulated by the body's internal biological clock, but just how this occurs has been a mystery,» says study leader Mark N. Wu, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurology, medicine, genetic medicine and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Specifically, it relies on studies that describe how light, caffeine and food affect the internal clocks which control the rhythms of our sleep, body temperature and other biological processes.

An internal clock within the kidneys plays an important role in maintaining balance within the body, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

Light intensity is detected by special cells in the retina and this information is relayed to the internal body clock, located deep in a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

Even microorganisms, which lack a nervous system, have daily cycles of activity and inactivity driven by internal body clocks known as circadian clocks.

«Our study demonstrates that subcutaneous human fat tissue has an internal clock that is able to regulate insulin sensitivity even when outside of the body.

That's because when the body's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, is thrown off, so is the immune system.

The internal body clocks, called circadian clocks, regulate the daily «rhythms» of many bodily functions, from waking and sleeping to body temperature and hunger.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found a new way that internal body clocks are regulated by a type of molecule known as long non-coding RNA.

Scientists found that mice with a faulty internal Clock (right) gained more body fat than normal mice (left).

The study's other senior author, Dr John O'Neill of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, said: «Although the clinical relevance of magnesium in various tissues is beginning to garner more attention, how magnesium regulates our body's internal clock and metabolism has simply not been considered before.

Various biological functions, such as body temperature, fluctuate daily on a regular basis because they are regulated by internal clocks.

Most of the cells in the human body have an internal clock that sets a rhythm for the activities of our organs according to the time of the day.

«Understanding a fly's body temperature may help people sleep better: Study says we share ancient molecular regulators of the brain's internal clock.»