Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Audiobook (Free)

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Penguin presents the audiobook model of As to why We Rest by Matthew Walker, browse by John Sackville.

Includes a bonus PDF of graphs and diagrams.

Sleep is among the most significant aspects of our existence, health and longevity and yet it really is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed globe – about Why We Sleep: The New Science of Rest and Dreams Alzheimer’s, tumor, obesity, diabetes – has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.

Until very recently, technology had no response to the issue of why we rest, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to your health. Compared to the other simple drives in lifestyle – eating, taking in, and reproducing – the goal of sleep remained elusive.

Now, with this book, the to begin its kind compiled by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores two decades of cutting-edge research to resolve the secret of why sleep matters. Looking at animals from over the animal kingdom aswell as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves in to from what actually occurs during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcoholic beverages affect rest and just why our rest patterns switch across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our lifetime.

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