How eating to your body clock can lead to better health
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Although they did see a “little bit” of weight loss among participants, the improvements occurred despite the unchanged energy intake, which Heilbronn believes was the result of “aligning” their circadian rhythms.
Our body clock, or circadian rhythm, is a 24-hour biological cycle that drives everything from digestion to when we wake and sleep, our hormone levels and our muscle strength. Our body clock is influenced by light and dark, but also by the timing of our meals.
“Basically, you’ve got the clock in your brain and then clocks that occur in your tissues – your pancreas, your muscles and your fats and your other systems – are driven more by the feeding signals than they are by the brain signals,” Heilbronn says.
Our body clock is influenced by light and dark, but also by the timing of our meals.
When the brain’s clock, based on light and sleep patterns, and our body’s clock, based on eating signals, are out of sync – if we eat when our body thinks it should be sleeping, for example – it puts our health out of whack.
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