You don’t have one clock either
Modern longevity science has become fascinated by biological clocks.
But the human body already contains clocks.

• Circadian rhythms.

• Hormonal pulses.

• Sleep cycles.

• Feeding rhythms.

• Body-temperature rhythms.

• Autonomic rhythms.

• Cellular oscillations.

• Organ timing.

• Repair cycles.

 

These clocks do not merely measure biology.
They help organise it.
16×1 distinguishes between:
Clocks that estimate ageing
and
Clocks that govern the biology that ages
Your body is a timed organism.
Hormones rise and fall.
Tissues become more or less responsive at different times.
Sleep changes physiology.
Light alters signalling.
Food timing alters metabolism.
Activity alters endocrine and neurological communication.
The young body doesn’t merely work well. It keeps good time.
Clockwork Theory explores what happens when biological timing remains coherent — and what happens when that timing becomes fragmented.
We call this quality of biological timing:
TEMPORAL INTEGRITY
Ageing may therefore involve not only structural deterioration, but increasing loss of biological coordination.