Why We Sleep

✍ Scribed by Walker, Matthew

• Book ID: 110011684
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141983776

✦ Synopsis

'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans

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Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.

In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as...