Our immune system is actively fighting bacteria night
A relaxed sleep is to the body indispensable medicine because the immune system exerts its protective functions best during the night time.
As shown by a study by Stanford University /USA/, our immune system is actively fighting bacteria night and minimizes the effort during the day. Biologists believe that their discovery demonstrates that circadian proteins regulate the best way the restorative functions of immune responses during sleep, when metabolism is slowing in the organs.
Circadian rhythms is the body’s internal clock, configured to control his daily nutrition and rest. Experiments on fruit flies have shown that disrupted circadian rhythm increases susceptibility to bacterial infections.
In laboratory tests, the scientists compared the activity of bacteria in the infected insects at different times of the day and night. It turned out that the infected at night flies are more likely to survive because their immune system is triggered immediately and the phagocytic activity was increased during sleep.
