Matthew Edlund, M.D.

Doctor's Orders: Get Your Rest and RealAge

Matthew Edlund, M.D., author of "The Power of Rest: Why Sleep Alone Is Not Enough", explains the value of active resting and offers simple ways you can reclaim the lost art of resting to re-energize your mind, body, and soul.

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Dr. Matthew Edlund M.D., M.O.H., is the Rest Doctor, an internationally recognized expert on rest, sleep, biological clocks, and performance. Rest renews, rewires, and rebuilds the body much more powerfully and fully than many understand. Knowing what rest does represents a major opportunity to improve individual health and personal productivity, as well as look good, feel younger, and enjoy life more fully.

Dr. Edlund's books include: The Power of Rest: Why Sleep Alone Is Not Enough, The Body Clock Advantage, and Psychological Time and Mental Illness. Presently he is director of the Center for Circadian Medicine and the Gulf Coast Sleep Institute in Sarasota, Florida. He has worked as the writer of the syndicated column "Staying Alive," as a professor at Brown University and the University of Texas Medical Schools, as a hospital medical director, and an Asian Art museum vice president. Dr. Edlund’s work had been featured in O, the Oprah Magazine, Prevention, Shape, Redbook, Real Simple, More, and hundreds of other magazines and newspapers.

Dr. Mike Roizen

6 / 19 / 2010