SLEEP: How Understanding Your Body’s Clock Can Revolutionize Your Health
The Next Big Idea
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What Is the Master Clock?
In the late 80s, Swiss scientist Uli Shibleh showed that different cells were capable of generating a circadian rhythm. And almost overnight, our view of circadian organization had changed from this master clock forcing rhythmicity on the rest of the body to a master clock coordinating the rhythmic activity of billions and billions of individual cellular clocks. We call the clock the body clock. Well actually, it's really a circadian system, an entire sort of architecture of time throughout our bodies which is just so extraordinary.
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