What is a biological clock

People have certain rules in everything they do every day, and many people get up and go to bed on time every day, which is very helpful for the body to rest. Many people do not pay attention to this. Doing things regularly is very helpful for human health. So what is the biological clock? Many people are not clear about this.

Many people don’t know much about what the biological clock is, and when this word appears, they don’t know how to deal with it. The biological clock also has its own characteristics. Let’s introduce it in detail below.

What is the biological clock?

The biological clock is also called the physiological clock. It is an invisible "clock" in the body, which is actually the intrinsic rhythmicity of the life activities of the organism, and it is determined by the time structure sequence in the organism. Through the study of biological clocks, new disciplines such as chronobiology, chronopharmacology and chronotherapy have emerged. It can be seen that studying the biological clock has important medical significance and promotes basic theoretical research in biology.

The biological clock has four functions: prompting time, prompting events, maintaining status and prohibiting function.

1. Prompt time

It means that you have to do something at a certain time, and when the time comes, you will automatically think of it. For example, if you want to get up at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, you will get up automatically at that time. Most things in real life are based on time cues, such as what time to go to work, when to meet someone, giving flowers to a loved one on his or her birthday, April Fools' Day, catching a certain bus, etc.

2. Prompt events

It means that when you encounter something, your biological clock can automatically prompt the occurrence of another event. For example, if someone asks you to give something to A, when you meet A, your biological clock will automatically come into play, making you immediately think of the entrusted thing. The most commonly used are the "memory blocks" (a kind of memory) that are generated in sequence in your brain when you see something. For example, when you see a panda, you will think of: it is China's national treasure, it likes to eat bamboo, it is China's envoy sent abroad as a symbol of friendship, and so on.

3. Maintain status

It refers to the power that enables people to keep doing something. For example, attending an eight-hour class is the result of the function of the biological clock. Another example is that when a person's eyes look at something, they can concentrate, which is also the result of it. When attention shifts from vision to hearing, it is also the result of the biological clock. That is the event prompt function at work. However, if you want to finish a class, you must use this function of the biological clock to finish it, otherwise you will fall asleep or even skip classes.

4. Prohibited functions

It means that a certain function or behavior of the body can be terminated by the biological clock. For example, if you see a terrifying event (such as an earthquake), no matter what you are doing, you may want to run away, and this escape means terminating what you were doing before. For example, when you are concentrating on surfing the Internet, your father calls you. Your termination of surfing is the result of the function of your biological clock. If there is no such function, a person will do things without stopping, such as sleeping. If there is no such termination, the person will sleep for a long time and become a vegetable. The cause of vegetative state may be related to the loss of control of this function.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of what the biological clock is. Therefore, when it becomes abnormal, we need to improve ourselves. However, the biological clock rarely gets out of control. Generally, problems occur and they are closely related to people themselves. This also needs attention.