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Join us to:
1) Explore how our natural body 'clock' works, its impact on health, and age-related changes. We'll share tips to strengthen your body clock and promote healthier ageing.
2) Understand how nerves and immune system talk to each other to cause pain in people with high blood pressure and arthritis. Learn how we're working to reduce pain and make life better.
1) Explore how our natural body 'clock' works, its impact on health, and age-related changes. We'll share tips to strengthen your body clock and promote healthier ageing.
2) Understand how nerves and immune system talk to each other to cause pain in people with high blood pressure and arthritis. Learn how we're working to reduce pain and make life better.
Hacking your body clock: how to strengthen our body clock and promote healthy ageing
Lorna Brown
(Research Student, Medway School of Pharmacy)
Our bodies have natural 24-hour clocks, known as circadian rhythms, that help us know when to sleep and wake and optimise many body functions (e.g., sleep, body temperature, appetite). Therefore, circadian rhythms are important for our overall health and wellbeing. However, many factors such as ageing, lifestyle choices (e.g., increased night-time use of electronic devices), and diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease) result in disruption to our circadian rhythms.
As the global population ages the prevalence of age-associated circadian disruption is set to increase – but why should it? We will explore the basis of mammalian circadian rhythmicity, its importance in health, and how our body ‘clocks’ change as we age. The final focus will be on how we can adjust our current lifestyle habits to strengthen our circadian rhythms and promote healthier ageing.
As the global population ages the prevalence of age-associated circadian disruption is set to increase – but why should it? We will explore the basis of mammalian circadian rhythmicity, its importance in health, and how our body ‘clocks’ change as we age. The final focus will be on how we can adjust our current lifestyle habits to strengthen our circadian rhythms and promote healthier ageing.
Understanding how nerves and immune system talk to each other to cause joint pain
Makurata Zanika
(Research Student, Medway School of Pharmacy)
High blood pressure is common as people age and something that can be managed to help with osteoarthritis (a chronic joint-pain disease). While high blood pressure is known to be linked to a reduced ability to feel pain, how this happens is unknown.
My research studies how nerves and immune system talk to each other to cause pain in people with high blood pressure and arthritis. This is important to better control the symptoms of joint pain in individuals with multiple illnesses. By understanding how different illnesses work together, we can find ways to lessen the amount of medicine people require.
My research studies how nerves and immune system talk to each other to cause pain in people with high blood pressure and arthritis. This is important to better control the symptoms of joint pain in individuals with multiple illnesses. By understanding how different illnesses work together, we can find ways to lessen the amount of medicine people require.
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