Tag: Chronic circadian rhythm disturbances

• The Body’s Clock

  Scientists –well, all of us- have been suspicious about the health risks of shift work for a long time now. Perhaps there is a reason buried somewhere in our genes that suggests night is for sleeping and daytime for working. Originally, no doubt, it was because it was difficult to see things in the dark…

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  July 23, 2015

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  body clock, BRCA mutations, breast cancer, Chronic circadian rhythm disturbances, circadian rhythm, commercial pilots, Current Biology, darkness, entrainment, flight attendants, habits, jetlag, Kirsten Van Dycke, light, light/dark cycles, Macbeth, obesity, Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Shift work, sleep disturbance, type 2 diabetes, Zeitgeber