{"id":148522,"date":"2022-10-19T20:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/your-body-has-an-internal-clock-that-dictates-when-you-eat-sleep-and-might-have-a-heart-attack"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:29:32","slug":"your-body-has-an-internal-clock-that-dictates-when-you-eat-sleep-and-might-have-a-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/your-body-has-an-internal-clock-that-dictates-when-you-eat-sleep-and-might-have-a-heart-attack","title":{"rendered":"Your Body Has an Internal Clock That Dictates When You Eat, Sleep and Might Have a Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8ZXOfWUbms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever suffered from jet lag or struggled after turning the clock forward or back an hour for daylight saving time? These are examples of you feeling the effects of what researchers call your <a href=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aah4965>biological clock<\/a>, or <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/circadian-rhythm\/>circadian rhythm<\/a> \u2013 the \u201cmaster pacemaker\u201d that synchronizes how your body responds to the passing of one day to the next.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cclock\u201d is made up of about <a href=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature00965>20,000 neurons<\/a> in the <a href=https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/articles\/22566-hypothalamus>hypothalamus<\/a>. This area near the center of the brain coordinates your body\u2019s unconscious functions, such as breathing and blood pressure. Humans aren\u2019t the only lifeforms that have an internal clock system: All vertebrates \u2013 or mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish \u2013 have biological clocks, as do plants, fungi, and bacteria. Biological clocks are why cats are most active at dawn and dusk, and why flowers bloom at certain times of the day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chronobiology is the study of circadian rhythms, the physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. These natural processes respond principally to light and dark and affect most living things, including animals, plants, and microbes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever suffered from jet lag or struggled after turning the clock forward or back an hour for daylight saving time? These are examples of you feeling the effects of what researchers call your biological clock, or circadian rhythm \u2013 the \u201cmaster pacemaker\u201d that synchronizes how your body responds to the passing of one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}