Some people try to achieve immortality by doing brilliant things but i decided to achieve it by staying alive as long as possible and it seem,s like I am on the right track because I have suffered some insomnia most of my adult life.
Researchers at the University College London and University of Warwick have been studying mortality rates and cross referencing them with sleeping habits and found that that sleeping eight hours or more doubles the mortality risk from all causes.
The scientists concluded that sleeping for 10 hours or more per night leads to a 30% higher risk of dying compared to getting just seven hours. They also found that the participants were 56% and 49% more likely to die from a stroke and cardiovascular disease.
Their definition of oversleeping is sleeping more than nine hours in a day with prolonged oversleeping increasing inflammation and hinders the immune system so how much sleep do they think we actually need?
The daily recommended amount of sleep that people should get depends on your age so children and teens need to sleep longer because sleep is when brain development and growth occur but for adults between 18 and 60 years old seven hours is the recommended amount and above 60 you should get eight hours.
Before I could woohoo and start planning my 100th Birthday Party, it does go on to say that less than 7 hours of sleep for an adult increase the likelihood of developing dementia, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and even cancers of the breast, colon, ovaries and prostate as well as affect the ability to function while performing daily tasks like driving.
There is something surreal about the time spent awake when everything around you is sleeping but i generally use the time to catch up on work, read, write blog posts or just sit and watch the sun rise especially in Summer when the Sun comes up at around 4.30am and i know it's just me and a handful of other people watching it before driving to work and leaving a trail of accidents on the road behind me obviously.
Saturday, 12 April 2025
Sweet Dreams Are (Not) Made Of This
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scientists... eggs are bad, eggs are good, eggs are bad again, eggs are good again. ditto milk. ditto red wine. ditto fat. what scientists say needs to be scrutinized as much as what journalists, lawyers, and used car sales people say
Damn science, what has it ever done for us?
you tell us.
for the record, humans made many advances before the "scientific method" was codified. and, many inventions that occurred after the "scientific method" was codified were not built with science - for example the printing press was not developed using math/statistics. humans built pyramids without "science". we developed language without "science". we developed mathematics without "science".
but certainly, scientists have done more for us than journalists. used car salesmen have also contributed more than journalists.
…and insurance salesmen?
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