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Another sleep study? I don't think sleep is always a one size fits all proposition. Who can ever know what is happening within a person's body at any given time? Lack of sleep is just one factor among hundreds or thousands that may or may not have longer term effects for any one person. For sure, drugs can never fix the problem or any problem for that matter.

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Sleep deprivation has been used for many years when interrogating POWs. I remember a time when zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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I’d love to receive this newsletter at 6:30, if possible.

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Simple change to social expectations to allow taking a mid-day nap. Catch up on a little bit of sleep and regenerate on an as-needed basis. Do not allow "getting enough sleep" to be another anxiety-producing task that MUST BE DONE NOW when bedtime comes. Working from home during COVID has allowed me to see that new, creative ideas have come to me after taking a nap. And narrative writing is often better structured after I have "slept on it".

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I’m a night owl with a day job. I begin my day @ 9 am and sometimes my last client leaves @ 7 pm. Even though I have breaks in between and even take a nap occasionally, going to bed @ 9:30/10 pm can be hard right after dinner. However, I have noticed that if I have a small glass of wine at dinner that I seep like a log, otherwise I toss all night.

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As someone whose sleep habits are inconsistent, this article — particularly the last point on an increased chance of Alzheimer’s and other neuro-degenerative diseases — was not encouraging to say the least. But it is an overdue reminder to myself that that there far fewer things worth missing sleep for than I’d like to admit.

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Love the new format where the comments are at the end of the newsletter! Always try to sleep 7-9 hours per night so to bed early and up by 6am daily.

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Unsurprising that the TikTok backlash for Gordon Ramsay is because he appeared to select a lamb to be slaughtered. Lambs are cute and people like to distance their animal protein eating from the killing of the animal from whence it comes, particularly when the animal is cute. Now lobsters, they're gross looking. You can point at one and select it for execution from the tank all day long and nobody bats an eye. Those ugly sea bugs deserve it. Mmmm.. Lobster...

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Thank you, I will

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I live in China so I see it at 7:00pm my time.

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Here’s a sobering thought, researchers say sleep deprivation is worse than being drunk behind the wheel. So the next time you are out and about remember roughly half of those around you are worse than drunk.!

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Another benefit of leaving the workforce. I probably get too much sleep.

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Just a friendly reminder that sleep isn’t always a choice or something over which people have control. Someone I love dearly has struggled with a sleep disorder for years. (Please, no unsolicited advice — they’ve tried all the things, seen all the people, spent all the money.) I am keenly aware of the risks and desperately hope some of these statistics won’t apply to my loved one, because it’s a health challenge over which they have no control rather than a lifestyle choice.

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Hey, Bill! I trust that's not a photo of you sleeping or resting quietly in the middle of a road. If it's not, I feel better and will remark about my sleep habits and their visible effects over a period of more than 15 years from about 1991 to 2006. Struggling in a desperate attempt to complete an "impossible to complete" personal project during that time, I often (always?) slept for only 3 to 4 hours a night. While that might have been detrimental to many people's mental capacity, I successfully completed the project with a clear mind and a high degree of insight. I'm not sure why I was successful, because during most of those 15 years I thought I was never going to properly complete the task. But having become a spiritual individual during that period, I believed (and still believe) I had some heavenly help. Am I crazy unusual?

About Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, I have some strong opinions about the chicken-hearted warnings from some of our government people. As I see the situation, since Xi's ascension to power, China has been actively belligerent only in its own country. Outside of its own territory, such as in the South China Seas, the Communist power has been belligerent only with verbal threats and military efforts at looking fierce. For years now it has threatened Taiwan with air excursions, but only up to the implicit demarcation line roughly halfway between the two powers. It apparently never intrudes further. And its live fire exercises never do any damage (except to our government's resolve to confront it). Therefore, I harbor a suspicion and a theory that the country is a "paper tiger." The US has been more than reluctant to test that theory, fearful of the dire consequences. However, by failing to do so, we are giving permission to China to continue their "game." I love that Pelosi is testing the "fearsome" nation. By her act of courage she has regained my long-ago-lost support for her. More power (and safety) to her!

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I do have rather unusual, inconsistent sleeping habits. Usually after getting home after working all day at Walmart (cashier), I lay down in bed and end up falling asleep. I wake up three or four hours later, am wide awake so I do stuff on my phone and computer (often writing movie scripts or doing other writing-related activities) and then if I'm still not feeling tired, I often take Melatonin or other sleep aids so I can fall asleep. So total sleep times ends up being six to seven hours. But on my days off, I get seven to eight hours of sleep. It's not ideal but hey, it's a vast improvement over my 'raging alcoholic' days when I'd drink until I passed out and frequently missed work because I was too tired from getting drunk the previous night.

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