Researchers Identify Stomach "Clock"

The stomach has a clock of its own, limiting the need to eat food to certain times in a day, a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience says. Researchers at University of Adelaide reveal that they have discovered the first evidence that the nerves in the stomach act as a circadian clock through which the stomach sends signals to the brain about when to eat food. "What we've found is that the nerves in the gut are at their least sensitive at time ...