Reviewed by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD Don't let this long title scare you. This straightforward book, by Michael Smolensky and Lynne Lamberg, is about a new area of medicine called chronomedicine and a new approach to treatment called chronotherapy.
Illnesses disrupt normal body rhythms.
The signs and symptoms of illness may vary over the day, the month, or the year. Timing sleep, timing meals, timing exercise, and timing medication all affect overall health. Chronotherapy uses the information we have about our biological clocks to optimize treatment. Chronotherapy is currently used in the treatment of asthma, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, heartburn, and heart disease, to name just a few. It also has an excellent explanation of what biological rhythms are and how they affect everything we do.