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Lynne Peeples started her career as a biostatistician before shifting to science journalism. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian , Scientific American , Nature , and other publications. The human body is intricately synchronized to the sun and environmental signals so that it can calibrate its internal clocks. Unfortunately, modern insults like artificial light, contrived time zones, and late-night snacking wreak havoc on our circadian rhythms. Armed with advances in biology and technology, a circadian renaissance is reclaiming those lost rhythms. Journalist Peeples explores the transformative applications of this emerging science so that we can keep our bodies healthier, minds sharper, and moods brighter. Below, Peeples shares five key insights from her new book, The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms . Listen to the audio version—read by Peeples herself—in the Next Big Idea App. | 1. You contain trillions of tiny timekeepers. You’ve got clocks in your brain, bowels, nose, and toes. These evolved to tick in coordination with each other—and in harmony with Nature’s rhythms—to regulate countless physiological processes that make everyday life possible. Biological clocks go back to primordial time. Nearly all living things on Earth emerged under inescapable daily, lunar, seasonal, and annual cycles, the most notable of which was the rising and setting sun. Because survival meant embracing and exploiting the planet’s predictable patterns, organisms developed internal clocks that could generate regular rhythms to match. That original biotech gave life the capacity to prepare for coming changes rather than react. A symphony of inner clocks improved the chances of doing the right things at the right times. For example, it was probably imperative for our ancestors to sleep during the hours of darkness and to maximize strength and speed around sunset, perhaps when hauling home the yields of a hunt while being chased by a bear. It was also best for their bodies to pump out digestive juices when that food was most likely to be ingested and to fortify protective barriers when ultraviolet light or pathogens were most threatening. The human body simply can’t be primed to do all the things at all the times. Inner clocks proved valuable time managers. And that remains true today. Imagine you fly from New York City to Honolulu, land at 2 p.m., and head straight to the beach. Your circadian clocks are still ticking on New York City time as if it was 8 p.m. By that hour, your body’s defense force will have let down its guard, leaving your skin more susceptible to sunburn. By the end of the vacation, your clocks will be more closely aligned with Honolulu time. This is because our circadian clocks are not precision timepieces. They naturally run a little faster or a little slower than the time it takes the Earth to spin. So, your clocks are constantly looking for clues, like the alternation of light and dark as our planet pirouettes, to calibrate to the local 24-hour day. Still, they evolved to adjust by only small increments each day. This is why we suffer jet lag when we cross multiple time zones. It’s also why we don’t need to be jet-setters to wreck our clocks. 2. Modern society has made it hard for circadian clocks to keep time. While day and night were clearly delineated for our ancestors, the boundaries are blurred for modern humans. We spend most hours indoors. We use bright lights at night. We work shift schedules. We observe daylight saving time. We start school too early. We eat too late at night. The list goes on. Without regular day-and-night cues, our circadian clocks can fall out of sync. This can interfere with sleep, diminish productivity, and raise the risk of chronic diseases. Scientists now link disrupted circadian rhythms with many health issues, including depression, diabetes, and dementia. These clock troubles may start early in life. A pregnant woman relays time-of-day signals to her fetus through the ebb and flow of body temperature and changes in circulating hormones and nutrients. Even photons of light may penetrate the womb. But if a mother’s rhythms are out of sync, her baby will struggle to catch the beat. Even after birth, a baby still counts on supplemental circadian cues from its parents to keep rhythm. One easily overlooked source of such information is breast milk. The ingredients of a mother’s milk are very different at eight in the morning compared to eight at night. Morning milk contains more of the alerting hormone cortisol. Night milk contains more sleep-promoting melatonin. Sharing these timely hormones supports a baby’s daily rhythms. But only when the mother shares them at the right times. Breast milk pumped in the morning and bottle-fed to a baby in the evening may be counterproductive, making sleep extra hard both for the baby and its parents. 3. We can reinfuse lost circadian cues. Fortunately, simple fixes can reset our clocks and reclaim our lost rhythms. I recommend three core clock rules: Contrast. Brighten your days and darken your nights. Get outside in the morning and as often as possible throughout the day for additional doses of daylight. Sit or stand close to a window while you work. When necessary, supplement natural light with artificial light that closely mimics the sun’s midday rays—bright and rich in blue wavelengths. At night, dim your lights. Try warm tabletop lamps or candles. You might even spread out a sea of faux candles, as I’ve done in my apartment, and light them with a click of a remote. Finally, as you’ve been repeatedly told, limit your screen time. Constrict. It’s not just what you eat but when you eat that matters. We should only eat when the body is ready to handle the incoming calories, generally during daylight hours. So, tighten your meal window during the day. Consider holding off for an hour or two after you wake up. Then stop eating at least three hours before you go to bed—that means not a sip of wine or even warm milk. Consistent. Eat, exercise, and sleep at the same hours seven days a week. Recent research hints that sleep timing may be more important than duration for our health. Of course, modern society’s rigid—and often biologically backward—schedules make it difficult to sleep and wake by the body clock daily. Again, there are practical remedies. We could collectively agree to delay school bells and flex working hours to allow people to wake up without alarm clocks. 4. Circadian awareness can enhance performance, productivity, and medicine. Your brain and body at noon are not the same as your brain and body at midnight. You might want to set your expectations and your schedule accordingly. When do you feel the most focused, happiest, strongest? Like me, you may feel most optimistic a couple of hours after waking up. Maybe you lose all motivation to do anything but nap in the midafternoon. And maybe your legs feel like lead during a morning run, yet like a cheetah’s in the evening. Whatever your personal highs and lows, you can thank your circadian rhythms. Then, with this awareness, you can harness them. Try organizing your day around your peaks and troughs. Personally, I do my important thinking and writing early in the day. I more or less write off midafternoons for mostly brainless stuff, like dusting my apartment or cleaning out my inbox. But maybe you have no choice. Maybe that’s when you’re scheduled to give an important speech or interview. Or maybe you’re a musician or a comedian set to take the stage, or an athlete about to take the court or field. For the average athlete, performance peaks in the late afternoon or early evening. In other words, if a Boston team flies into Seattle for a 1 p.m. kickoff or first pitch, they would have the circadian edge. Athletes, coaches, CEOs, and military leaders are among those recognizing the profound implications. Meanwhile, scientists are developing novel tools to manipulate our clocks—to either get them back in sync faster or trick them into thinking the local time is earlier or later than it really is. Both could help tee anyone up for greater success and better health. Researchers are testing flashes of light while we sleep, glasses that beam blue light into our eyes, and even drugs that directly alter our clockwork. Similar efforts are underway in medicine, as experts recognize that the time of day a drug or other treatment is delivered could meaningfully alter its effectiveness and side effects. 5. Circadian science for sustainability. The first recorded evidence of a living timekeeper came from a plant. Centuries later, scientists are looking to plant clocks with the goal of adding years of livability. Inner clocks control nearly every aspect of a plant’s physiology, including how readily it takes in sunlight, water, nutrients, and chemicals. Researchers have shown, for example, that Roundup is more effective at killing weeds at certain times of day. Strategically timing inputs or genetically tweaking a plant’s circadian clocks could result in greater yields while using fewer toxic chemicals and less water. It could bolster a crop’s resistance to extreme conditions. It could increase the contents of protein, vitamins, and phytochemicals. It could even make a crop last longer. Plant clocks can keep ticking after harvest. However, we often unintentionally quiet those clocks, much like we do our own. In so doing, we waste precious food. Carrots and cabbage may sit under constant bright light in a 24-hour supermarket. Then they might land in a perpetually dark refrigerator drawer, with only brief blasts of light every time its buyer goes in search of a snack. At least one fridge company is attempting to extend freshness with cycled LED lights. While far less ideal than sustaining life on planet Earth, circadian science may prove helpful if we ever need to transplant people, plants, and other organisms to another planet. Mars is the leading contender. Among the daunting challenges we would face are different day lengths and wavelengths of light. We’d see a whole lot more red than blue on Mars. Personally, I prefer blue. Our circadian clocks do, too. This article originally appeared in Next Big Idea Club magazine and is reprinted with permission. The application deadline for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards is Friday, December 6, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.Wright runs for 118 yards and 2 TDs, No. 13 Illinois State gets 1st win over North Dakota, 35-13

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Health care workers suffer five times more violence than any other industry, yet the issue often goes unnoticed—until a high-profile tragedy, like the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson , brings it into focus. In 2023, health care and social assistance workers obtained more than 562,000 injuries and illnesses on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . That's more than any other industry, including manufacturing, construction and transportation. Nurses and doctors are especially prone to violence. Ninety-one percent of emergency doctors say that they or a colleague were a victim of violence in the previous year, according to a January poll from the American College of Emergency Physicians. One quarter of nurses are abused in the workplace, the American Nurses Association reports . The issue is so pervasive that in October, the American Hospital Association formed a partnership with the FBI to address targeted violence in health care settings. Violence shows up in hospitals as physical assaults, verbal threats and, occasionally, large-scale or pointed attacks. These cases are not always lethal, but they can be. In 2023, a Tennessee surgeon was shot and killed by his patient. In 2018, a Houston physician was murdered by a patient's relative who was holding a grudge. In 2017, a 79-year-old man was sentenced to life plus a decade in prison for fatally shooting his urologist. It's uncommon for an executive to be targeted, but not unheard of. In April, Valley Children's Hospital in Madera, California, ordered 24-hour security at the home of its CEO, Todd Suntrapak, following public outrage over his $5.1 million paycheck. Violence comes with the territory when you work in health care, nurses and front-line hospital leaders told Newsweek this week. It generally goes unaddressed, unless—or perhaps until—the threat creeps into the C-suite. A 2024 report from Press Ganey (a data and technology company that partners with 41,000 health care providers) found a "concerning gap" between front-line hospital workers' and leaders' perceptions of safety culture at their organizations. More than 48 percent of hospital employees reported a low perception of safety culture at their organizations, while senior management rated it 4.53 out of five stars. That's why words like "hope," "hopeful" and "hopefully" punctuated Newsweek 's conversations with health care workers and their representative organizations following Thompson's killing. Many nurses hope this incident will cast a spotlight on the rising violence in the health care industry, Dr. Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, told Newsweek . "There's frustration that nurses have been dealing with this for decades," Mensik Kennedy said, "and that the death of the CEO could have been prevented if we had really taken the issue seriously decades ago." While the killing of an insurance executive is different from the daily aggressions faced by hospital staff, it highlights the dangers of patients' boiling discontent. A 2024 data review published in the weekly journal eClinicalMedicine found that rising costs and the commercialization of the health care industry have contributed to increased violence against health care workers. On the front lines, pre-existing distrust is often exacerbated by long wait times and a lack of resources. When patients are both sick and frustrated , they are more likely to lash out. "The desperation and stress of patients, compounded by systemic inefficiencies, have created a tense and dangerous environment for health care professionals who are already working under immense pressure," Alice Benjamin, chief nursing officer consultant at Nurse.com and an emergency and family medicine nurse practitioner, told Newsweek . "These incidents are taking a serious toll on the mental and emotional well-being of front-line workers," Benjamin continued, "many of whom feel unsupported and increasingly unsafe." In the days following Thompson's death, patients expressed outrage toward UnitedHealthcare for denying insurance claims ; however, the bulk of this anger is geared toward for-profit health care institutions, not community health care workers. Newsweek found no evidence of increased threats against front-line workers in the wake of the CEO shooting, although there has been more discussion around the ever-present violence. Dr. Dhaval Desai, director of hospital medicine at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, told Newsweek that he has not felt exacerbated tensions on the front lines since December 4—but that the tragic incident has opened a "mixed" conversation among hospital workers. "On the front line, we're there to care for the patients," Desai said. "We often do feel shortcomings from the insurance companies, and how can we continue to make that better?" Hospital workers have been discussing the issue for years, Desai said. While it "should never take the murder of a man" to open the dialogue, it's an important conversation to have. "This is a rude awakening for everybody that we are in a troubled system where the patient is not always taken care of by the sources that should be taking care of them," Desai said. Some hospitals have increased security measures in the wake of the shooting, according to Benjamin, Mensik Kennedy and Gene Petrino, a retired SWAT commander and co-founder of Survival Response, a workplace violence response and education company that provides specialized services to hospitals. All three noted that the reforms are unlikely to last. "Any time one of these instances happens, security always gets tightened, but it kind of fades away as time goes on," Petrino told Newsweek . He expects to see a return to normal in two weeks to a month. Most of the protections Petrino has seen added since December 4 are focused on senior leaders, not front-line workers. For example, some locations are revving up security around executive parking. Some hospitals have also been giving staff refreshers on safety protocol, reminding them not to leave doors propped open and to report suspicious behavior. Health care organizations have been ramping up security since 2020, when workplace violence started to visibly escalate amid the pandemic. Some have independent police forces and metal detectors. At the Healthcare Burnout Symposium in New York City on November 21, Desai shared some of the work Emory has done to improve physical and psychological safety . The system has established multidisciplinary Workplace Violence Response Teams in all units—featuring representatives from hospital administration, public safety, human resources and risk management—to debrief violent events and deploy necessary support. Each patient room now has signage iterating a zero-tolerance policy for both verbal and nonverbal aggression toward employees. Desai also encouraged health care leaders in the audience not to shy away from difficult conversations and not to downplay employees' concerns. "Workplace violence is happening at your institution," Desai said. "Don't be in denial." Unfortunately, many health care organizations do turn a blind eye to the dangers their employees face, according to Petrino: "They see [security] as one of the cost-cutting areas used to increase profit." But when people feel safe at work, it's a net positive for a business—and this is especially true in health care, Petrino said. When hospital workers have a sense of security, they are more productive and make fewer errors. Patients are also more likely to choose a hospital with safety assurances. "What happened with United...in a sad way, it might be a benefit that some hospitals might start taking [security] more seriously," Petrino said. It's not just up to hospitals, according to Mensik Kennedy, whose organization represents 5.5 million registered nurses around the country. She believes there needs to be a national effort to reduce violence in the health care industry. The American Nurses Association has been petitioning the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for years but has not seen any real change. Currently, many advocacy efforts are concentrated on the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, which would require employers to take actions to protect employees from violence. If the bill is inked, health care facilities would be mandated to produce workplace violence prevention plans, train and educate employees who may be exposed to violence, investigate and keep records of all violent incidents and provide an annual report to Congress . The Act was passed by the House in April 2021 and is still awaiting further action from the Senate . Violence and anger in health care have populated public discourse this month. But even after the noise dies down, it will remain "daily life" for nurses, Mensik Kennedy said. 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