13 April 2016
In sync: How to take control of your many body clocks
You have not one, but thousands or even millions of body clocks. Learn to control them, and you can tackle problems from jet lag to weight loss
By Catherine de Lange
GERDA POT’S grandmother was a stickler for timekeeping. “She always had breakfast at the same time, lunch and dinner at the same time, but even in between she had tea and coffee breaks every day at the same time,” says Pot. She also aged robustly, living independently well into her 90s. That got Pot wondering: was there something in the regularity of her grandmother’s habits that held the key to her rude health?
A nutrition researcher at King’s College London, Pot was better placed than most to investigate – and she soon found she wasn’t the first to ask such questions. She had stumbled into the field of chrononutrition, and is now one of a growing number shedding light on the misunderstood role of time in human biology.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23030690-300-in-sync-how-to-take-control-of-your-many-body-clocks/
