Time rules life, and body clock medicine is back. New research is reviving interest in body clock health and performance, letting a public habituated to a “time free”24/7 lifestyle recognize their internal time can no more be ignored than their heart, muscle and brain. Diet and cancer are two prominent areas for body clock research. But will […]
It’s About Time
Timed Lives Time rules life, and body clocks direct and define much of yours. Twenty-four hour (circadian) clocks continue to be implicated in most aspects of human health, joy, and performance. A recent British study out of the UK Biobank of 91000 people recently refocused attention on how disruptions in body clocks play out in depression and […]
When Sleep Is Not Enough
When You Can’t Sleep Like depression, insomnia used to be treated as a symptom of “something else.” Not anymore. At this year’s national sleep meetings in Denver, it became clearer how big a national and international problem insomnia is – as well as how to fix it. As insomnia researcher Charles Morin pointed out, the […]
Timing Your Life
Time rules life, how it’s lived and performed. Time and our inner clocks make most of our lives possible. Consider the monarch butterflies that unerringly cross Canada, the United States, and as good citizens of these NAFTA states, direct themselves to the same valley in central Mexico. How do they do navigate so brilliantly? They use […]
Going Sleepless to War
Sleepless in Seattle War is hell, said General William Tecumseh Sherman, whose 1864 march to the sea changed the course of American and military history. And the practice of war, even in “peacetime” can be hell on the human body. That is the lesson of a panel at this year’s national sleep meetings in Seattle, […]