The Body Clock Advantage: Finding Your Best Time of Day to Succeed In: Love, Work, Play, Exercise [Paperback]

Matthew Edlund (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

Time rules life. Now you can make time work for you.

Your body clock affects everything you do—your work performance, your health, even your love life.

Are you a night Owl, a person who cringes at the light of morning? Or are you a morning Lark, who hits your full stride early only to crave sleep just as your Owl friends begin their night?

When you understand how your own unique "body clock" works, you can achieve optimal results in every activity—whether it’s losing weight, playing sports, starting a new job, or bringing back romance.

In The Body Clock Advantage, author Matthew Edlund, M.D., —one of the world’s foremost authorities on how to use your body’s inner timing to get the most out of life— offers exciting new research and techniques to help you maximize your personal body clock. With the help of a few cutting-edge techniques ("Your Biological Time Test" and "How to Change Your Biological Time Clock"), you’ll learn how to take charge of your body rhythms—and gain more in every area of life!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It’s time for us to tune in to body time." -- Quentin Regestein, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

"The Body Clock Advantage is a tour de force..." -- Laurence R. Tancredi, M.D., J.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine

About the Author

"Body Clock" Doctor Matthew Edlund is head of the Center for Circadian Medicine and director of the Gulf Coast Sleep Institute. A former professor at the medical schools of Brown University and the University of Texas, Dr. Edlund is one of the first physicians in the United States to clinically practice body clock medicine. With training in sleep medicine (Brown), occupational health (Harvard), psychiatry (NYU-Bellevue), and internal medicine (University of California, San Diego, and Harvard), he has spent the past ten years integrating body clock medicine with programs to improve individual and public health and performance. Dr. Edlund lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580627897
• ISBN-13: 978-1580627894
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,954,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Matthew Edlund, M.D., M.O.H., is The Rest Doctor (@therestdoctor.com,) and Director of the Center for Circadian Medicine in Sarasota, Florida. A former professor at Brown and the University of Texas Medical Schools and an internationally recognized expert on sleep and biological clocks, his clinical and research work led him to recognize that rest is Regeneration, the way the body rebuilds, renews, and rewires itself. Rest is critical to health, survival, pleasure and performance. It is powerfully influenced by what we do, including the active rest techniques developed by Dr. Edlund, and the thousands of different rest techniques civilizations have created through the ages to refresh and renew body and spirit. Active Rest can be done rapidly anywhere, anytime, and can advance health by setting a rhythm to one's day and life.
Dr. Edlund's previous books include Designed to Last, The Body Clock Advantage, and Psycholgical and Mental Illness. He invites everyone to join the Rest Community on Facebook, so that others can describe the rest techniques they use to enjoy their lives.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Using the Body Clock to Our Advantage, December 19, 2002

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Suzanne F. Stoltzner, CRNA (Los Angeles, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Body Clock Advantage: Finding Your Best Time of Day to Succeed In: Love, Work, Play, Exercise (Paperback)

In this book, Dr, Edlund condenses knowledge of human circadian rhythms into an understandable and useful package. He describes how the body clock effects virtually every aspect of behavior and performance and demonstrates how just a little knowledge of the internal clock can improve function.

The "how to " information is particularly relevant to those of us who routinely tend to cut into our sleep time or subvert our body clocks just to meet the demands of daily life. ( I never realized how many accidents occur between midnight and six , for example, forty times the daytime mortality for truckers.) The author's LENS program of light, exercise, naps and socialization, offers hope for shift workers. There are also useful programs for athletes tyring to break records, students studying for exams, dieters, when all else has failed, and even terrorism prevention.

This is an amusing, easy to use, practical book. I would have liked an index and a few more scientific references but neither detracted from my enjoyment of reading it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a resource guide for the body, October 26, 2003

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Sanford Greenhouse, M.D. (Noank, Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Body Clock Advantage: Finding Your Best Time of Day to Succeed In: Love, Work, Play, Exercise (Paperback)

In my daily practice of primary care medicine, where I deal frequently with the challenging problems of obesity, sleep disorder, sexual dysfunction,inability to concentrate on tasks, fatigue, and depression, I now have another valuable resource in my armamentarium.

Dr.Edlund in very understandable language lays out a practical and sensible game plan for dealing with life's problems. His explanations of how the human body responds to time change and the variability of individuals, ie: larks vs. owls, is intriguing. How to harness time and use it to one's advantage by being cognizant of the effects of light vs. dark hours and manipulate these effects with light boxes can certainly improve the quality of one's life.

Dr. Edlund's expertise on diet, exercise, sleep, and pharmacology helps the reader adjust his lifestyle for a healthier existence. This book offers something positive for everyone. It serves as a user's guide for the body.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's fun and easy!, January 4, 2003

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Sheri Duffey (Odessa, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Body Clock Advantage: Finding Your Best Time of Day to Succeed In: Love, Work, Play, Exercise (Paperback)

The Body Clock Advantage is easy to read and offers practical advice on a variety of subjects. Dr. Edlund offers nuts and bolts solutions for a variety of challenges facing modern people such as reducing jet jag, improving romantic relationships, and establishing a pain free exercise program. The writing style keeps your attention throughout the book (I read it in less than 3 days!). He weaves real life examples into the advice so it's easy to "get the point" and see the value of using your body clock to your advantage.
It's hard to pick a favorite section because so many apply. I discovered that my husband is an owl and that I'm not ... I now have practical things to help me if I want to stay up late with him. I particularly enjoyed the section on not only WHY to fit breakfast into my busy day, but HOW to do it. I followed the advice and feel better at work already! I'm going to recommend this book to family, friends, and coworkers! It can help eveyone and it's easy!