人体的季节性生物钟

We think of the body clock as ticking over a 24-hour cycle, but it turns out we have a longer rhythm that affects our immune response, discovers Linda Geddes MANY people have the sense that their health ebbs and flows with the seasons. Now, research suggests that our response to vaccines – and our physiology more generally – varies across the year. The time of year you receive a vaccine could affect your immune response With research suggesting that our response to influenza vaccines follows 24-hour circadian patterns, Laura Barrero Guevara at New York University and her colleagues were inspired to investigate the seasonality of vaccine outcomes more broadly. …