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Why Sleep Deprivation Kills
Quanta Magazine ^ | 6/4/2020 | Veronique Greenwood

Posted on 06/06/2020 12:29:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

My exact question, too.

Wouldn’t it be great if a vitamin cocktail would help you get over the after-effects of an all-nighter, or a short-night’s sleep?


21 posted on 06/06/2020 5:31:55 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: LibWhacker

When you’re tired the whole world looks tired.


22 posted on 06/06/2020 5:33:52 AM PDT by lurk
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To: A Navy Vet; LibWhacker

“Another study and more blah, blah, blah. As if humans never knew they need sleep to revitalize. Sheesh.”

You ain’t kidding! What a word diarrhea!

Get to the damn point! They use 10000 words for what could be said in 100. Everything has to be dramatized.


23 posted on 06/06/2020 5:43:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“Sounds like a line from a novel.”

The stupid article is the length of a novel.

And what’s the bottom line? They still don’t know anything.


24 posted on 06/06/2020 5:48:48 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: aquila48

And what’s the bottom line? They still don’t know anything.


Actually that is refreshing to read. If only we saw it more often.

But as you revealed, we want answers not questions. And politician are too eager to give us answers.


25 posted on 06/06/2020 5:58:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: aquila48

And what’s the bottom line? They still don’t know anything.


Actually, we want simple answers. Just tell me the cocktail to take to address the problem.

Folks, we complain about libs (at least I do), taking just one or two factors of an AMAZING AND COMPLEX system and thinking it can be controlled

And then we have systems interacting with systems and those with more systems. But the problems with systems is that it leads to an answer we don’t want to hear.

It leads to knowing we are not in control and there is a.....................


26 posted on 06/06/2020 6:06:42 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Actually, we want simple answers. Just tell me the cocktail to take to address the problem.”

No, we don’t want to be suckered into reading a ten thousand word article with no payoff.

Look at the title “Why sleep deprivation kills”.

You’d expect to get some sort of answer, no?

Instead it reads like a high school English creative writing term paper that at the end tells you nothing about the subject matter. What’s the answer to the title question? We don’t know.


27 posted on 06/06/2020 6:16:02 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: aquila48

Look at the title “Why sleep deprivation kills”.
You’d expect to get some sort of answer, no?


You absolutely do not get it do you and illustrate my point.

As I illustrated. YOU want simple answers to VERY COMPLEX SYSTEMS.

If you read it slowly, let you lips move, there was some good information given.

Most people are sheep, they want to be told what to do, whether libs or conservatives.


28 posted on 06/06/2020 6:21:56 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“If you read it slowly, let you lips move, there was some good information given.”

Since you read it slowly and you let your lips move please enlighten me with one paragraph (two if you must) as to the mechanism used during sleep deprivation that causes death.

“Most people are sheep, they want to be told what to do, whether libs or conservatives.”

I have no idea what that has to do with the article and whether it answers the question that it poses.


29 posted on 06/06/2020 7:15:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
If you read it slowly, let you lips move, there was some good information given.

Leave Sean Hannity out of this, OK? :-D

30 posted on 06/06/2020 8:45:44 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Take a gram of ascorbic acid and a dose of Thiamine conjuvent, then see if that helped by next morning.


31 posted on 06/06/2020 12:10:49 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: aquila48

“Most people are sheep, they want to be told what to do, whether libs or conservatives.”
I have no idea what that has to do with the article and whether it answers the question that it poses.


My goodness, you do lack reading and thinking skills.

IT has nothing to do with the article but your response.

You and others don’t want to think. You want to be told WHAT to think. That is the definition of sheep.


32 posted on 06/06/2020 6:09:53 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“That is the definition of sheep.”

You on the other hand are the definition of a moron, incapable of giving a brief summary of that idiotic article that was supposed to tell us how sleep deprivation kills. The reason you weren’t able to do that is simple, it ain’t there!

You seem to be easily impressed by vacuous writing, I’m not.


33 posted on 06/06/2020 6:51:49 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: LibWhacker

melatonin pills are great in getting you to sleep.
You just drift off to sleep.They helped me years ago when I was having fitful sleep.
No side effects after you stop taking them either.
https://www.amazon.com/melatonin/s?k=melatonin
I do not take them anymore and I now drop off to sleep right away.

Friday to saturday I slept about 10 hours then later in the late afternoon slept for 4 hours....

Must be the soda I am drinking.


34 posted on 06/07/2020 12:17:52 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Yaelle

“A small study of humans who lost sleep showed that the makeup of their gut microbiomes, the bacteria that live in the intestines, shifted after insufficient sleep, an intriguing if preliminary finding drawing another link between sleep and the gut.”


35 posted on 06/07/2020 3:09:31 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Pelham

Wow, interesting. I didn’t know that but not surprised. Thanks.


36 posted on 06/07/2020 11:56:22 PM PDT by Yaelle
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