Your body's daily biorhythms have a major influence over your disease risk. Chances are you know about your circadian rhythm, which impacts your wake-sleep pattern and can protect your health, or when chronically disrupted contribute to everything from anxiety to cancer and heart disease.

It turns out that your skin temperature, measured on your wrist, is another daily cycle that provides clues to your health and your risk for serious diseases.

Researchers at Penn Medicine found that continuous measurement of the variation of skin temperature on your wrist reveals a lot. Their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that the less variation in the 24-temperature cycle, the greater your risk for 73 different diseases.

For example, people with little variation in skin temperature were at a 91% greater risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, 69% increased risk for Type 2 diabetes, 23% more risk for high blood pressure, and a 25% greater risk of kidney failure.

If you're interested in looking at the data for all the conditions, the researchers put up a website called "Temperature Biorhythm Atlas."

What can keep you from flat-lining on your wrist temperature?

Protect your temperature variation with healthy lifestyle habits such as a plant-based diet, a healthy sleep schedule, plenty of physical activity (including strength building), and smart stress management (chronically elevated cortisol levels raise your temperature and your risk for chronic diseases).

Ask your doctor if monitoring your wrist skin temperature might alert you to potential health risks.