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Your body follows a circadian rhythm that influences everything from how well your medications work to the best time for exercise.
Healthy eating is not just what you eat, but when you eat. Eating rhythms that are in sync with the circadian clock can benefit general well-being and may have a protective effect against mental illness.
If replicated in humans, these findings could mean that targeting or boosting the circadian rhythm in Alzheimer’s patients, could help with managing the disease
Dusk is a dangerous time of day for hitting wildlife on the road, and the one-hour time change means more drivers are out while deer are at their most active and visibility is dropping.
The increasing prevalence of white LED streetlamps spells worrying population declines for insects like moths.
Our immune system is controlled by our “body clock” – an intricate 24-hour system which controls how cells function.
Springing forward for daylight saving time will be especially hard this year due to sleep loss from COVID-19. Why does the US keep doing this?
Time changes make many people feel tired, irritable, and unable to sleep.
Frequent disruption of our internal ‘body clock’ is linked to type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the relationship eating time and circadian rhythm have on our body weight.
The time at home from the coronavirus crisis could be an opportunity to let our natural sleep rhythms take over.
Many baby books promote sleep-training methods that involve leaving babies to cry at night. But there are gentler ways to get a good night’s sleep.
Daylight saving time starts this weekend, and it can often be the beginning of new dramas getting kids to bed. Here’s how to make the transition a little smoother.
Breast milk contains ingredients in concentrations that change over the course of the day. Researchers think milk is chrononutrition, carrying molecular messages to help set a baby’s internal clock.
Researchers find 351 genetic variants associated with a person’s chronotype. Before this study, we knew of only 24.
The old saying ‘the early bird catches the worm’ might be especially fitting when it comes to peak mental and physical performance.
Daylight saving time begins this weekend, which means many of us will get an hour less sleep. But the health effects go beyond sleep – and can last two weeks or more. Here’s what the research says.
A recent study suggested that a chemical responsible for getting the body ready for sleep was suppressed in children by too much evening light. A circadian rhythm expert explains the dangers.
Pity the poor night owls of the world, who already must adjust to a life that doesn’t align with their natural sleep patterns. Now it appears that being a night owl even raises the risk of death.
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Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Vice Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Management, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor in Physiology and Metabolism, University of Bradford
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Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Personal Chair in Nutrition, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Chronobiology, University of Surrey
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Research fellow in sleep, circadian rhythms and neuroimaging, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter
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Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
