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What to do when medical care goes away (8/8/11)

August 8, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

The Real Deficit   Feeling a bit blue? Less than excited by a Federal budget “deal” that postpones real negotiations for the mere $14 trillion dollar deficit while markets tumble? Sorry, but that’s not the real problem.  The debt hole is much bigger. You get different answers from different places, but the statistics should boggle […]

Sleep is all about learning (especially when it’s about sex) (8/5/11)

August 5, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Is This Why We Sleep? Why do we sleep? Evolution works is a fussy, erratic, back and forth way, taking information systems from one type of project and then applying it to another – and another. As animals moved from sea to land, fins become hands; when they returned to the sea, the hands began […]

Please don’t wake up – interrupted sleep harms memory (8/01/11)

August 1, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Arousals You Can Live Without Some technologies are astonishing. Imagine this – you want to wake up an animal so quickly and efficiently that you do not change overall sleep – just cause brief arousals that don’t shift the amount of  REM, deep sleep, or how long you get to rest.  And you do it […]

Relaxation Drinks – cause for anxiety? (7/29/11)

July 29, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Immediate and Ultimate Relaxation? Any idea what’s in that can you’re drinking? In a wired up nation worried about multiple wars, fiscal collapse, disappearing jobs, hurricanes and floods, global climate change and the Casey Anthony trial results, it’s no surprise that people want to relax.  Into that “perceived need” have jumped “relaxation drinks,” presently numbering […]

Snore no more! (7/27/11)

July 27, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

  Are You Snoring?  Guess Who’s Watching! Snoring is not normal.  It’s associated with increased heart attack and stroke risk.  Prolonged snoring eventually leads to sleep apnea, stopped breathing episodes that increasingly risk survival. And snoring is often loud.  It wakes up other people – particularly spouses, where it sometimes becomes grounds for divorce. It […]

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