Food can reset disturbed sleeping cycles
What and when we eat can alter our circadian clock system“ or sleeping cycle“ and boost health, prevent obesity and increase life expectancy, researchers have found.
Writing in the British Journal of Nutrition, the researchers from the University of Southampton also noted a reverse effect in that a disrupted sleeping cycle could lead to, attenuated circadian feeding rhythms, along with, hyperphagia, GI pathologies, metabolic disease and reduced life expectancy.
As food components and feeding time have the ability to reset biological rhythms, it is of paramount importance to understand the relationship between food, feeding and the circadian clock system, they wrote.
In so doing, we may be able to use food or feeding times as a therapeutic intervention to reset or re-entrain the circadian clock system for better functionality of physiological systems, preventing obesity, promoting well-being and extending lifespan.
The researchers suggested oscillations in the gene and protein components in the endogenous molecular clock network modulate circadian rhythms in physiological and metabolic outputs.
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