Life TimeRussell Foster
Life Time
by Russell Foster · first published 2022
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I enjoyed reading Life Time by Russell Foster [1]. Professor Foster is the Head of Oxford’s Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the founder and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Institute. In it he covers lots of…
on “Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on human sleep?” ↗…inactivity – individuals avoid movement within an environment to which they are poorly adapted, but then use this time to undertake essential housekeeping functions demanded by their physiology." From Life Time by Russell Foster. Still one of the most lucid and well-written books on sleep I've ever read.
on “Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria” ↗If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.
on “The Two Sleeps” ↗