Circadian Rhythms
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How to Uncouple the Cacadian Clock in Rats
Stea. Rosond and some really fascinating studies in enrodence have been able to n uncouple a the various, various bits ofthe cacadian system. So light detected by the eye hits the clock, sets the c n however if you feed rats in the middle of the day when they'd normally be asleep,. just for two hours. Then what's turned out to be really fascinating is that the liver clock and the gut clocks actually move in time. They uncouple themselves from the master clock in the brain and move to that particular feeding rhythm. Whateer the riths againg in ai make of that, well, i think thit's a an enormous mount
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