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- As a single mom from day one of my daughter''s arrival, I can verify your findings. My daughter has never been a big sleeper and because of having to be the only one that answers that cry, I didn''t get to start sleeping through the night until she turned 3 yrs old. This last year, I get to sleep about every third day or so. I''ve gained 20 lbs for the first time in my life, my blood pressure is up and my brain is shot (although I am hoping it''s coming back now that I do get to sleep once in ahile.)I would love to see more on this subject, especially the effect that sleep depriviation has on new mothers, because we are out there driving on the road too.
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- The report does nothing to help anyone who suffer serious sleep disorders. The report leaves out sleep apnea, people who have to work a night shift,migraines, death in the family, low self esteem, general depression, urban noise (Think Frank Sinatra''s New York, New York -"I want to wake up in the City that Never Sleeps?") This country profits from a multi-billion dollar industry called Starbucks, and the Meth and Cocaine epidemics. Where were any of these issues presented? Between a 2 part report -Pharmaceutical Ads on sleeping pills? Why didn''t the clinic use people who actually have sleep problems? Do we really care how healthy people who volunteer for testing really react to anything? What was this report really revealing? Was the report just showing how they process small studies? You might as well do a report on bio-rhythms or the way acupuncture needles affect the skin.
Why not conduct the report after assessing what viewers know of the subject and then present these questions to the amazing scientist in the white lab coat beeping the college kid out his delta waves? - Reply to this comment
Boy, I''m really sleepy now.- Reply to this comment
- As interesting as the news article was there are some questions that come to mind regarding the the testing. After years of participating in meditation which when effectively and routinely excercised one learns to get into the gap or a state of alfa. Those that do practice meditiation in this manner can get by, and are among the most productive human beings on the planet, without much sleep at all.I guess the question and comment is have these groups that did this study tested this. If not, it would be interesting to see the results if they would spend the time to study what seems like, but really isn''t a phenomena, the effectiveness of those who can get by without almost no sleep what so ever. ANy comments of your own?
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- Unfortunately, the research presented by Ms Stahl are the usual interesting but medically worthless stuff that permeates our press. I''m sorry that 60 minutes have some to this type of uncritical journalism. People have been doing sleep research for years. Where is the data that shows that people who feel refreshed after 4 hrs of sleep is more likely to do something bad than people who sleep eight hrs? Then to use fMRI as a quantitative measure of something wrong--where is the data that fMRI can be used quantitatively this way? Finally, that fruitfly story is just ridiculous--if I prevented you from sleeping for days on end, you''d probably not be interested in *** either. Who needs to fund his research at hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn this? Unfortunately, much of biological research dollars are funding predictable and worthless nonsense like this--following accepted scientific research methodologies of course. Perhaps 60 minutes can do a expose on what kind of nonsense we are funding these days.
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- They sat this guy down and said "Make up
something about sleep for the people.". - Reply to this comment
- Isn''t it odd that after tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (routinely performed on children almost as a rite of passage until the 1950s) came under fire and was practically stopped being done, we eventually developed epidemic problems with obesity and diabetes?
In my opinion, it''s not a coincidence. Sleep disordered breathing (and all of it''s sequelae) is the result of this monumental medical decision. - Reply to this comment
- Has anyone herd of EarthPulse Technologies, Sleep on Command. It is an electronic machine that sends magnetic waves through your brain and controles your sleep. Just wanted to know if anyone had any info. on this.
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- Your sleep story was very interesting,but one thing not mentioned was the fact that maybe sleep is protecting a person''s mental state. In five years I lost my mother, my daughter and my son. Instead of turning into a basket case, I found I needed to sleep every couple of hours. A trip to the store wore me out. Back home I headed for the bed and fell into a deep sleep. This was repeated for a couple of years receeding bit by bit. Fighting this did no good, I could find myself about to fall asleep on my feet. So I stopped fighting it and to this day, I''m still getting better, tho I do get at least 8 hrs of sleep, plus a mid day nap.
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- The most culpable element of modern life in our sleep deprivation is the alarm clock. Nobody should be required to awake because of an alarm clock!
We do have internal clocks which can be amazingly accurate in waking us up when we tell them to. If we didn''t rely on alarm clocks, we''d go to bed earlier; and populations with different natural sleep regimes, like teenagers, wouldn''t be asked to show up someplace like school, before they''re had enough sleep according to their real needs.
By the way, if the people who wanted to slash our sleep need could get their way, one of the first harmful effects would be that our use of fuels would jump to light the environments of the people suddenly sleeping less and wanting to do things requiring sight. - Reply to this comment
