Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
ISBN-10
0618187588
ISBN-13
9780618187584
Category
Biological rhythms
Pages
253
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Jennifer Ackerman

Description

Follows a typical day in the life of the human body, from the early morning wakeup to the nighttime return to sleep, revealing the rhythmic cycles that control the body and demonstrating the importance of synchronizing one's actions to these biological rhythms.

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