I bet you didnt know that

The brain is the only human organ that can recognize it's name, and the placenta is the only fugacious human organ, grown to order and unconnected to the brain.

In 1998, Rhino Records released a great 70s CD box set called Have A Nice Decade.
Some of the tracks include sound clips of the decade, which follow a short silence at the end of the song (but which are still part of the track). There's about 25 in total.

One of them includes a ghastly Jim Jones soundbite telling his followers to "get your medicine" and "don't be afraid to die" with people weeping in the background. Grim.

Over half the population experiences bouts of insomnia with women being more likely to suffer. At any given time around ten percent of the population is dealing with chronic insomnia, and inadequate or non-restorative sleep is indicated in a number of serious conditions including diabetes, hypertension, stroke, depression and even heart disease. Lack of sleep alters how your body metabolizes glucose, and as well as it's role in diabetes it causes premature ageing as the skin loses elasticity and wrinkles form, dark circles under the eyes as pigmentation changes occur, and finally weight gain as your insulin response gets royally confused. Stimulants are a big no, so if you drink coffee, alcohol, or anything that gets you smiling involuntarily, you're more likely to have insomnia.

Then there's sleep apnoea, which shares all the above symptoms and deprives your brain of enough oxygen over time to cause cognitive impairment, fires up the sympathetic nervous system, overloads your left ventricle, causes an inflammatory response over your whole body and apart from a whole other raft of heart issues it increases your risk of a night heart attack by over 90%.

You need seven hours good quality uninterrupted sleep for maximum benefit, and if you're proud of yourself because you can function on six hours, don't be. Even if you feel fine, you need seven hours. Not getting the seven hours even increases your risk of dementia in later life. It's also a big mistake to have lie ins, good sleep hygiene includes getting up within the same hour or so every day. Sleeping too much also knocks years off your life. You can't win.


I didn't sleep much so I've probably left out a lot.