Our biorhythms are important to our health. A biological clock in sync with time is very important for sleep. Recent research has shown that a natural biorhythm is important for many more functions of our body. No process in our body escapes the biorhythm.

Irregular shifts, jet lag, irregular life, it directly affects our health. Often a disturbance cannot be avoided: After all, you don’t stay down when the baby needs to be fed. We all know how debilitating that can be. If you work night shifts or fly frequently to faraway destinations, that is also a drain on resilience, and in the long run it is undermining. A range of symptoms are related to jet lag, e.g., a weakening of the immune system, mood swings, metabolic problems, disorientation. It is estimated that about half the population in large cities has a day-night rhythm that does not match their daily schedule. You can suffer considerably from that. People call this ‘social jet lag’ ( Philips, M.L, 2009: Circadian rhythms: of owls, larks and alarmclocks. Nature, 458, 142-144).

We are familiar with the organ clock and the fact that within a twenty-four hour period each meridian has its own energy peak. A familiar phenomenon for us is that a person often wakes up at the time of a meridian with an energy deficiency or obvious asymmetry. In our brain, more precisely in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, sits our body’s central clock. It is leveled by daylight every day. In addition, all cells and organs have their own internal clock, driven by a set of genes called clock genes. These clock genes, in turn, give rhythm to other genes. It is now known that between 10 and 20% of all our genes in an organ are turned on and off in a daily rhythm. You can say that every process in our body is influenced by the rhythm of the day. If that is an open door, then surely an open door behind which lies a Raymedy solution.