Learn more about how sleep impacts your health.

1. An Overview of How
Your Sleep and
Biological Clock
Affect Your Health
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2. • Prodigious biomedical research efforts into
sleep, the natural daily period of sustained
cessation of locomotor activity and overt
consciousness, have defined a multitude of
functions of this biological activity that regulate
the life-long physical and mental health of the
individual in numerous ways.
• Sleep is the simple term for a very complex
biological process involving multiple neural
circuits in the brain that are orchestrated by
circadian rhythm activities within the biological
clock pacemaker system for the body, primarily
located in the hypothalamus.

3. The role of sleep in our overall health
• One such mechanism by which sleep
regulates health appears to be that the
neurophysiological activity of sleep,
regulated by the biological clock, in turn
programs the biological clock system to
operate “normally”. The import herein is
that the biological clock regulates all
the major activities of the body such as
behavior, metabolism, reproduction, and
immunity.

4. The role of sleep in our overall health
• Sustained disruptions to normal input
signals to the biological clock system
(perceived as “stress” by this neural
clock network system) by any means
(e.g., sustained altered sleep patterns,
biochemical or environmental
manipulation) alter regulatory output
signals from the clock system to the
body that can lead to major biological
disturbances throughout the body.

5. The role of sleep in our overall health
• Indeed sleep alterations such as
reduced sleep, extended sleep, sleep
apnea, and altered sleep patterns
associated with shift work have all been
associated with serious cardiometabolic
disease. Moreover, studies indicate that
the duration of sleep as well as the
quality of sleep are each important
factors in regulating metabolic health.

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