University of California, Irvine researchers have identified the chemical switch that triggers the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock.

加州大学欧文分校的研究人员找出了调节我们内部的生物钟遗传机制化学触发开关。

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The recommendations arise from a deeper understanding of circadian rhythms - our internal body clock, which determines optimum levels of concentration, wakefulness and work ability.

这些提议基于对昼夜节律(也就是我们内部的生物钟)更深层的认识，因为昼夜节律决定了我们的注意力、清醒状态和劳动能力何时能达到最佳水平。

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A third cue your body USES to set its internal clock is temperature.

你的身体发送给生物钟的第三个信号是温度。

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Impairment in the body's internal clock, ultimately disrupting a person's sleep-wake cycle, is just one of the potential symptoms of dementia.

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Even relatively small amounts of light can reset the body's internal clock, so find as dark an environment as possible when traveling.

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Gene Block, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues found that by middle age, the signal the master body clock in the brain sends out to other internal clocks to help resynchronize the different processes gets weaker.

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