Sentences with phrase «disrupt circadian timing»

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We are watching television late at night with the bright blue light in our faces that disrupts our circadian rhythm (aka our brain's time clock).

Johanna Meijer of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and her team found that the mice — and their disrupted circadian rhythms — recovered when dark night - times were restored.

Last year, the American Medical Association confirmed that night - time lighting can exacerbate obesity, diabetes, depression and reproductive problems, by disrupting circadian rhythms (see «Night special: Why they call it the graveyard shift «-RRB-.

The favoured theory blames disrupted circadian rhythms, set by a body clock whose timing is thrown out of kilter in autumn by the sudden shortening of the day.

Night time shift work disrupts the normal sleep - wake cycle and our internal circadian (24 - hour) rhythms, and has been associated with significant health problems, such as a higher risk of heart disease and cancer.

Times zone changes, foreign beds, hotel rooms, and a different climate can disrupt sleep, which means the body's circadian rhythms (24 - hour sleep - wake cycle) are toyed with.

When we travel across time zones, we disrupt our circadian rhythm, and this leads to an abnormally high and improperly timed release of the hormone cortisol.

Jet lag occurs when that body clock is disrupted when transitioning through time zones, disrupting our circadian rhythm, and can often take a few days to rectify.

When we cross time zones and are exposed to light during our normal bedtime, our melatonin cycles are disrupted, resulting in jet lag until our circadian rhythm gets in sync with the new time zone.