Lights Out

Lights Out With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby deliver staggering findings: Americans really are sick from being tired. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in our population. We're literally dying for a good night's sleep. Our lifestyle wasn't always this way. It began with the invention of the lightbulb. When we don't get enough sleep in sync with seasonal light exposure, we fundamentally alter a balance of nature that has been programmed into our physiology since Day One. This delicate biological rhythm rules the hormones and neurotransmitters that determine appetite, fertility, and mental and physical health. When we rely on artificial light to extend our day until 11 PM, midnight, and beyond, we fool our bodies into living in a perpetual state of summer. Anticipating the scarce food supply and forced inactivity of winter, our bodies begin storing fat and slowing metabolism to sustain us through the months of hibernation and hunger that never arrive. Our own survival instinct, honed over millennia, is now killing us. Wiley and Formby also reveal:

• That studies from our own government research prove the role of sleeplessness in diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, mental illness, and premature aging;
• Why the carbohydrate-rich diets recommended by many health professionals are not only ridiculously ineffective but deadly;
• Why the lifesaving information that can turn things around is one of the best-kept secrets of our day.

Lights Out is one wake-up call none of us can afford to miss.

T.S. Wiley has been a writer and researcher in endocrinology, molecular biology, biophysics, and genomics for more than two decades. She is a noted speaker and educator who has testified on women's health at the US Senate as well as presented her published research at Harvard Medical School. Her independent research has been published in the Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, and Experimental Cell Research, among others, and her second book, Sex, Lies and Menopause (Harper Collins, 2003), is influential in the anti-aging community. As a pharmaceutical designer of drugs, she holds a patent on the Wiley Protocol and is CEO of Wiley Systems. She is a blogger for the Huffington Post, who divides her time between Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and New York City. She is mother to five children and grandmother to five grandchildren.

INTRODUCTION PART I SECRETS AND LIES ONE WE WANT TO BELIEVE: The Church of False Gods TWO INTO THE DARK: An Extinction-Level Event PART II WE ARE NOT ALONE THREE EARTHLING AUTOPSY Environment Controls the Genetics of Obesity FOUR ON ICE: Evolution, Biophysics, and the Dark PART III THE TRUTH IS IN HERE FIVE DENY EVERYTHING: Sleep Controls Appetite: Therefore Obesity, Adult Onset Diabetes, and Hypertension SIX IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD: No Sleep and Too Much Sugar Make You Go Crazy SEVEN THE BEST PLACE TO HIDE A LIE IS BETWEEN TWO TRUTHS:How the Biggest Clock in Your Body Stops EIGHT 10 SECONDS TO SELF-DESTRUCT: In the Evolutionary Scheme of Things, Cancer Is Just the New You PART IV ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE NINE DAMAGE CONTROL: The Rhythm Method of Eating to Sidestep Extinction TEN BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID: We Are a Species in Peril ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READING GLOSSARY INDEX