Our core physiology relies on subtle organic timers: disrupt them, and effects range from jet lag to schizophrenia. Exactly how and when life began keeping time is unclear, but a candidate for the original biological clock may solve the mystery.
Disruption of Our Biological Clocks Can Lead to Jet Lag or Schizophrenia
May 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Study Shows Immunity Influenced by Circadian Rhythms
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s common knowledge that too little sleep can increase our odds of getting sick, but a new study sheds light on just how direct the connection is. Researchers found that the body’s circadian clock controls an essential immune system gene in mice — a gene that helps the body ward off bacteria and viruses.
“People intuitively know that when their sleep patterns are disturbed, they are more likely to get sick,” study author Erol Fikrig, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, said in a press release. “It does appear that disruptions of the circadian clock influence our susceptibility to pathogens.”
Circadian rhythms in the fetus
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
PubMed.gov Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2012 Feb 5;349(1):68-75. Epub 2011 Aug 5. Serón-Ferré M, Mendez N, Abarzua-Catalan L, Vilches N, Valenzuela FJ, Reynolds HE, Llanos AJ, Rojas A, Valenzuela GJ, Torres-Farfan C. Source Programa de Fisiopatología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile. Abstract Throughout gestation, the close relationship between mothers Continue Reading …
Sleepy and Depressed
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Star.com
Malaysia
Sunday October 23, 2011
CIRCADIAN rhythm disorders driven by changes in the sleep-wake cycle has been identified as one of the major causes of depression, the fourth most disabling disease in Malaysia, affecting up to 10% of the population.
Misdiagnosis and/or sub-optimal treatment of depression and the relatively little attention paid to changes to circadian rhythms that control physical, mental and behavioural patterns that follow roughly a 24-hour cycle is further hampering treatment of this malady.
Melatonin for women
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Star Online
Malaysia
May 29, 2011
WOMEN’S WORLD By Dr NOR ASHIKIN MOKHTAK
Melatonin is a hormone produced by the body that regulates many physiological processes.
Want to Lose Weight Without Dieting? Try Melatonin
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Live in the Now
Your Guide to Natural Health
June 1, 2011
Posted by John Phillip
Melatonin is a powerful natural hormone that is well known for its association with circadian rhythms that promote a healthful sleep cycle. Now, researchers from the University of Granada reporting in the Journal of Pineal Research have found that melatonin has another remarkable benefit.
‘Blinded by Science’ explores the power of vibrational energy and water in healing and wellness
April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Natural News
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
The narrow and mechanistic way in which modern science tends to investigate and explain life, the world, and human health has robbed generations of people of a true knowledge of how these things actually work. In an up-and-coming new book Blinded by Science, author Matthew Silverstone explores how vibrational energy, water, magnetism, and plants all play a crucial role in health, and how the Western scientific method as we know it has utterly failed to grasp the critical connection between the natural world and real health.
Madness, Menstruation and Manure
April 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Blinded by Science
Chapter 3 – Introduction to The Sun and The Moon
By MATTHEW SILVERSTONE
“Whoever desires properly to investigate the art of medicine must first take into consideration the seasons of the year, and how each is capable of operating, for they not only do not resemble each other but differ widely the one from the other in the changes they bring about”.
Hippocrates, Greek physician 400 B.C.
Celtic faith has shaped our spring
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Intelligencer
Canada
By Anne Elspeth Rector, Intelligencer Writers Group
March 17, 2011
The welcome season of spring officially arrive(d) Sunday (3/20), at 7:21 p.m.
This vernal equinox is one of eight key dates in the ancient calendar of the Celts, marking crucial moments in the passage of time. Exact dates of equinoxes and solstices vary about a day or two, year to year, governed as they are by natural cycles rather than human calendar.
What is God’s MYSTERIOUS Seven Day Cycle in plants, animals and Man?
March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
BibleStudy.org
Society’s seven day calendar week is the only major rhythm of human activity that is totally oblivious to external nature. This so-called “social week” rests on mathematical regularity alone. We may casually assume that our week is really a division of the moon cycle. If that is our assumption, we forget that the lunar cycle is not a twenty-eight-day cycle, but approximately twenty-nine days, twelve hours, forty-four minutes and three seconds — or 29.5306 days between new moons. A precise quarter of the lunar cycle amounts to the uneven figure of 7.38625 days. So any week using that true length would begin at different times of the day every time the cycle started. There is just no way to neatly divide the lunar cycle into weekly blocks of complete days.
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