How often do you wake up minutes before your alarm goes off?
With the right sleep conditions, our bodies naturally wake up at
a similar hour each day. If you are sleeping on a Simmons
Beautyrest, this event is probably a common occurrence. Until
recently, scientists had trouble determining the cause of this
natural phenomenon. The scientific community was roughly aware
of the mechanism that prepared us for sleep, but little was
known about the way we wake-up. Now researchers at the Salt Lake
Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla California have
located the gene that triggers our body to wake-up at a given
time. Researcher, Satchidananda Panda, claims, “the body is
essentially a collection of clocks.” These clocks subconsciously
trigger our brain and other organs to carry out involuntary
actions. Our body’s natural drop in temperature before we fall
asleep is one example. With the ‘wake-up’ gene located, sleep
scientists can now expand their study of sleep disorders. There
is also hope that the discover