A study in Plos Biology by researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München has described a metabolic network in mice that is not controlled by the brain but rather by the ‘circadian clock’ inside muscle cells.
The inference of this discovery, reported on 10 August, is that diseases like diabetes and obesity are influenced by the body’s internal clock rather than just the endocrine system or the brain.