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"Depriving yourself of natural sunlight has known health consequences, from chaotic circadian rhythms to depression. circadian rhythms are the patterns of repeated activity associated with cycles of day and night. Our internal rhythms repeat roughly every twenty-four hours, and involve the sleep-wake cycle, the ebb and flow of hormones, the rise and fall of body temperature, and other subtle rhythms that mesh with the twenty-four-hour solar day." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The hormone has been reported to produce re-entrainment of circadian rhythms after time-zone shifts, and entrainment of previously free-running rhythms in the blind (Dollins et al, 1993; Cavallo, 1993; Dahlitz et al, 1991; Arendt et al, 1988; Arendt et al, 1986). clinical trials Cancer Findings from several studies have established a link between low serum levels of melatonin and high cancer risk, through the disruption of circadian rhythms. One update to the literature examined several studies of melatonin in the treatment of advanced cancer." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"For instance, the locus coeruleus serves as the on-off switch for sleep and thus is closely tied to circadian rhythms. One of the common symptoms in people with ADHD is abnormal sleep patterns: they often have problems going to sleep or staying asleep, and they suffer sleep disturbances such as sleepwalking or sleeptalking and nightmares. Early theories about hyperactivity proposed that arousal was the chief problem, that children "bouncing off the walls" were essentially trying to keep themselves alert." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"This axis also is intimately connected with circadian rhythms, and by extension with the wake-sleep cycle. Research has shown that most living organisms, from coral polyps to human beings, are affected by the pull of magnetism from the moon and by Earth's own magnetic field. Our internal body clock is set and can be reset, not only by light, but also by magnetic fields. In bioenergetics, however, cause and effect can be less clear-cut." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "More often than not, your circadian rhythms are affected in ways that can carry serious health consequences. When your nervous system is on perpetual overdrive, you may experience a range of effects, including insomnia, personality disorders such as anxiety and attention deficit disorder, and a general immune suppression that decreases your ability to fight off colds, flu, or more serious pathogens, microbes, and toxins. The Nerve Driver Infoceutical bioenergetically addresses these nervous system issues, helping to restore system integrity." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Wiley and Bent Formby, authors of Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival, are bold enough to suggest, the onset of chronic Western diseases in a particular group of people can be traced to when electricity use became prevalent in their environment, messing with their circadian rhythms. I wouldn't disagree. As Founding Father Ben Franklin said, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." I've successfully tricked my genes into thinking it's winter by purposefully sleeping longer in the summer and have lost weight the last two summers. Just coincidence? I doubt it." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"After examining Persinger's work, I began to view intention as a vast energetic relationship involving the sun, the atmosphere, and earthly and circadian rhythms. To send intention effectively, we would have to take account of these energies. Persinger had usefully located not only the best "channel" for intention, but also the best time to turn it on. CHAPTER 8 The Right Place In 1997, William Tiller had been helping a Californian company develop a product to eliminate electromagnetic pollution. The product contained a quartz crystal, which was why they had consulted him." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Sleep-Regulating Effects: Prolonged administration of oral melatonin has reportedly induced phase-setting effects on circadian rhythms, such as the sleep-wake cycle and rest-activity. The hormone has been reported to produce re-entrainment of circadian rhythms after time-zone shifts, and entrainment of previously free-running rhythms in the blind (Dollins et al, 1993; Cavallo, 1993; Dahlitz et al, 1991; Arendt et al, 1988; Arendt et al, 1986)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"Many metabolic disorders, such as diabetes or obesity, result from irregular eating habits and can be greatly improved by matching eating times with the natural circadian rhythms. It is best to take the largest meal of the day around midday and only light meals at breakfast (no later than 8 a.m.) and dinner (no later than 7 p.m.). Eating the main meal of the day in the evening when the digestion of food is naturally weak, leads to an overload of the gastrointestinal tract with undigested, fermenting, and putrefying food." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Besides circadian rhythms, Halberg also discovered that living things keep in time with many other periodic rhythms; half-weekly, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles govern virtually every biological function. The human pulse and blood pressure, body temperature and blood clotting, circulation of lymphocytes, hormonal cycles, and other functions of the human body all appear to ebb and flow according to some basic, recurring timetable. These rhythms are not unique to humans, but are present throughout nature, and evident even in fossils of single-cell organisms that existed millions of years ago." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Changing your diet, nutrient levels, circadian rhythms or sleep patterns, the substances you use, the amount of exercise or playtime you have, getting rid of toxins in your system, balancing your hormones, correcting imbalances in your digestive tract, boosting your cells' ability to produce energy, and fixing food sensitivities or allergies can all radically transform your mood and brain function. With that in mind, consider the following: •I- Can lifelong depression be cured? •b Can children completely recover from autism? -;?Can dementia be reversed? Conventional medical wisdom says no." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"This study, involving 144 patients, concluded that coenzyme Qio treatment caused a significant decrease in the circadian rhythms of cardiac events and lowered risk factors for heart attack. As you will see, since protective benefits of coenzyme Qiq treatment were observed in the myocardial protection-cardiac surgery data, the use of coenzyme Qio appears warranted in any case of acute coronary insufficiency—whether from angina, heart attack, congestive heart failure, PTCA, or CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting) procedures." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"When you disrupt your natural sleep/wake cycles, the body's biological rhythms desynchronize with the larger circadian rhythms that are controlled by the daily periods of darkness and light. This can lead to numerous types of disorders, including chronic liver disease, respiratory ailments, heart trouble, and cancer. One of the pineal gland's most powerful hormones is the neurotransmitter melatonin. The secretion of melatonin starts between 9:30-10:30 p.m. (depending on age), inducing sleepiness. It reaches peak levels between 1-2 a.m. and drops to its lowest levels at midday." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Any deviation from the circadian rhythms causes abnormal secretions of these important brain hormones. This, in turn, leads to disturbed biological rhythms, which can upset the harmonious functioning of the entire organism, including digestion, metabolism and endocrine balance. Suddenly, you may feel "out The underlying imbalance consists of a relative excess of estrogen and an absolute deficiency in progesterone of synch" and become susceptible to a wide variety of disorders, ranging from a simple headache, bloating, and indigestion to depression and a fully grown tumor." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "All physical activities in the body are naturally aligned with and depend on the schedule dictated by the circadian rhythms. Having regular meal times makes it easy for the body to prepare for the production and secretion of the right amounts of digestive juices for each meal. Irregular eating habits, on the other hand, confuse the body. Furthermore, its digestive power becomes depleted by having to adjust to a different schedule each time you eat." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Gray area in top box shows peak of cycle; grey area in bottom box shows sleeps Therapeutic experience suggests that behavioral states are usually linked to daily (circadian) rhythms, or to periodic, several-times-perday (ultradian) rhythms. circadian rhythms follow the 24-hour clock, subject to the modifications of circumstance. Ultradian rhythms are briefer rhythms coordinated within circadian rhythms. They last about 90 to 120 minutes, and correlate with measures of our energy level such as blood glucose, metabolic rate, hormone release, and insulin production." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"And continue not to confuse your circadian rhythms by watching TV late into the night. • Take a long bath to relax. A bath is a wonderful and easy way to remove tension from and relax the muscles. Use Epsom salts—magnesium sulfate, which is absorbed by the skin, reduces inflammation and restores balance. O And if watching your breath helped prepare you for sleep last night, try it again! RESTORE YOURSELF I am a huge fan of yoga and what it can do for the body. I have been practicing yoga for almost twenty years." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "Sleeping in a cooler bedroom supports our circadian rhythms. As we have discussed, from the beginning of time, people have awakened to morning light and fallen asleep in evening darkness. This is the normal cycle: energized during the day and sleepy at night. Part of the internal body clock's system is to change temperature. Here's how it works: As the day progresses, our body temperature, which starts out low, begins to rise, as does our metabolism." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Magnetite crystals in human hippocampus Magnetite microcrystals have been linked to our ultradian and circadian rhythms. We demonstrate this effect every time we fly a great distance and experience jet lag, as our body's circadian rhythms adapt to a new diurnal pattern, and a reorientation of our personal electromagnetic field (or EMF) to the patterns of the Earth's electromagnetic field that are unique to our new location. "In samples of human brain tissue cultured in labs, minute amounts of electromagnetic energy can affect brain tissue production of norepinephrine." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"My guess is that you will find that eating in rhythm with your body's circadian rhythms will come naturally—because you are reflecting and feeding your biological needs! And, as you are, I hope, beginning to experience, when you get back to your natural rhythm, you get back to your more essential self, and Spent dissipates. As I've mentioned before, in the back of this book—and at www .spentmd.com—there are dozens of recipes for salads and meals that are designed for this rhythm of eating, including my favorite snack recipes." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "Every system in the body is affected by circadian rhythms.2 And just as "official" clocks are set precisely to Greenwich Mean Time, our body clocks are set precisely to these natural rhythms. Science has shown clear patterns of brain wave activity, hormone production, enzyme production, cell regeneration, and other biological activities, each linked to these daily rhythms.3 As Homo sapiens, we are physically and mentally designed to eat natural and seasonal foods from our nearby environs and exercise in spurts?exert, rest, recover, exert, and so on." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"SeOKCt SdlSOK The pineal gland, which senses when we're exposed to light has cells that resemble those in the back of the retina and dictate our circadian rhythms. The human eye also receives the light and sends ft to the occipital brain area, which then relays ft to the pineal. FACTOIP Most Americans are too chronically sleep deprived to awaken without an alarm. Need for an alarm by definition signals some kind of danger. young animals quickens the aging process. Mice with new pineals lived 25 percent longer, but we're yet unable to determine if the same statistics would be true for humans." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"The following adaptogens help relieve the symptoms of jet lag, which is caused by a disruption of the body's circadian rhythms: American ginseng, Asian ginseng, eleuthero, jiaogulan, rhaponticum, and rhodiola. Adaptogen Notes • American ginseng helps people with insomnia that is associated with chronic fatigue syndrome. • Ashwagandha is a calming adaptogen and traditionally is used for insomnia and nervous conditions. • Eleuthero improves sleep quality and prevents nighttime waking." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"Ultradian rhythms are briefer rhythms coordinated within circadian rhythms. They last about 90 to 120 minutes, and correlate with measures of our energy level such as blood glucose, metabolic rate, hormone release, and insulin production.16 Peak activity of the left and right hemispheres of our brains also alternate according to 90- to 120-min-ute ultradian rhythms,17 and when we go to sleep, REM or dreaming periods follow a similar schedule." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) "We demonstrate this effect every time we fly a great distance and experience jet lag, as our body's circadian rhythms adapt to a new diurnal pattern, and a reorientation of our personal electromagnetic field (or EMF) to the patterns of the Earth's electromagnetic field that are unique to our new location. "In samples of human brain tissue cultured in labs, minute amounts of electromagnetic energy can affect brain tissue production of norepinephrine." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Cancer Findings from several studies have established a link between low serum levels of melatonin and high cancer risk, through the disruption of circadian rhythms. One update to the literature examined several studies of melatonin in the treatment of advanced cancer. In one randomized, controlled trial mentioned involving 30 patients with colorectal cancer, subjects received treatment with irinotecan alone (n=16) or with concomitant oral melatonin (20 mg/day, administered in the evening)." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"All tasks are naturally aligned with and dependent on the schedule dictated by the circadian rhythms. Having regular mealtimes makes it easy for the body to prepare for the production and secretion of the right amounts of digestive juices for each meal. Irregular eating habits, on the other hand, confuse the body. Furthermore, its digestive power becomes depleted by having to adjust to a different mealtime each time you eat. Skipping meals here and there, eating at different times, or eating between meals especially disrupts the cycles of bile production by the liver cells." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"In human beings, it likely senses light through special receptors in the backs of our eyes that don't actually provide vision but do dictate our circadian rhythms. Even the blind have this rhythm, indicating that our pineals along with other neurological inputs can substitute for these special cells in our eye. white noise or meditation-type music can help. So can separate bedrooms. We know that the pineal gland plays a role in aging because research has shown that putting young pineal glands in old animals helps reverse aging." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Like most other functions in the body, the digestive process is controlled by circadian rhythms. The secretions of bile and other digestive juices peak at midday and are at their lowest during the night. For this reason, it is best to eat the largest meal of the day at around midday and take relatively light meals at breakfast and dinner times. This enables the body to digest the ingested food efficiently and absorb the appropriate amount of nutrients necessary for the maintenance of all bodily functions." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

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