Time of day metabolism and endocrine regulation of immune health
6 affiliations
- 1Independent Researcher, Bangalore, India
- 2Biopatrika, Haryana, India
- 3National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Department of Pharmaceutics, Sahibzada AjitSingh Nagar, India
- 4University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- 5Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
- 6Belle Sante Institute of Functional Medicine, Bangalore, India
Abstract
The immune system is a dynamic, energy-dependent network regulated by temporal biology. Advances in circadian biology have enabled the synchronizing of critical immune parameters such as metabolism, endocrine secretions, surveillance, tissue repair, and adaptation to environmental cycles. Here, we propose a metabolomic, and endocrine, chromodynamic model of immune health, based on time-of-day rhythms. Immune resilience is defined by synchronization among three groups of oscillators i) the central circadian clocks, ii) food-entrainable metabolic oscillators, iii) peripheral cellular clocks. The model provides a framework to optimize these interconnected systems to maintain metabolic efficiency, minimize unnecessary inflammation, and enable precise immune responses through temporal gating. External factors of modern lifestyle disruptions, including irregular feeding patterns, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress, induce internal circadian desynchrony, contributing to persistent low-grade inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, immune aging, and chronic non-communicable diseases. We propose that immune health is characterized not merely by the absence of disease, but by stable circadian phase coherence, low inflammatory noise, and adaptive immune resilience. We have listed some chrono-biomarkers of metabolomic and endocrine parameters that may provide a functional assessment of immune resilience, defined by inflammatory tone, immune adaptability, metabolic integrity, and repair capacity. This framework integrates chronobiology, endocrine and immunometabolism to shift medicine from reactive disease management toward proactive assessment and restoration of biological resilience.
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BibTeX
@article{hattangady2026time,
title = {{Time of day metabolism and endocrine regulation of immune health}},
author = {Ashok Hattangady and Virender Singh and Chirag Gala and Narendra Chirmule and Narendra Chirmule and Vivek Kadambi},
journal = {Frontiers in Molecular Medicine},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.3389/fmmed.2026.1982547},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fmmed.2026.1982547},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Time of day metabolism and endocrine regulation of immune health
AU - Ashok Hattangady
AU - Virender Singh
AU - Chirag Gala
AU - Narendra Chirmule
AU - Narendra Chirmule
AU - Vivek Kadambi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/27
JO - Frontiers in Molecular Medicine
DO - 10.3389/fmmed.2026.1982547
UR - https://doi.org/10.3389/fmmed.2026.1982547
AB - The immune system is a dynamic, energy-dependent network regulated by temporal biology. Advances in circadian biology have enabled the synchronizing of critical immune parameters such as metabolism, endocrine secretions, surveillance, tissue repair, and adaptation to environmental cycles. Here, we propose a metabolomic, and endocrine, chromodynamic model of immune health, based on time-of-day rhythms. Immune resilience is defined by synchronization among three groups of oscillators i) the central circadian clocks, ii) food-entrainable metabolic oscillators, iii) peripheral cellular clocks. The model provides a framework to optimize these interconnected systems to maintain metabolic efficiency, minimize unnecessary inflammation, and enable precise immune responses through temporal gating. External factors of modern lifestyle disruptions, including irregular feeding patterns, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress, induce internal circadian desynchrony, contributing to persistent low-grade inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, immune aging, and chronic non-communicable diseases. We propose that immune health is characterized not merely by the absence of disease, but by stable circadian phase coherence, low inflammatory noise, and adaptive immune resilience. We have listed some chrono-biomarkers of metabolomic and endocrine parameters that may provide a functional assessment of immune resilience, defined by inflammatory tone, immune adaptability, metabolic integrity, and repair capacity. This framework integrates chronobiology, endocrine and immunometabolism to shift medicine from reactive disease management toward proactive assessment and restoration of biological resilience.
SN - 2674-0095
ER -