As COVID-19 and its related variants continue to be a global health concern, researchers are hard at work seeking potential protections and solutions. After all, even people who have taken the anti-COVID shots can still come down with COVID-19. Intriguing new research suggests that melatonin affects COVID-19 mortality rate, sepsis and thrombosis. Melatonin, a hormone […]
Poor Sleep-Wake Cycles Could Be a Risk Factor for Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease with no known cure. Treating the sleep disorders associated with Parkinson’s may offer hope. Parkinson’s disease is caused by a loss of the ability of neurons in the brain to make dopamine, a neurotransmitter that aids in cognitive function, emotional control, motor coordination and a variety of other vital […]
Reduction of Oxygen for a Short Duration May Reset Circadian Rhythm
Reducing oxygen is generally considered bad for the health. However, new research suggests that doing so for a short period of time may reset one’s circadian rhythm. Most people have suffered from jet lag at some point in their lives. The cause of jet lag is simple: A disruption of the circadian rhythm. Curing jet […]
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 […]
Time-Restricted Diets Could Help Fight Obesity: A Chronobiological Study
Losing weight may just be a matter of time—literally! Chronobiology, a growing field of biological sciences, studies the difference between the internal processes that take place in the bodies of living organisms and compares how these processes react during the daylight and during nighttime. Recent research by renowned chronobiologist Dr. Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor at the […]
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