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- noun The study of the effects of time and rhythmical phenomena on life processes.
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- noun biology The study of the effects of
time onbiological systems , especially the effects ofperiodicity
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Examples
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Sure enough there was a field called chronobiology, the science that examines cyclical phenomena in living organisms.
Dr. Frank Lipman: Feeling Spent? 5 Easy Ways To Overcome Exhaustion 2010
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It's called chronobiology, or the study of time and life rhythms of the body.
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The real answer lies in circadian and circannual rhythmicity, chronobiology, evolution vs. modern life.
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Even in medical circles, chronobiology, the study of physiological rhythm is consistently underrated.
Dr. Frank Lipman: Feeling Spent? 5 Easy Ways To Overcome Exhaustion 2010
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In the eating at night experiments with mice, what the scientists were trying to determing is how biorhythms, chronobiology, and circadian inner clocks influence eating habilts.
You'll have a greatly increased risk of weight gain if you eat at night 2009
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The research results would be applied to the study of excess weight loss strategies based on timing meals according to your individual chronobiology or circadian rhythms.
You'll have a greatly increased risk of weight gain if you eat at night 2009
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Wise food and chronobiology traditions reveal that what is certain is that the person you are in the morning is different from the one you are at night.
You'll have a greatly increased risk of weight gain if you eat at night 2009
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For those wanting to know more about the area, you could do far worse than go to the insightful and informative blog Circadiana, for which chronobiology is a focus of interest.
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"Schizophrenics have too much dopamine activity in the brain so their clock is so fast that it feels like the whole world is crazy" - wtf? but is otherwise an interesting look at chronobiology - the science of biological time perception.
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"Schizophrenics have too much dopamine activity in the brain so their clock is so fast that it feels like the whole world is crazy" - wtf? but is otherwise an interesting look at chronobiology - the science of biological time perception.
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