Lights Out
With research gleaned from the National Institutes of
Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby deliver staggering
findings: Americans really are sick from being tired.
Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in
our population. We're literally dying for a good night's
sleep.
Our lifestyle wasn't always this way. It began with the
invention of the lightbulb.
When we don't get enough sleep in sync with seasonal light
exposure, we fundamentally alter a balance of nature that has
been programmed into our physiology since Day One. This
delicate biological rhythm rules the hormones and
neurotransmitters that determine appetite, fertility, and
mental and physical health. When we rely on artificial light
to extend our day until 11 PM, midnight, and beyond, we fool
our bodies into living in a perpetual state of summer.
Anticipating the scarce food supply and forced inactivity of
winter, our bodies begin storing fat and slowing metabolism
to sustain us through the months of hibernation and hunger
that never arrive.
Our own survival instinct, honed over millennia, is now
killing us.
Wiley and Formby also reveal: