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Biological clock striking incorrectly?


Thanks to research from the University of Groningen there is an explosion of knowledge of molecular and fysiological patterns of biological timing and clock systems. Society appears to ignore this and to aspire to a 24-hour society without seasons, without time of the day.  

According to the department of Cellular Biology our society plays for high stakes by ignoring our internal rhythm that synchornises with cosmic phenomenons of the day, season and year. We neglect the possible timing of things: our optimal performance at work, heath and the acquiring of knowledge and even in aging. Let’s take for example shift work. Shift work means a health risk and asks for serious attention. Education and medical care could be optimized too: do justice to the chronotypes of mankind. Shutting our daylight means decay in the entire medical care sector.

 


Biological clock striking incorrectly because of summer time

Sleep researcher Marijke Gordijn wonders the usefulness of the summer time. This switch disturbs for a few days the biological clock, although little is known about the consequences. Men are therefore more weary and less alert. Children have even bigger adaptation problems. Read further... 


Onderzoek naar biologische klok
Er werken in Nederland een miljoen mensen 's nachts. Wat betekent dit voor hun welzijn en gezondheid? Hoogleraar chronobiologie Menno Gerkema vertelt over zijn onderzoek naar de biologische klok. Bekijk de film....

Opinie: 'Nut van zomertijd is niet duidelijk'
Het merendeel van de Nederlanders is tevreden met de zomertijd, maar er zijn ook tegenstanders die de zomertijd graag willen afschaffen. Slaaponderzoeker Marijke Gordijn vindt dat niet nodig, maar constateert wel dat er erg weinig bekend is over de voor- en nadelen. Lees verder....

Prof. Martha Merrow: 'Teenagers victims of their biological clock'
Adolescents are lazy, stay out far too late and then can’t be got out of bed in the mornings. Just teenage recalcitrance? Not according to Martha Merrow, an expert on the biological clock and the resulting behaviour. ‘Adolescents are usually evening people in the extreme as a result of the developments their biological clocks are going through. Schools should learn to take this into account. For example by letting the school day start later.’


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