Your body has an internal clock that dictates when you eat, sleep and might have a heart attack – all based on time of day | Healthly Virus
Your body has an internal clock that dictates when you eat, sleep and might have a heart attack – all based on time of day Researchers refer to your biological clock , or circadian rhythm, as the "master pacemaker" that synchronises how your body reacts to the passage of one day to the next. Anyone who has experienced jet lag or struggled after moving the clock forward or back an hour for daylight saving time is well aware of this. In the hypothalamus, the region of the brain close to the centre that regulates your body's unconscious processes like breathing and blood pressure, there are roughly 20,000 neurons that make up this "clock." Others than just humans have an internal clock system: All vertebrates, which include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, as well as plants, fungi, and bacteria, have biological clocks. Cats are most active at dawn and dusk, and flowers blossom at specific times of the day because of biological clocks. Source Circadia...