Sentences with phrase «regulated internal clock»

All organisms, from mammals to fungi, have daily cycles controlled by a tightly regulated internal clock, called the circadian clock.

Many say that timing things (sometimes down to the minute) and being extremely consistent help their baby regulate her internal clock and gives her the structure she needs to thrive.

Most electronic devices use vibrating crystals to regulate their internal clocks, but the frequency of these crystals can vary with factors like temperature and humidity.

You can also ask your doctor about taking melatonin, a synthetic version of the brain's sleep - inducing hormone, key in regulating your internal clock.

Bright light tells your body it is time to wake up and can help you regulate your internal clock.

Melatonin is a hormone that helps regulate your internal clock.

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

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

Your internal biological clock helps regulate your sleep and wake cycles.

Newborns have not yet developed their circadian rhythm, the internal biological clock which regulates our day and night cycles, so they tend to lack a pattern in the way they sleep.

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.

«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.

The Cellular Counter More than 50 years ago, a researcher uncovered the first clues that an internal biological clock might regulate age — and that it's not just the daily assaults from the external wear and tear of life that cause us to wither and eventually die.

«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.

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.

Almost all animals have a circadian clock — an internal timer regulated by light that helps synchronise their lives to a 24 - hour cycle.

He asked Moore, a circadian rhythm expert, to look at the spiders» internal clocks that regulate their daily activities.

Many animals, including humans, have internal clocks and calendars to help them regulate behavior, physiological functions and biological processes.

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.

Researchers hit the jackpot this year in understanding how light resets the circadian clock, our internal timepiece that regulates daily patterns of behavior and physiology.

The body's internal clock helps to regulate a water - storing hormone so that nightly dehydration or trips to the toilet are not the norm, research with rats suggests.

Melatonin is key in regulating your body's internal clock, also known as your circadian rhythm, says Andrew Westwood, M.D., a board - certified sleep physician and assistant professor at Columbia University.

Melatonin, known as the sleep hormone, helps regulate other hormones as well as our circadian rhythms — that «internal» clock we all have that determines when we fall asleep and wake.

Age - old wisdom says that going to sleep at the same time every day ensures the optimal functioning of your body's built - in internal or biological clock which regulates the periods of sleepiness and wakefulness throughout the day by releasing adequate hormones.

The circadian rhythm is an internal 24 - hour clock that regulates when we fall asleep and wake up.

Our body is regulated by the internal clock that sets the hormonal rhythm.

These changes are regulated by your body's internal clock, also known as the circadian rhythm.

A hormone secreted by the pineal gland in the brain, melatonin regulates the body's circadian rhythm (the internal clock that plays an important role in when we fall asleep and when we wake up).

While there has been no evidence of plasma melatonin levels in human brains being increased by the consumption of any food item, there is a debate that melatonin has the ability to regulate the internal or body clock.

When it's dark, however, your body produces more melatonin, the hormone that helps regulate your internal body clock, so you can fall asleep faster.

Supplements: Magnesium helps your body keep its internal clock in check, which in turn helps regulate proper hormone production throughout the day.

«We have an internal clock that regulates a variety of biological processes,» says Lipsitz.