Effects of Circadian Rhythm on Energy Metabolism
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 157
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Interests: human sleep; energy metabolism; sport nutrition; human calorimeter; sport medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy metabolism is affected by circadian changes in environment such as light and temperature, as well as by circadian-controlled behaviors such as meal times, exercise, and sleep–wake cycles. A forced desynchrony protocol, which uncouples sleep–wake and activity-related effects from the endogenous circadian rhythm, revealed a circadian component involved in resting energy metabolism in humans. Whole-room indirect calorimetry allows us to monitor energy metabolism without interruption over long timescales including sleep and meal ingestion. Time resolution of the monitoring system has greatly improved during recent decades. It is now possible to design studies to isolate each factor affecting energy metabolism, such as by adopting a special experimental protocol such as forced desynchrony or applying a statistical approach such as semi-parametric analysis to separately analyse the effects of individual factors.
Prof. Dr. Kumpei Tokuyama
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- whole-room indirect calorimetry
- sleep
- light
- meal
- exercise
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