Life in Sync (eBook)

The Science of Internal Clocks and How We're Disrupting Them

Philippa Gander (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
151 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691271965 (ISBN)

Infos

Why we need to reconnect with nature's biological rhythmsand rediscover the benefits of a good night's sleepAll of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely on cues from the surrounding environment. With modern technology, we are changing our environmentsand by proxy, the ecosystems around usto override these innate rhythms of life. But at what cost? Life in Sync reveals how Earth's rotations shape our biology, what human sleep cycles looked like before the advent of artificial light, and why technology can't free us from the constraints of our circadian clocks.Philippa Gander explores the science behind the biological rhythms that animate us and our world, blending captivating storytelling with illuminating examples ranging from migratory birds and hibernating squirrels to jet-lagged pilots and astronauts in space. She shows how genetic circadian clocks are an ancient evolutionary adaptation that we share with all life on the planet, and how our rapidly expanding use of artificial light at night disrupts the time cues for entire ecosystems. Gander explains why cutting back on sleep adversely affects our well-being, safety, and longevity, and how breakthroughs in sleep science offer solutions to bring our lives more in harmony with nature's rhythms.An astonishing journey of scientific discovery, Life in Sync unlocks the mysteries of biological timeand offers new perspectives for anyone who has ever given up a good night's sleep for the sake of their hectic waking hours.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 31 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: 24 7 society • accidents • Actigraphy • advanced sleep phase • aging • Alertness • animal behavior • artificial light • artificial light as pollution • Astronauts • Biological adaptation • biological clocks • biological rhythms • biological synchronization • biological time • Blood pressure • Blue Light • body temperature • Brain Waves • cellular clocks • chronobiology • chronoecology • chronopharmacology • Chronotherapy • Chronotype • circadian assessment • circadian biology • circadian desynchrony • circadian genes • Circadian Lighting • circadian medicine • circadian pharmacology • circadian rhythms • circadian rhythm sleep disorders • Clock genes • Cognitive performance • comparative chronobiology • Cortisol • dawn simulation • deep sleep • delayed sleep phase • drug timing • Earth rotation • ecosystem disruption • EEG • entrainment • environmental cues • epigenetics • evolutionary adaptation • evolutionary biology • fatigue • free-running rhythms • gene expression • Genetic Clocks • geophysical cycles • growth hormone • health effects of life out of synch • Hibernation • hormonal rhythms • Immune Function • Insomnia • Internal clocks and the day • Internal clocks and the ocean tides • Internal clocks and the phases of the moon • Internal clocks and the seasons • internal timekeeping • irregular sleep-wake rhythm • jet lag • Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health • light meters • Light pollution • light therapy • living on Mars • Melatonin • Migratory Birds • modern lifestyle • Natural light • natural time clues • night cycle • nocturnal disruption • our circadian clocks • photoperiodism • planetary cycles • plant rhythms • rhythm disruption • Russell Foster • safety effects of life out of synch • seasonal affective disorder • seasonal rhythms • shift work • shift work and jet lag • sleep cycles • Sleep deprivation • Sleep Disorders • sleep health • Sleep Hygiene • sleep science • Space Biology • Suprachiasmatic nucleus • Technology Impact • temporal biology • The Circadian Code • urban ecology • why sleep • wildlife conservation
• ISBN-13: 9780691271965 / 9780691271965