Sleep, America, and Me
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Furthermore, they indicate a certain disdain for slumber as an essential activity and say it needs to be both routine and a priority.
It is said that cardiovascular disease and other maladies of the human body are directly related to a lack of sleep and that the notion of "you can sleep when you're dead" has some of us headed precisely there.
It is further indicated that "make up sleep" as is sometimes a weekend activity simply does not substitute for that regular implementation of sleep as an activity of daily living.
Now me, I'm afraid I don't have any issue with sleeping.
In fact, I likely exist as some deviant exception to the rule and likely I'm in in a state of having too much sleep.
This happens as the result of going to work and arriving home afterwards early ... then scarfing up a goodly nap to awake to a full evening still available.
This was my life for several years at a job I gave up for the abuse of a Persian monster.
I likely will not suffer the weight gain, increased inflammation, as well as behavioral and cognitive problems to include depression, anxiety, as well as impaired memory function. I do indeed suffer the Type 2 diabetes and shook the smoking and substance abuse long ago.
So sleep ... I get a lot of it. It sounds much like I'm the exception to the rule here in the United States.