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Which hormone follows a circadian rhythm and peaks just before a person wakes from sleep?
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Cortisol affects many body functions, including metabolism and regulation of your immune system. Its levels are highest between 6 and 8 a.m. and gradually decline throughout the day. If you change your daily sleeping schedule, the peak of cortisol's cycle changes accordingly.
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How did the circadian rhythm disorder get its name?
The term circadian comes from the Latin words circa which means "around" and dies which means "day". The term circadian rhythm refers to the biochemical processes of an organism that occur over the duration of 24 hours. A circadian rhythm disorder is any disruption in a person's circadian rhythm.
What fraction of a person's life is spent in the circadian rhythm of sleep?
about one third
Why can't i sleep in?
Probably your circadian rhythm prevents you. Circadian rhythm is a person's biological clock; regular bodily rhythms (for example temperature or in your example wakefullness and tiredness) that occur on a 24 hour cycle.
Which hormone is responsible when a person suffers from gigantism?
Growth hormone
How long a can man survive on hormone therapy with prostate cancer?
It varies from person to person. But my father lasted almost 8 years before he died from prostate cancer.
What causes shift work circadian rhythm sleep disorder?
Shift work type is caused by the schedule of a person's job.
Traveling across multiple time zone can disrupt a person's what Leaving them groggy and tired?
It can disturb their sleep cycle or circadian rhythms.
A person who has a job that requires working all night and sleeping during the day will end up fighting his or her natural?
Circadian rhythm for apex ;)
How does a person inherit gigantism?
Gigantism is abnormally large growth due to an excess of growth hormone during childhood, before the bone growth plates have closed.
Brain mechanisms associated with circadian rhythms?
Circadian rhythms are controlled by the hypothalamus in humans. Circadian rhythm refers to the body's biological clock that determines when a person should sleep, and it controls a variety of other body processes, as well.
What is the word for a person who follows you?
stalker
When a person eats a hormone is released. this hormone signals the stomach to start breaking down the food?
endocrine & digestive system
