2014/07/17 by Dominika Kanikowska, Maki Sato, Janusz Witowski
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Circadian rhythm and melatonin #Dietary Effects on Health #Sleep and Wakefulness Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00484-014-0871-z
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While the significance of obesity as a serious health problem is well recognized, little is known about whether and how biometerological factors and biorhythms causally contribute to obesity. Obesity is often associated with altered seasonal and daily rhythmicity in food intake, metabolism and adipose tissue function. Environmental stimuli affect both seasonal and daily rhythms, and the latter are under additional control of internal molecular oscillators, or body clocks. Modifications of clock genes in animals and changes to normal daily rhythms in humans (as in shift work and sleep deprivation) result in metabolic dysregulation that favours weight gain. Here, we briefly review the potential links between biorhythms and obesity in humans.