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Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep
"Full of surprising and useful facts. . . . Unlike many science books with similar subtitles, it really might 'revolutionise' your life."--James McConnachie, Times (UK)
"A comprehensive manifesto for living in harmony with our body clocks, penned by someone who has devoted his career to studying them."--Financial Times
Biological clocks are embedded in every aspect of human biology, guiding us toward the prime times of day to sleep, eat, think, and work. Award-winning scientist Russell Foster brings decades of study to this journey through the circadian rhythms that dominate our days and nights. He shows how the realities of 24/7 life--including night-shift work, overbooked calendars, and caring for newborns--disrupt the body clock, taking a toll on sleep and on mental and physical health.
By dismantling long-standing myths and citing cutting-edge science, Foster empowers readers to get back into rhythm and live healthier, sharper lives: scheduling meals to prevent obesity and diabetes; timing medications to increase their effectiveness; getting better sleep through exposure to natural light; and much more. "If you want to embrace life," Foster writes, "then embracing biological time will help you do this."
Book Details
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: Aug 22nd, 2023
- Pages: 480
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.24in - 1.08in - 1.14lb
- EAN: 9780300274059
- Categories: • Life Sciences - Biology• Time• Sleep Medicine
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Out for a pre breakfast walk, just one lesson I’ve taken from Russell Foster’s excellent book on circadian rhythms and sleep
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Praise for this book
"Respecting our natural bodily rhythms really, really matters. . . . This is an exemplary popular science book in many ways. It is readable. Full of surprising and useful facts. Rigorously evidence-based (there are no fewer than 921 references, all safely corralled at the back). Unlike many science books with similar subtitles, it really might 'revolutionise' your life."--James McConnachie, Times (UK)
"A comprehensive manifesto for living in harmony with our body clocks, penned by someone who has devoted his career to studying them."―Financial Times
"Life Time should certainly be mandatory reading for night-shift workers, but its messages are so universal that it would be hard not to gain some sleep smarts from its pages, whoever you are."--Alex Wilkins, New Scientist
"Almost all of us would benefit from this revelatory guide by a world-leading expert on circadian neuroscience."--The Bookseller, Editor's Choice
"Russell Foster takes the reader on a vivid and knowledgeable quest to understand sleep and biological rhythms that is part scientific treatise, part self-help guide, and part plea for societal and personal lifestyle changes that better prioritize these biological functions."--Manon Torres and Achim Kramer, Science
"Renowned British scientist Foster provides non-medical readers with a useful treatise on sleep and the circadian rhythms affecting all biological organisms. . . . Highly recommended."--T. D. DeLapp, Choice
"A superlative guide to some of the most intriguing questions of human existence."--Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything
"This book has the answers to everything you've ever wondered about your natural rhythms, from sleep to eating to exercise. Excellent, engaging and evidence-based, it's a brilliant guide to an aspect of our health we don't think about enough."--Claudia Hammond, author of The Art of Rest
"Strongly recommended. You will sleep more deeply, be awake more fully, and live much more harmoniously with Russell Foster's help."--Anthony Seldon, author of The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister
"Life Time not only communicates but also translates the science of body clocks and sleep: using the insights and advice in this book, readers may improve health, happiness and wellbeing in our 24/7 society."--Thomas C. Erren, MD, University of Cologne