How Food Regulates Clocks in Different Organs

There are somewhere between 3000 to 5000 genes that turn on a certain time of the day or night. Time when we eat tells our liver clock when to turn on the genes and when to turn up. The light has very little impact, we cannot say no impact, very little impact on these cycling genes in liver. Almost every organ in our periphery outside the brain kind of follows when we eat. Those two determine how our body clocks work.

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