Like any parent, I'm obsessed with sleep in a way I never experienced in the period of time before I had a baby. I remember my midwife telling me I should try to get 2 stretches of 3 hours of sleep with a two-week-old, and the despair when I asked, "How?" I know words like "sleep pressure" and "split nights." I have spent too much in the battlefield of the great sleep training war. And I really don't understand the point of daylights savings.
So much of sleep revolves around the circadian clock, our body's way of keeping time. And for Tiny Matters, I wanted to learn more about how this circadian clock shows up in nature, not just in ourselves. Plants rely on it, animals rely on it, just about everything has to keep time! So listen to this episode of Tiny Matters, if you want to learn...
- how circadian clocks help plants regulate their immune systems
- the clocks that run on a different sense of time
- what the heck a zeitgeber is
