Sleep groove Why your body's clock is so messed up and what to do about it
Book - 2025
"Sleep Groove introduces readers to the easy-to-understand but often misunderstood concepts and science behind circadian rhythms and how changes in daily habits can greatly improve one's sleep patterns and quality of life. Through conversational writing, humorous analogies, charts, and even comics, this book helps explain the nuances of sleep using the latest in sleep research and technology, delving into sleep-related issues like light sensitivity, jet lag, daylight savings time, napping, and how to establishing rhythmicity in our waking and sleeping routines. This illustrated guide to all things sleep takes aim at many of our long-held myths surrounding sleep and provides an easy-to-understand guide to what exactly is going on i...n the third of our lives we spend sleeping, posing questions like: Do we really need eight hours of sleep each night? What happens if you stay awake for 205 hours? Is REM sleep the only kind of sleep that matters? For anyone who has wondered why their sleep is so weird and what they can do about it, this book is the perfect guide to finding your own personal sleep groove. " --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Informational works
Documents d'information - Published
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Kansas City, Missouri :
Andrews McMeel Publishing
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xxii, 154 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-154).
- ISBN
- 9781524892951
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Back to Me
- Why "Groove"?
- What to Expect Ahead
- A Couple Disclaimers
- What if I Just Stop Sleeping?
- You're Welcome to Try, Buddy
- A Thing on the Internet is Wrong about Something
- Do You Die?
- Chronic Sleep Restriction
- The U-Shaped Curve
- Sleep Debt
- People Who Live in Pre-Industrial Societies Don't (Always) Sleep Eight Hours
- The Contradictions of Sleep
- People are Measuring Sleep in Completely Different Ways
- Sleep Need isn't One-Size-Fits-All
- Sleep Health is Not (Just) Sleep Duration
- Read this Chapter If You Want to Fall Asleep
- Slicing and Dicing a Night of Sleep
- Groove 101
- Timing Signals
- Entraining Your Body's Rhythms
- Going Off the Rails
- Rhythms can Interfere with Each Other
- When a Groove Breaks Down
- Circadian Disruption and Sleep Regularity are Different Things
- Domains of Sleep Health
- Why You Sleep When You Sleep, or the Two-Process Model
- Light is a Drug
- What You See without Knowing You're Seeing It
- The Sun Is, It Turns Out, Really Very Bright
- Do I Need a Big Burst of Light First Thing When I Wake Up?
- On Darkness
- The Extremely Light-Sensitive
- Time is Fake: Chronotypes, Jet Lag, and Shift Work
- Time is Fake
- A Study I Really Wish I had been a Part of
- No, We Should Not Do Permanent Daylight Saving Time
- We Now Must Define a Chronotype
- What's Jet Lag?
- School Start Times, or We are Being Cruel to the Youth
- It's Okay to be a Night Owl (to a Point)
- Shift Work is a Public Health Crisis
- Who Cares About (Local) Time
- But If You've Got Insomnia
- What You Should Do Instead
- Naps
- Alarms Aren't All Bad
- Your Whole Body is Clocks
- Bad Brain Time: Circadian Rhythms and Mood
- Food as a Timing Signal
- Fertility, Pre-Term Birth, and Your Body's Clock
- The Best Time to be Good at Sports
- Circadian Medicine
- When You Take a Pill and it Makes You Worse
- Shifting Yourself
- Just Having a Better Circadian Clock is Good Too
- A Circadian Future
- Quit it with the No-Sleep Bragging Already
- Better Lighting at School, Work, and in the Hospital
- How We Could Do Better by Shift Workers
- Circadian Medicine, for Real
- How I Sleep
- Sleeping Better
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Selected References