I signed up for the app after I heard a podcast that paying attention to when we eat, sleep and exercise can recover to full life after cancer treatment. The app and the blogs opened my eyes to how my lifestylehad no healthy pattern. Now I eat and sleep consistently at the same time and maintain a 14 h daily fast at night. I have lost weight, feel more energetic and the brain fog has gone. - Marian

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This isn't false per se, but it needs to be taken into context. There are many kinds of artificial sweeteners and they shouldn't be lumped together. Only some have found to have an effect on the microbiome (Ruiz-Ojeda, 2019). In addition, many use incredibly unrealistic dosages, for example, the equivalent of 8L of diet coke per day (Harpaz, 2018). We can't assume a similar effect with moderate consumption. Now, in The Circadian Code, this new science is revealed, showing that the timings of our day (when we eat, sleep, exercise, work) are more crucial than we ever thought before. And that, most importantly, if your daily schedule is out of sync with your circadian rhythms, you can fix it!Feeding-fasting patterns are external cues that profoundly influence the robustness of daily biological rhythms. I’M TYPING this bleary-eyed at 4:30 AM on Saturday in Zurich, Switzerland I’m reminded of how circadian rhythms effect our body, for good or ill. Lie JA, Roessink J, Kjaerheim K (February 2006). "Breast cancer and night work among Norwegian nurses". Cancer Causes & Control. 17 (1): 39–44. doi: 10.1007/s10552-005-3639-2. PMID 16411051. S2CID 6281682.

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Welsh DK, Takahashi JS, Kay SA (March 2010). "Suprachiasmatic nucleus: cell autonomy and network properties". Annual Review of Physiology. 72: 551–77. doi: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-021909-135919. PMC 3758475. PMID 20148688. Avivi A, Oster H, Joel A, Beiles A, Albrecht U, Nevo E (September 2002). "Circadian genes in a blind subterranean mammal II: conservation and uniqueness of the three Period homologs in the blind subterranean mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (18): 11718–23. Bibcode: 2002PNAS...9911718A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.182423299. PMC 129335. PMID 12193657. In recent years, we’ve learned so much about the primacy of circadian rhythm. Satchin Panda, one of the field’s most influential scientists, takes us from the knowledge base to practical impact in our day to day lifestyle in The Circadian Code. Mizoguchi T, Wright L, Fujiwara S, Cremer F, Lee K, Onouchi H, etal. (August 2005). "Distinct roles of GIGANTEA in promoting flowering and regulating circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis". The Plant Cell. 17 (8): 2255–2270. doi: 10.1105/tpc.105.033464. PMC 1182487. PMID 16006578.In 2017, Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael W. Young, and Michael Rosbash were awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm". [160] [161] Grote L, Mayer J, Penzel T, Cassel W, Krzyzanek E, Peter JH, von Wichert P (1994). "Nocturnal hypertension and cardiovascular risk: consequences for diagnosis and treatment". Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 24 (Suppl 2): S26–S38. doi: 10.1097/00005344-199412001-00006. PMID 7898092. Switch on mobile phone apps that reduce blue light – these come as standard on android and iphones in latest updates, otherwise search for “Blue light filter”. Changes to the circadian rhythm and sleep occur once an individual begins abusing drugs and alcohol. Once an individual chooses to stop using drugs and alcohol, the circadian rhythm continues to be disrupted. [127] The rhythm has an endogenous free-running period that lasts approximately 24 hours. The rhythm persists in constant conditions, i.e. constant darkness, with a period of about 24 hours. The period of the rhythm in constant conditions is called the free-running period and is denoted by the Greek letter τ (tau). The rationale for this criterion is to distinguish circadian rhythms from simple responses to daily external cues. A rhythm cannot be said to be endogenous unless it has been tested and persists in conditions without external periodic input. In diurnal animals (active during daylight hours), in general τ is slightly greater than 24 hours, whereas, in nocturnal animals (active at night), in general τ is shorter than 24 hours.

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Lighting requirements for circadian regulation are not simply the same as those for vision; planning of indoor lighting in offices and institutions is beginning to take this into account. [121] Animal studies on the effects of light in laboratory conditions have until recently considered light intensity ( irradiance) but not color, which can be shown to "act as an essential regulator of biological timing in more natural settings". [122] This claim is repeated throughout the book in several forms, but they are all wrong. They are based on an oversimplified model of how insulin works. Insulin response isn’t only dependent on the frequency of feeding. Yes, you will burn fat from reduced insulin while fasting, but if your eating frequency/window is smaller, you will just have a much bigger fat formation when you do eat, and in a 24h period, the effect is the same (Krieger, 2010). In a separate but similar claim, he also states that fasted cardio burns more fat. This is also wrong (Schoenfeld, 2014). Disruption to rhythms usually has a negative effect. Many travelers have experienced the condition known as jet lag, with its associated symptoms of fatigue, disorientation and insomnia. [129]unreliable medical source?] Shneerson JM, Ohayon MM, Carskadon MA (2007). "Circadian rhythms". Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Armenian Medical Network . Retrieved 2007-09-19. Halberg F, Carandente F, Cornelissen G, Katinas GS (1977). "[Glossary of chronobiology (author's transl)]". Chronobiologia. 4 (Suppl 1): 1–189. PMID 352650. unreliable medical source?] Duffy JF, Wright KP (August 2005). "Entrainment of the human circadian system by light". Journal of Biological Rhythms. 20 (4): 326–38. doi: 10.1177/0748730405277983. PMID 16077152. S2CID 20140030. a b Martino TA, Oudit GY, Herzenberg AM, Tata N, Koletar MM, Kabir GM, etal. (May 2008). "Circadian rhythm disorganization produces profound cardiovascular and renal disease in hamsters". American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 294 (5): R1675–R1683. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00829.2007. PMID 18272659. S2CID 13356393.