The Tuning Fork for Aging

Vladimir N. ANISIMOV

The alternation of day and night, light and darkness is among the most essential natural phenomena on Earth. The rotation of our planet around its axis and concurrently around the Sun ticks away days, seasons, and years of human life. The epiphysis (pineal gland) is the biological clock of the organism, and its hormone, melatonin, may be compared to the balance wheel that regulates the beat of this clock. It is difficult to overestimate the role played by our natural chronograph in the regulation of the body’s physiological rhythms and their adaptation to the environmental conditions

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