Chronobiology: the Biology of Time

By Juan Moises de la Serna

It would be great if we could govern ourselves, according to our own time, which displays the optimum rhythm for any performance; therefore, as we will see throughout the book, to follow it will provide health.

Each of us is a unique being, so it would be convenient if we could learn to listen to our own organism’s clock, in order to live in attunement with its functioning.  Thereby, by adjusting to it, we will be able to perform any task with ability and calmness. 

To perform daily activities more quickly than this time, will only bring stress and diseases associated with it. Similarly, performing them slower than the optimum time will cause despair and boredom.

This present book addresses a theme of great relevance for personal self-discovery and for social relations, as it will enable us to approach others under a new enriching perspective.

It would be great if we could govern ourselves, according to our own time, which displays the optimum rhythm for any performance; therefore, as we will see throughout the book, to follow it will provide health.

Each of us is a unique being, so it would be convenient if we could learn to listen to our own organism’s clock, in order to live in attunement with its functioning.  Thereby, by adjusting to it, we will be able to perform any task with ability and calmness. 

To perform daily activities more quickly than this time, will only bring stress and diseases associated with it. Similarly, performing them slower than the optimum time will cause despair and boredom.

This present book addresses a theme of great relevance for personal self-discovery and for social relations, as it will enable us to approach others under a new enriching perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jan 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781547513390

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Chronobiology: the Biology of Time

Juan Moises de la Serna

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Translated by Luiz H. Medeiros de C. Cezar 

Chronobiology: the Biology of Time

Written By Juan Moises de la Serna

Copyright © 2018 Juan Moises de la Serna

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ChronoBiology

The Biology of time

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Ph.D. Juan Moisés de la Serna

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Copyright © 2017

Preface

It would be great if we could govern ourselves, according to our own time, which displays the optimum rhythm for any performance; therefore, as we will see throughout the book, to follow it will provide health.

Each of us is a unique being, so it would be convenient if we could learn to listen to our own organism’s clock, in order to live in attunement with its functioning.  Thereby, by adjusting to it, we will be able to perform any task with ability and calmness. 

To perform daily activities more quickly than this time, will only bring stress and diseases associated with it. Similarly, performing them slower than the optimum time will cause despair and boredom.

This present book addresses a theme of great relevance for personal self-discovery and for social relations, as it will enable us to approach others under a new enriching perspective.

Goal

The goal of the book is to avail as the first approach to the emerging branch called Chronobiology.

For this purpose, the most relevant issues are dealt with results on the latest researches that have been carried out over the last two years throughout the world on this subject.

All explained in a clear and simple language, keeping away the use of technicalities and making understandable each concept so that it can serve as a true guide to initiation.

The book’s target group:

- Healthy professionals that wish to depth the knowledge about the effects of time on health.

- Teachers that want to introduce updated information to its students about our internal clocks.

- Any person interested in getting to know how we work internally and the influences time has on behavior and health.

Thematic

Next, are detailed each of the main themes of this book:

- The life cycle: All living beings are conditioned to the passage of time and its consequence, and the human being is among them; this section ascertains how we are affected by the pace of time.

- The origin of time controlling: One of the great discoveries of mankind has been to understand and measure the passing time, which enabled them to make predictions; this section explores the history of the measurement of time.

- The biological clock: This part delves into the concept of the biological clock, and explains how humans actually have more than one clock which helps them to maintain the proper functioning of body system.

Contents

Capter 1. The most striking discovery of our times

Chapter 2.The life cycle

Chapter 3. The origin of time-controlling

Chapter 4. The human clock

Chapter 5. The Migrations

Chapter 6. The Menstrual cycle

Chapter 7. The Heart Frequency

Chapter 8. The Sleep Cycle

Chapter 9. Cell Regeneration rate

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Dedicated to my parents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Sincere thanks to all who have contributed and appreciated to the realization of this text, especially to Mrs. Vilma Aho, bio-scientist, researcher of the Helsinki Sleep Research Team, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki (Finland) and Dr. Ricardo López Pérez, cancer healing researcher and director of Immunostep R & D & I Department.

Capter 1. The most striking discovery of our times

If someone stops for a while to look around, wondering how it was the background at one’s father times, it would be easy to notice technology has incredibly improved. Forty years ago they had no idea about mobile phone and words, such as Facebook, Twiter or WhatsApp; very usual today, however unimaginable for them.

Moreover, if we look back at our grandfather times, changes are even clearer when compared with ours. Today we wake up by the mobile's alarm clock, where we can check if there is any message from any part of the world and at the same time we check the weather forecast. Likewise the plasma TV may be our companion during the breakfast, and on our way to work it is possible to check messages on BlackBerry or even watch and enjoy our idol's last show on iPod.

We are so used to technology and its progress that it’s hard to understand the concept of civilization without it. In fact, technology is exactly the central line through which we frame the developed world, according to its technological availability and advancements at many fields of knowledge as, for example, medicine.

Developing countries are those that gradually incorporate their technological use as well as increase infrastructure, such as paving, freeways, but also an electric line that lights up the streets or allows traffic control by traffic lights.

But for those of the undeveloped world, all mentioned above is so far as to our father's father times, when he was young.

In a short time, changes were so unexpected; we’ve changed to some extent that a group of scientists are now proposing we got definitely to a new step on human evolution: the Homo technological, leaving behind the Homo sapiens, which appeared thousands of years ago.

There were many improvements experienced by current civilization along history until get to its current level, which is considered usual today but one century ago it would have been considered highly exceptional, as for example: The electricity that lights up each corner of our cities, as neon advertisement signs, traffic lights or street lights. And also the massive use of internet and long-distance communication through tablets and a varied range of mobile devices; today in