Why We Sleep

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by Matthew Walker

Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.

 

 

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Description

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world – Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes – has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.

Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life – eating, drinking, and reproducing – the purpose of sleep remained elusive.

Now, in this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Okay

Cover

Paperback

Size

368 pages

Published

January 4, 2018 by Penguin Random House
First published September 28, 2017

Genre

Health, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, Self Help

Awards

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Science & Technology (2017)

Why We Sleep

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1 in stock