In a study involving more than 3,000 men and women performed by scientists in Sweden and France, participants whose work hours weren’t the typical “9-to-5” were found to exhibit impairments in both long- and short-term memory, brain processing speed and cognitive function. Like chronic jet lag, shift work can throw the body’s circadian rhythm, or […]
How Shift Work Negatively Affects Our Biological Rhythms
Modern industries keep people working around the clock. Outside of the general nine-to-five grind, shift workers exist. These people work late hours, rotate their hours from week to week, or try to work on through until dawn. As they consume one cup of coffee after another to keep their REM pressure at bay, the constant […]
Daylight Saving Time: 60 Minutes is No Small Change
When we gain an hour the first Sunday in November due to the return to standard time, our internal clock is better able to adjust than it is in the spring when daylight saving causes us to lose an hour of sleep. The German chronobiologist Dr. Jan-Dirk Fauteck has evaluated scientific data on this biannual […]
Welcome to the Chronobiology Blog!
Join us on a journey to explore a breakthrough field of medicine that will change the way you think about your body, disease and healing forever… Chronobiology is an amazing scientific field that examines the body’s natural biological rhythms and the effect of time on these natural cycles, as well as the cycles of disease. […]
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