Inner Time: The Science of Body Clocks and What Makes Us Tick
Language: English
Published by Birch Lane Pr, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1993
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- Title
- Inner Time: The Science of Body Clocks and What Makes Us Tick
- Author
- Orlock, Carol
- Publisher
- Birch Lane Pr, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Cloth Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1559721944
- ISBN 13
- 9781559721943
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Science, Self-Help
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The whys and wherefores of our inner clocks, zestfully presented by journalist and novelist Orlock (The Goddess Letters, 1987). You say hello, and I say goodbye. So it goes, for people's body clocks are rarely in sync--and, according to Orlock, these internal timekeepers control just about everything we think, feel, or do. Chronobiology has uncovered over a hundred biological rhythms so far, with more on the way. They fall into three categories: ultradian (short--e.g., the firing of neurons); circadian (24-hour--e.g., the wake-sleep cycle); and infradian (long--e.g., the menstrual cycle or--the longest of them all--the life/death cycle). Orlock's jaunty tour of this fledgling science includes plenty of ethology, including Darwin's studies of biorhythms in plants and earthworms. The focus, however, is on humans--who appear to be a lot like puppets tugged by chemical strings. Migraines, calorie intake, alacrity of thought--all bow before internal cycles. Some facts amaze: when asleep, we ordinarily ``breathe through one nostril for three hours, with the tissue in the other nostril slightly engorged, then we switch''; more sobering is Orlock's discussion of the millions of Americans who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder--serious depression brought on by winter. To battle the cycle blues, Orlock proffers plenty of advice: If you want to lose weight, eat in the morning; for best sex, wait until October; to cure jet lag, splash yourself with sunbeams. How to tell inner time--and how to beat the clock. Fun. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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