A five - week study found that prolonged sleep restriction combined
with circadian rhythm disruption significantly decreased participants» resting metabolic rate by an average of 8 % (18).
«This suggests that resetting specific peripheral tissue clocks may be an underestimated target for restoring circadian alignment, and possibly to counteract disorders associated
with circadian rhythm disruption.»
Not exact matches
The activity - rest
rhythm was recorded in 49 patients
with advanced cancer while being given a standard chronomodulated chemotherapy cycle, which resulted in
circadian disruption.
«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly
with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies
circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.
The authors of the review suggested that cirrhosis can affect function in the area of the brain that regulates our
circadian rhythm and this explains the sleep
disruption associated
with liver disease.