The body clock, with Prof Russell Foster
Instant Genius
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Is the Metabolism Controlled by the Inn System?
The immune system is turned up during the day when we're most likely to encounter pathagans from other people or moving around the environment, and turned down at night. A vaccination that was given in the morning produced an antibody response threefold greater in the morning compared to the afternoon. If you are getting a sort of sleep in, sicadian rhythm, dieruption, then the effectiveness of a vaccine becomes much worse.
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