{"id":1071,"date":"2009-03-14T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2009-03-14T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T01:28:56","slug":"sex-sllep-eat-drink-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/books\/sex-sllep-eat-drink-dream","title":{"rendered":"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547085605?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0547085605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/reviews\/41PW1f5rQnL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547085605?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0547085605\">Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0547085605\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nJennifer Ackerman takes you through a day starting with a detailed description of waking in the morning and finishing with just as detailed a description of going to sleep in the evening. Throughout she mixes obsrevations, quips, and the reports of scientific studies to keep the reader interested and entertained. Here&#8217;s an example: &#8220;It&#8217;s true the brain is good at processing sound while we sleep; that&#8217;s why we buy audible alarm clocks.  We don&#8217;t buy odor alarms for equally good reason. Though some people swear they  are aroused form deep sleep by the putrid stink of skunk or the heady  aroma of percolating coffee, a new study suggests otherwise: Scientists at Brown University documented a complete failure of response during all but the earliest phase of sleep to powerful odors such as peppermint and the distinctly noxious pyridine, a component of coal tar often used as a herbicide for firewood. Don&#8217;t count on the nose as a sentinel system, say the researchers: &#8220;Human olfaction is not reliably capable of alerting a sleeper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>References to  the effects of time of day on what we do, what we can accomplish, and even on our reactions to medicines &#8211; chronotherapy, are throughout the text. The science is well documented and blended with familiar, common occurrences. This was a pleasure to read.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body Jennifer Ackerman takes you through a day starting with a detailed description of waking in the morning and finishing with just as detailed a description of going to sleep in the evening. 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