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In sync: How to take control of your many body clocks

You have not one, but thousands or even millions of body clocks. Learn to control them, and you can tackle problems from jet lag to weight loss

By Catherine de Lange

13 April 2016

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Clocking in: thousands of body clocks make us tick

Jonny Wan

GERDA POT’S grandmother was a stickler for timekeeping. “She always had breakfast at the same time, lunch and dinner at the same time, but even in between she had tea and coffee breaks every day at the same time,” says Pot. She also aged robustly, living independently well into her 90s. That got Pot wondering: was there something in the regularity of her grandmother’s habits that held the key to her rude health?

, Pot was better placed than most to investigate…

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