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Daily Rhythms
Author(s) -
Armstrong Stuart
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118302100409
Subject(s) - rhythm , circadian rhythm , chronobiology , biology , neuroscience , physiology , medicine
Most life processes show daily rhythms. Within each cell of your body there are daily rhythms. Cells of a like‐kind make up tissues so we have rhythms at the tissue level. Tissues make up organs so each organ of the body has many rhythms. Man is essentially a collection of organs so he is, in a sense, really made up of a multitude of daily rhythms. These rhythms all peak and decline at different times in the 24‐hour cycle of sleep and wakefulness, so daily rhythms become a very complex phenomenon. Some of these rhythms are shown in Figure 1, to illustrate this point. In a normal healthy adult all the rhythms show stable phase relationships with each other. If one's internal environment is perturbed so that the stable phase‐relationship between the different rhythms is lost, the body may be more susceptible to disease.