Journalist Lynne Peeples reveals the cutting-edge research of how our circadian rhythms are
threatened by modern lifestyles and the scientifically proven ways we can reset our body clocks
- before it's too late. At this very moment a symphony of tiny timepieces is ticking
throughout your body - in your stomach and skin in your liver and lungs even in your legs.
Orchestrating this round-the-clock production is a master timekeeper in your brain. What
happens when these circadian rhythms are out of tune? How has our modern lifestyle led to an
epidemic of broken body clocks? And how can we reverse it? In Clock Wise journalist Lynne
Peeples travels around the world to discover the ways in which our circadian clocks affect our
days - and our nights. Speaking to biologists professional athletes surgeons astronomers
software developers and sleep scientists she reveals the cutting-edge research that is newly
available about the powerful sway circadian rhythms have on our bodies and our cultures.
References to a circadian clock date back to the ancient Greeks but research has only recently
exposed its complex machinery and the astounding breadth of its functions and only in the last
few years have we begun connecting the dots and developing the tools to put all of this
information to use. Threats to our body clocks abound: artificial light air pollution jet
lag late-night meals and a myriad of other modern insults. But we can also harness our
internal rhythms to our advantage - learning the optimal time to take medication schedule a
job interview or eat dinner. The time has come to reckon with the effects of circadian cycles
on our minds bodies and societies.
