Aging and circadian rhythms

Exploring Links between Circadian Rhythms and Healthy Aging

Circadian rhythms, time-restricted feeding, and healthy aging.

Circadian rhythms optimize physiology and health by temporally coordinating cellular function, tissue function, and behavior. These endogenous rhythms dampen with age and thus compromise temporal coordination. Feeding-fasting patterns are an external cue that profoundly influence the robustness of daily biological rhythms. Erratic eating patterns can disrupt the temporal coordination of metabol...

Aging, circadian rhythms and depressive disorders: a review.

INTRODUCTION Aging is typically associated with impairing behavioral patterns that are frequently and inappropriately seen as normal. Circadian rhythm changes and depressive disorders have been increasingly proposed as the two main overlapping and interpenetrating changes that take place in older age. This study aims to review the state of the art on the subject concerning epidemiology, pathoph...

Circadian rhythms, aging, and life span in mammals.

Resetting the circadian clock leads to well being and increased life span, whereas clock disruption is associated with aging and morbidity. Increased longevity and improved health can be achieved by different feeding regimens that reset circadian rhythms and may lead to better synchrony in metabolism and physiology. This review focuses on recent findings concerning the relationships between cir...

[The Role of Circadian Rhythms in Aging and ADHD].

The circadian rhythms coordinates the internal physiology to increase the homeostatic capacity thereby providing both a survival advantage to the system and an optimization of energy budgeting. Because multiple-oscillator circadian mechanisms are likely to play a role in regulating human health, and may contribute to the aging process, we give an overview of the relationship between the central...