SLEEP: How Understanding Your Body’s Clock Can Revolutionize Your Health
The Next Big Idea
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A new book by Oxford neuroscientist Russell Foster called Lifetime, Your Body Clock and its essential roles in good health and sleep. It turns out people who slept for four hours have a higher rate of car accidents than if they were legally drunk. American culture has a troubled relationship with sleep. Thomas Jefferson slept sitting up so he could leap out of bed after just a few hours. Edgar Allan Poe complained, sleep those little slices of death, how I loathe them. And Thomas Edison reportedly dismissed sleep as quote,. a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days.
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