Can your liver sense when you’re staring at a television screen or cellphone late at night? Apparently so, and when such activity is detected, the organ can throw your circadian rhythms out of whack, leaving you more susceptible to health problems.
Daily routine play critical role in Ayurveda. According to Ayurveda, our body is completely aligned with the times of day in regards to our vital organs. Every hour is related to a specific organ(s), and therefore the organ will be at its most powerful energy at its respective times. Further, the time each organ is spiking can reveal to us the best time for treatment, as well as the mostly likely time an imbalance may occur. Knowing one’s internal body clock can help us align our daily activities in order to allow optimal functioning and therefore optimal health.
Now, this fact was ignored arrogantly by modern medical science for more than century now. Recently, they started focusing on the concept.
https://svasthaayurveda.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ayurvedic-Body-Clock-Chart.pdf
Here is the interesting paper about it from modern medical science school:
Research
UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
“For example, despite the shutdown of all other body clocks, including the central brain clock, the liver knew what time it was, responded to light changes as day shifted to night and maintained critical functions, such as preparing to digest food at mealtime and converting glucose to energy.
Somehow, the liver’s circadian clock was able to detect light, presumably via signals from other organs. Only when the mice were subjected to constant darkness did the liver’s clock stop functioning.”
Highlights
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The liver clock oscillates in the absence of all other clocks in vivo
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Only ∼20% of hepatic rhythms are autonomous despite recruitment of BMAL1 to chromatin
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The liver clock is sufficient for oscillation of glycogen and NAD + salvage metabolism
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These autonomous oscillations depend on the light-dark cycle
Summary
