Life Time, Russell Foster
Life Time, Russell Foster
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Life Time
Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep

Author: Russell Foster

Narrator: Russell Foster

Unabridged: 11 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/30/2022


Synopsis

A fascinating journey through our circadian rhythms, sleep, and health, by a world-leading expert on circadian neuroscience

The routines of our modern lives—home working, night shifts, technology—are playing havoc with our body clocks, sleep patterns, and health. Packed with cutting edge science, this book by award-winning scientist Russell Foster takes the listener on a journey through our days and nights, and explains how we can get back into rhythm and live healthier, sharper lives.

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of discoveries around the science of the body clock and our twenty-four-hour biological cycles. Sleep and daily rhythms emerge from our genetics, physiology, behavior, and the environment. Like most of our behaviors, they are not fixed. These rhythms are modified by our actions, how we interact with the environment, and how we progress from birth to old age.

Cutting through long-standing myths, Foster empowers listeners by providing concrete information and guidance that can be used to understand what makes the body clock "tick."

About Russell Foster

Russell Foster is professor of circadian neuroscience, director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), and head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. An acclaimed scientist, Foster has been elected to the Royal Society.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ted

I picked this up thinking it would be a nice, easy self-help book about getting better sleep. It was, in fact, a hard science deep dive into the mechanics of circadian rhythms, light patterns and human biology. Russell Foster opens the book with some simple ground rules. Everyone is different. There......more

Goodreads review by Richard

There's a lot of information here - some that I already knew but a lot of new things too, more than I can possibly remember. I was happy to learn that I am mostly doing it right - taking my meds at the right time of day, sleeping well enough that I don't have to worry, exercising at the right time o......more

This was super interesting! It's the nonfiction book I didn't know I wanted to read until I read it. I started it hoping it'd shock me into going to bed earlier, because I'd been staying up way too late when I started this (mainly because of reading heehee). And it kind of worked I suppose, because......more