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Friday, August 30. 2013

Sleep


Most animals need sleep, but we do not know why.


Sleep patterns in humans are culturally-established. Some cultures have their siesta, for example. Many American males like their weekend naps.


European families, and many American families up until the early 20th Century, often shared beds unless they were prosperous. In the old days, Europeans had two sleeps - a first and a second. Two sleeps with sex or prayer, or both, in between. Both sounds good to me.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 14:02 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Sleep is the only time that the muscles of a normally active person are at complete rest. At all other times they are tense to some degree (albeit a small one when we are not exerting them).

That is when our muscles do most of their healing.
#1 John on 2013-08-31 00:05 (Reply)
Most animals need sleep, but we do not know why

Apparently John (#1) knows why.
#1.1 Sar Cast tick (Link) on 2013-08-31 20:16 (Reply)
"Most animals need sleep, but we do not know why"

Our cells divide while we sleep.

All our cells contain cancer triggers ... oncogenes.

Oncogenes are triggered in response to mutations which occur during cell division.

Sleep is primarily an anti-cancer mechanism.

In my 1992 book Cancer Selection I wrote that evidence of increased immune activity while we sleep would confirm my idea.

Visit Google Scholar and enter sleep + "immune system" to see confirmatory findings.
#2 James Graham (Link) on 2013-09-01 12:09 (Reply)

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