Don’t touch my clock! Let’s be in harmony with nature

In many countries, the clocks are going forward again, and then maybe they will be back again. People naturally cannot question why this should be so. After all, they are not experts on the subject. On the other hand, even the experts on the subject are divided into two. One group argues that the clocks should be moved back and forth, while another group argues that the clocks should not change. Who is right? But I think we should determine the right one from a biological point of view.

The hormone melatonin is one of the two evolutionarily unchanged molecules from unicellular to multicellular humans. The most important job it does is to synchronize the living thing with its environment (the world). According to Earth time, it oscillates rhythmically only in the dark, not in the daylight. Among its many important tasks, one of them is to open the window of sleep in humans, for example. We always read from books the fairy tales that a healthy life is about 100 years in the world of the ancients, where technology was not that advanced. Today, people who are not the toy of a ridiculous technological virtual world can live up to the age of 100 in a healthy way in harmony with nature. One of the most important conditions of staying healthy is to ensure that the rhythm of melatonin is not disturbed. The presence of melatonin secreted from the pineal gland (at least 7-8 hours uninterruptedly) in the blood, especially between sunset and sunrise, was the first condition to stay healthy. Regardless of the games played on the clocks, biologically humans should go to sleep at sunset and get up at sunrise. The reproductive effect of the dark period, which increases and decreases in summer and winter, on living things is very important. The fact that human beings detach themselves from nature and confine themselves to light and warm sheltered areas on winter days does not mean that it is (was!) not photoperiodic. After these technological atrocities we inflict on ourselves, we must search in the universe, which has kept its rhythm unchanged for millions of years, why we get sick so often and face death at an early age. It is the rhythmic release of melatonin, which is the secretion of the pineal gland in our brain, which does not change in our nature. This oscillation is fully compatible with the sun.

So instead of playing with clocks, let’s adapt human beings to nature. In the winter months when the days (light period) get shorter, we can start the education sector an hour late. Similarly, we can harmonize the entire business sector. Thus, since people will spend time with enough melatonin hormone in their sleep, perhaps many health-based problems will decrease. As a result, let’s adapt to nature instead of playing with clocks