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Top 5 Fascinating Facts about Sleep


we are such stuff as dreams are made on
and our little life is rounded with a
sleep which I think means me so sleepy
welcome to watchmojo.com intrude hmm
sweet sex Oh number 5 light behind your
knees cures jetlag somehow and II got
back from London two days ago and he
still has jet lag it’s really annoying
we’re on totally different schedules
last night he mowed the lawn at 2:00 in
the morning Andy the journal science
published a study that showed light
applied directly to the skin behind the
knees could advance or delay the body’s
internal clock by up to 3 hours enough
to overcome jet lag it’s already been
proven that light through our eyes can
affect brain function but in this study
the participants couldn’t actually see
the light behind their knees you’ve got
to spray me with the hose inside the
house yeah I don’t want you to do it now
ok in the 17 plus years since these
experiments took place no-one has
disproved their findings but science is
still stumped as to how this effect
works doctors theorize that some kind of
cells are possibly hemoglobin molecules
are light-sensitive and help regulate
our internal clock hamsters who were
given a shot of viagra adjusted to a new
time zone twenty to fifty percent faster
than a control group number four turkey
doesn’t make you sleepy yes it does
because tryptophan says every wiseass
uncle at Thanksgiving dinner after all
things
it’s the truth
sure the amino acid tryptophan is
involved in the chemical process of
sleep and there is tryptophan and Turkey
at all needs but there’s not enough to
make you fall asleep on its own then how
come I get so sleepy after big-ass
turkey dinner asks every smartass
YouTube commenter no mystery there
because you just ate a day’s worth of
calories in one sitting I already knew
number four says every other smartass
YouTube commenter well I can’t please
everyone people here try to get this out
of your head
oh gee
number three sleeping poorly is as bad
for you as smoking the World Health
Organization recently presented research
that suggested that men who generally
sleep poorly
are twice as likely to have a heart
attack and up to four times more likely
to have a stroke yes why do you talk
that way I had it’s true the author’s
recommended adding poor sleep to the
commonly cited list of heart disease
factors smoking lack of exercise and
poor diet if something is keeping you
awake at night you’re probably better
off getting therapy than using sleeping
pills research proves that cognitive
behavioral therapy is a much more
effective sleep aid than pharmaceuticals
how often do you sleep together do you
have sex often hardly ever maybe three
times a week constantly I’d say three
times a week number two
springing ahead causes accidents and
heart attacks why it’s time to Tina
Turner the clocks ahead happy daylight
savings don’t you just love losing an
hour of sleep every march from Sweden to
Croatia to the US researchers have
noticed a spike in heart attacks in the
days following the springtime daylight
saving shift anywhere from 10 percent to
a hundred percent according to data on
injuries reported to the Mine Safety and
Health Administration from 1983 to 2006
workers are 3.6 times as likely to be
injured on the job on the Monday after
the switch then on other days I think
I’m getting the Black Lung Bob various
studies have confirmed that the number
of car accidents and pedestrian
fatalities also jumps following that
night of diabolic sleep theft popular
shoes
it makes you want to give daylight
savings time what it’s got coming to it
number one we don’t actually know if
humans can die from sleeplessness can’t
be easier to keep working after three
days of no sleep the 80s were a wondrous
time neon mullets scientists keeping
Rats awake til they died in the 1980s
scientists at the University of Chicago
kept a group of rats awake until they
died which took about two weeks but
there’s no consensus on what
specifically killed them or on how
humans would do in those same
experiments teenager Randy Gardner
wanted to prove that staying awake a
long time wouldn’t hurt him so in 1964
he set a world record by staying awake
for 11 days and 24 minutes how long did
you sleep the minute you were through
with the 11 days and nights Oh 14 hours
and 43 minutes though he was paranoid
and hallucinating by the end of it he
was fine after he put some lights behind
his knees what do you think can people
awake themselves to death what’s the
longest you’ve ever been awake I give up
I I can’t do this for 72 hours it’s only
been like I said a little bit over 48
hours it just literally my entire body
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