Credits
NARRATION Tom Wilson
PRODUCER Speranta TV
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Andrei Badulescu
GRAPHICS/ANIMATION Andrei Badulescu/3D BADU Cristiana Apostol/Cinesound Europe
SOUND DESIGN Valentin Bogdan, Laurentiu Bugan
NARRATION TEXT Daniel Mihai
DIRECTOR Attila Peli
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CONSULTANTS Stelian Anghel, Ovidiu Tudor, Daniel Mihai, Alin Holban, Florin Ghetu, Bianca Catargiu, Razvan Mihalcea, Bogdan Popa
EDITING Attila Peli
MUSIC Marcozannone
SPECIAL THANKS Andreea Paun, Irina Anghel, Florin Ghetu, Aritina Barbulescu, Cristian Magura, Cristina Cuncea, Mihai Bolonyi, Costin Banica, Petrica Cristescu, AnaMaria Lupu, Dorin Aiteanu
EDITING Attila Peli
MUSIC Marcozannone
SPECIAL THANKS Andreea Paun, Irina Anghel, Florin Ghetu, Aritina Barbulescu, Cristian Magura, Cristina Cuncea, Mihai Bolonyi, Costin Banica, Petrica Cristescu, AnaMaria Lupu, Dorin Aiteanu
COPYRIGHT SPERANTA TV 2018
Transcript
Just as the the whole of nature is governed by order, and life unfolds at its annual, monthly, weekly, or daily, rhythms, your body, through its functions, is perfectly correlated with the daily rotation of the earth around the sun. Inside you there is a “biological clock” that helps you anticipate changes and adapt to the regular day-night rhythm, creating the premises for your optimal functioning.
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In contrast, your well-being is jeopardized when you’re brutally interfering by external factors that are no longer correlated with this “internal clock”. For example, when you eat during sleep hours, or when you work at night, or when you change time zones, you are hormonally unprepared, and the activity of the genes regulating your metabolic clock is suppressed. As a result, you gain weight, your blood pressure increases, amplifying stress in a vicious circle that predisposes your body to inflammation, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
What exactly determines this daily rhythm? Firstly, the pineal gland, located in the center of the brain, produces a hormone called melatonin. Stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light, almost absent the entire day, melatonin is produced starting with 9PM, “preparing” you for the night sleep.
In the opposite direction, cortisol – the “stress”hormone is produced by the adrenal glands under the control of another unit in your brain responsible for the biological clock – the hypothalamus.
The synthesis of cortisol follows the same dayly rhythm, having its peak around 6to8 AM, before you wake up, just when you need energy to start your activities. It sustains the tension in your blood vessels and increases the level of glucose that will be your every day ”starting fuel”. Then, the cortisol undergoes a decline throughout the day, becoming undetectable at night during your first hours of sleep, resuming its cycle to reach its peak again during the next morning. Other episodes of cortisol addition, of small amplitude, occur during the day, when you eat or when you make psychical effort.
Thus, your inner clock adapts, with perfect precision, your physiology during the different phases of the day, adjusting essential functions – your body’s metabolism and temperature, hormone levels, your sleep, and even your behavior.
What exactly determines this daily rhythm? Firstly, the pineal gland, located in the center of the brain, produces a hormone called melatonin. Stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light, almost absent the entire day, melatonin is produced starting with 9PM, “preparing” you for the night sleep.
In the opposite direction, cortisol – the “stress”hormone is produced by the adrenal glands under the control of another unit in your brain responsible for the biological clock – the hypothalamus.
The synthesis of cortisol follows the same dayly rhythm, having its peak around 6to8 AM, before you wake up, just when you need energy to start your activities. It sustains the tension in your blood vessels and increases the level of glucose that will be your every day ”starting fuel”. Then, the cortisol undergoes a decline throughout the day, becoming undetectable at night during your first hours of sleep, resuming its cycle to reach its peak again during the next morning. Other episodes of cortisol addition, of small amplitude, occur during the day, when you eat or when you make psychical effort.
Thus, your inner clock adapts, with perfect precision, your physiology during the different phases of the day, adjusting essential functions – your body’s metabolism and temperature, hormone levels, your sleep, and even your behavior.
