Now investigators have discovered that a five-hour delay in meal time causes a five-hour delay in blood glucose rhythms. "This work is important because it demonstrates for the first time that a relatively subtle change of standard human feeding pattern re-synchronizes key metabolic rhythms in the body." While the study introduces the idea of adding meal timing to the clock reset toolkit, the practical details of how to do so still need to be worked out. Key regulators of human circadian rhythms, the light-dark and sleep-wake cycles, didn't change. The study suggests that meal timing can indeed be effective in synchronizing a body clock, Scheer said.

Source: CBC News June 01, 2017 21:33 UTC