Many people in the Western world are heavier than ideal. Despite the wide year-round availability of healthy foods, too many of us reach for high-calorie junk food on a regular basis. Part of this is due to cost and taste, but cravings also play a huge role. A large proportion of people describe late night […]
Alcohol and Sleep: How Drinking Disrupts the Body’s Circadian Rhythm
Insomnia is an epidemic in the modern world, with stress and unusual working hours keeping many people up at night. For around 20 percent of American adults, an alcoholic beverage is a go-to relief, helping them to stop the tossing and turning. According to several studies on alcohol and sleep, this can have serious effects on […]
Why OCD Symptoms Increase as Latitude Increases
Our bodies have evolved to share quite a complex relationship with the cycles of the sun and moon, and as our lifestyles continue to move us ever more indoors, researchers are really having to unpack just how many ways sun exposure affects us. We’ve known for some time that sunlight, especially a lack of it, […]
Eating a Late Dinner Boosts Cancer Risk
Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health have found that people who eat before 9:00 p.m. or those who wait at least two hours between eating and sleeping are approximately 20 percent less likely to develop either breast or prostate cancers when compared to those individuals who eat dinner after 10:00 p.m. or who eat and […]
The Connection Between Stem Cell Circadian Rhythm and Aging
Every living organism that is exposed to sunlight possesses an internal clock set to an approximately 24-hour schedule. Day and night cycles influence every cell within our bodies. Governed by a region of the brain’s hypothalamus referred to as the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), circadian rhythms modulate cellular function and control bodily processes such as sleep-wake […]
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