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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #145
pjerem wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in the same boat as you and it seems I solved it. What I did : - LSD (microdosing + a semi dose one year ago) did absolute wonders on my anxiety (which was what kept me energetic). I would then describe myself as having a general anxiety disorder and I now describe myself as chill af . It's amazing. I'm still stressed out by things but that's normal and not my default mode anymore. - Prolonged-release melatonin…

okay, I'm curious, have you build an addiction? or do you think you can keep on reducing the dose and stop using it but still have the benefits. I've read somewhere that LSD can kind of re-wire your brain

LSD has risks, especially if you're already prone to certain kinds of mental illness (you might not know it), but addiction isn't really one of them.

Going for a walk can also rewire your brain, but doing so on LSD will probably rewire it more quickly. Whether that's good or bad depends on whether you do a good job with the rewiring. It comes down to how well you trust yourself.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by NichoPaolucci »

dalben wrote: post #124
Bjartr wrote: post #39

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Racing stripes would be a better example. Though negligible, a hand out the window does have a causal impact on speed. On the other hand racing stripes have zero impact, but do correlate to the speed of the car.

We could pick a company car in my previous company (it's a tax thing). We could pick any color, apart from red, because the insurance forbade it - red cars get into more accidents. Somehow that must have made it all the way to the policy without someone asking "is it the red car or the kind of person that picks a red car that causes more accidents?"

I drive a "Victory Red" 2005 Chevy Silverado. I always thought it was a "safer" color for a vehicle.

I have always assumed that, being in a larger vehicle that is bright red, people would be more likely to spot the vehicle from further away, notice it out of the corner of their eye, or that I would generally be MORE visible to other drivers.

I'm sure the correlation insurance companies are looking at is that the driver's of red vehicles are the cause of the higher accident rate.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by LPisGood »

nialv7 wrote: post #175
petilon wrote: post #82

Magnesium supplementation solved my sleep issues. I have seen many doctors, including sleep specialists, regarding insomnia. They all pointed to one source as the reason for the sleep issues: stress. And they all wanted to put me on prescription sleeping pills. I said no to that. Sleeping pills can cause dependence, and they often treat the symptom rather than the underlying cause. As a software developer, I am used…

Holy Dunning–Kruger effect... As a software developer, I am a much better doctor than actual trained doctors, and am definitely immune to any placebo effects.

I don’t know anything about the specifics of this case. I do know there are lots of bad doctors. Doctors routinely make mistakes or overlook things, especially relatively trivial things like this.

I don’t know what people think you learn in medical school that makes you an infallible source of health knowledge.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by stouset »

m_mueller wrote: post #122
petilon wrote: post #103

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Blood tests are pretty useless for magnesium. The deficiency is in cells, magnesium level in blood is not a good test for that deficiency.

wouldn't a cell deficiency lead to it depleting also the magnesium levels in the blood, simply based on osmosis?

If blood concentrations drop, you die.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by AbstractH24 »

I have epilpsy, with an implanted device that both acts like a pacemaker and records my brainwaves.

Basically my doctor's biggest concern right now is making sure I don't die in my sleep because of something the device records that I and my wife never even know happened. Its a point of debate right now how much to disrupt my life with side-effects to do that.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by stronglikedan »

cobbaut wrote: post #101
sajithdilshan wrote: post #89

My problem is that I'm always sleepy throughout the day and when I have to go to bed at nigh, then I feel so active and energetic, as if my body tries its best to avoid sleeping.

My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until: - two pieces of fruit per day - two portions of vegetables per day - half an hour of outside sunshine per day - twice per week exercise until you sweat - no sleep during the day - get out of bed every morning around the same time - no processed food!

I wish your doctor's advice worked on me. I'm in the same boat as the person you're responding to, and I follow all this advice as well.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by deepsun »

petilon wrote: post #82

Magnesium supplementation solved my sleep issues. I have seen many doctors, including sleep specialists, regarding insomnia. They all pointed to one source as the reason for the sleep issues: stress. And they all wanted to put me on prescription sleeping pills. I said no to that. Sleeping pills can cause dependence, and they often treat the symptom rather than the underlying cause. As a software developer, I am used…

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Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by fsckboy »

deepvibrations wrote: post #144
bigmadshoe wrote: post #104

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The problem with that take is that the evidence for melatonin is quite poor outside of jet-lag and certain more serious sleep disorders, and there can be unexpected effects elsewhere in the body when supplementing hormones, e.g. increased rates of depression for melatonin in particular.

This. And maybe anecdotal, but my experience of people who have used melatonin is that they sleep very deeply, but for a shorter amount of time. But likely they will wake up after around 6/7 hours sleep, rather than the recommended 8 hours of sleep. And once woken up, it's very hard to go back to sleep.

>rather than the recommended 8 hours of sleep

for people getting 7 hours of sleep you're good. Improve your sleep hygiene, ok, but artificial interventions to get 8 may not be worth it for you.

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by thesuitonym »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #171
small_model wrote: post #152

I do bi/tri phase sleep, 6 hours at night, and 1-2 naps a day (I work remotely so allows me to nap when I want) This is the best, sleep when you need to you body knows best. Do you think our ancestors slept exactly 8 hours a night from 10pm to 6am? No they slept when they wanted.

> Do you think our ancestors slept exactly 8 hours a night from 10pm to 6am? Yeah I pretty much do expect that (but more like 6 or 7). They were awake a few hours after sunset by fire light, then get up fairly early. I certainly don't imagine them napping during the day, when they could be working together to get food, unless it's a climate where it's too hot to do anything in the middle of the day. Studies of modern…

Nearly all predators spend large portions of their day sleeping, why would humans have been different?

Re: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

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Post by sadsach »

nialv7 wrote: post #175
petilon wrote: post #82

Magnesium supplementation solved my sleep issues. I have seen many doctors, including sleep specialists, regarding insomnia. They all pointed to one source as the reason for the sleep issues: stress. And they all wanted to put me on prescription sleeping pills. I said no to that. Sleeping pills can cause dependence, and they often treat the symptom rather than the underlying cause. As a software developer, I am used…

Holy Dunning–Kruger effect... As a software developer, I am a much better doctor than actual trained doctors, and am definitely immune to any placebo effects.

Trained doctors pushed opiates and benzos on me when they were very much not needed and in both cases led to dependancies and horrific withdrawals. I'm sure many others can chime in with their own similar experiences. Medical professionals are incredibly crucial to the wellbeing of society, but they have also been responsible for much suffering because they are human just like us.
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