Tick Tock
- Every single cell of the body has clock genes, bits of DNA that flip on and off throughout the day.
- Like the body as a whole, the cell's metabolism is scheduled for efficiency. Clock genes regulate the expression of between 5 and 20 percent of all the other genes in the cell.
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