I browsed Arianna Huffington's
The Sleep Revolution for about five minutes, covering the first 40 pages. We need to get more sleep. There, saved you the trouble. My wife says there is a more scientific part farther on, referencing studies. My feeling is, if you can't get to the good part in forty pages, there is no good part.
40 pages did NOT put you to sleep? Iron Man!
ReplyDeleteSkimmed it. As you did with my post, apparently.
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And I skimmed a few studies that are starting to say that TOO MUCH sleep is actually bad for you. Mind you, as I read them (will hunt down the links for you later), one has to puzzle out the reasons for the too much sleep. Depression, or being ill, or starting to get ill, or just hiding away from a horrible stressful life (which in turn contributes to things that kill you earlier).
ReplyDeleteI'm someone who has always got too little sleep (and got a fair amount of work done, and fitted in my hobbies and interests when everyone else was asleep,after chores) I am so ignorant, and life is so short. There is always something I want to learn more about, always something I lwould rather read than go to bed an hour earlier....
http://www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(16)30010-9/pdf
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082301
you may be dubious about the last site, but some of the points in the article are good http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/12/10/dangers-sleeping-too-much.aspx
@ Retriever - good pickup. The people getting too much sleep might have depression or some energy-draining medical condition, or be on pain meds, so the results could be skewed. Still, it could be true. "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands..." Proverbs
ReplyDeleteAs for nih, I trust them moderately. I trust them to be trying to be honest and independent, but not seeing that they are subject to the tides of national POV's. I accept their understandings, while applying the discount that there is likely an opposite or unpopular view that has not been studied.
Sam L - that was meant jovially. Rereading it today, that might not be clear. Just checking.
ReplyDeleteIt's the mercola link she thought we'd be leery of. Rightfully so
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ReplyDelete:) Belatedly , Happy thanksgiving, Donna! I was foggy brained, fighting off the flu, which at last is chomping me in its jaws with great satisfaction. You know how you remember reading certain bullet points but can't find where, and then they show up in places that advocate crystals and homeopathy. Aaah.
DeleteIt must be because I had no children, but I've never been in the habit of depriving myself of sleep. It's extremely rare for me to use an alarm clock and always has been--it takes an unusually early meeting or plane flight to do it. I sleep until I'm ready to wake up.
ReplyDeleteAVI, I guess it's a good thing I didn't get back until today! Nah; I knew you were riffing on my comment.
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