Sleepless nights and
disrupted body clocks could be linked to mental health conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to research by Professor Russell Foster
His team also tried the experiment in mice with
disrupted body clocks, and found consistently high levels of virus activity in these mice, regardless of the time of infection — a result with worrying implications for people with disrupted bodyclocks.
For example, the demands of a job, newborn baby or travel can
disrupt your body clock.
Research in mice has shown that insulin released after a meal can restore
a disrupted body clock.
Food could be a new weapon in shaking off the effects of jet lag after research in mice showed that the insulin released as a result of eating can be a key factor in restoring
a disrupted body clock.
In a recent post, I wrote about the science behind how blue light can
disrupt your body clock and natural circadian rhythms potentially leading to a variety of health impacts ranging from insomnia to cardiovascular disease to weight gain to mood imbalances.
A disrupted body clock can wreak havoc on your weight.
But blue light, the wavelength common in smartphones, tablets and LED lighting, is able to
disrupt the body clock.
Not exact matches
Such an early start will
disrupt anyone's
body clock, baby or not.
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 the
body clock is
disrupted your child may appear to «fight sleep,» turning nap and bedtime into a marathon wrestling match that leaves everyone even more exhausted.
Getting into a cycle of going to bed late and getting up late will change your
body clock —
disrupting your sleeping patterns and making decent rest far less likely.
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.
Mice with a
disrupted biological
clock slept less, ate more, and gained more
body fat than normal mice, indicating that, when it comes to understanding the molecular basis of obesity, timing may be key.
Humans can overrule their
body clocks, but at a price: People whose circadian rhythms are regularly
disrupted — by frequent jet lag or shift work, for example — are more vulnerable to diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
When consumed in the evening or within an hour before going to bed, caffeine
disrupts the
body's internal
clock and has negative effects on sleep.
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.
But when your
body clock is
disrupted or thrown out of balance by occasional or continuous interruptions of sleeping patterns, changes in light exposure, working the night shift regularly or other disruptions in your schedule, your natural circadian rhythms can become accelerated or slowed, leading to a cascade of physiologic impacts.
During the day, blue light can be helpful since it boosts mood, attention and reaction times, but at night when the
body is supposed to be shifting into rest mood, blue light can
disrupt the
body's internal
clock.
Habitually eating at the wrong time, which is what you actually do when you follow an erroneous intermittent fasting approach, will not only
disrupt your
body's innate
clock, but will devastate your
body's vital functions, too, leading to a cascade of side effects as your whole metabolic system gets unsynchronized.