"The sun is our most powerful zeitgeber, as chronobiologists call it, meaning 'time-giver' in German. Just as the clock on my grandmother’s mantle had to be wound with a key each day as it began to run down, so our internal clocks are kept running at the appropriate speed by daily exposure to light and darkness in a process called photo-entrainment."
We Are Light-Eaters - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/we-are-light-eaters-1170586/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-android
#biology #science
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