Russell Foster's guide to all we know about the body’s circadian rhythms should be mandatory reading for night-shift workers, but its messages are universal
, the Space Shuttle Challenger accident and the fatal 2001 Selby rail crash in Yorkshire, UK, are all human-caused disasters. Less well known is the role that sleep deprivation played in all of them., a guide to all we know about the body’s circadian rhythms. These 24-hour clocks affect everything from mental health to the risk of cancer and obesity.is the wheel keeping our circadian rhythms on track and when it goes awry, the body falls apart.
This plays a role in an immense list of ailments, including heart disease, dementia, cognitive performance, infertility and obesity. So the lack of public awareness is, writes Foster, an urgent problem. Foster has devoted his scientific career to studying how these inner rhythms affect the body and is full of advice for how we might better live in sync with them. Though much of the science is complex, he keeps it relatively light with a generous dose of anecdotes and humour. Several sections are a little too dense, such as a lengthy one on SCRD and urinating at night, but just skip over them.
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