We have trillions of body clocks – a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here’s how they work with light to control our health.
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Nighttime is much more than a source of danger or an occasion to party – it’s a portal into a different world, with rhythms, challenges and lifestyles of its own.
We have all experienced pain becoming more unbearable at night. The absence of stimuli and the influence of circadian rhythms could explain this phenomenon.
It’s all to do with the light from the Sun and a blanket of air wrapped around Earth called the ‘atmosphere’.
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Investigadora Ramón y Cajal (Psicología), Universidad de Málaga
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Associate Professor, Physiology of Circadian Rhythms, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland