Your Body Clock: How to Align Your Circadian Rhythms for Better Health and Performance | Greg Potter (Solo Episode)
Reason & Wellbeing
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The Role of Clocks in the Evolution of Life
Michaela How: Clocks help us adapt to changes in the environment. She says mice with near 24 hour body clocks survived longer and were more likely to reproduce than mice that had very fast clocks as a result of a gene mutation That speeds up the clock. Michaela How: In evolutionary biology there are certain stresses that can actually potentially cause animals to switch between temporal niches at least some animals. The research on this goes way back. There was some work showing that food consumption can influence the biological clock"
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