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It's irritating how these articles always position stuff as if us insomniacs have a choice. I'd chew my own arm off to get a solid 8 hours a night but it just doesn't happen.
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I think Elon Musk looks his age, and looks pretty ok for a 49 year old. Granted he has money, and he's had hair transplants, but I've seen many late 40s early 50s people in much worse shape.
Elon looked 50 when he was 30. It's definitely the money.
Many forms of dementia destroy dopaminergic neurons, and this process begins much earlier than symptoms of dementia itself manifest. From what I’ve gathered from reading studies across the years, less dopaminergic capacity seems to be associated with less restful sleep. The conclusions of this study seem to have it backwards. It’s not lack of sleep that causes dementia, it’s early dementia that causes insomnia. Edit:…
Coffee causing dementia is a pretty shocking claim that I haven't heard previously. Do you have more reading on this?
In addition, persistent short sleep duration between the ages of 50, 60 and 70 was also associated with a "30% increased dementia risk," independent of "sociodemographic, behavioural, cardiometabolic, and mental health factors," including depression, the study said.
It's irritating how these articles always position stuff as if us insomniacs have a choice. I'd chew my own arm off to get a solid 8 hours a night but it just doesn't happen.
I am still terrible at sleeping, but a small dose of melatonin and moving my phone away from my bed has helped me a bit. Does melatonin help you any?
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People with amphetamine habits typically look very skinny and unhealthy because amphetamines suppress appetite. Same for cocaine, ritalin and all other dopaminergic stimulants. They can also have facial scabs because of obsessive picking/scratching, and tend to be very twitchy and hyper. He doesn't come off that way at all during interviews. My personal experience leads me to believe that there is no way Elon Musk co…
>My personal experience leads me to believe that there is no way Elon Musk could have been dosing stimulants for the last 10-20 years and look as good and as relatively calm as he does. Looks can be deceiving :P Years ago Elon was balding hard and now he has a full head of hair.