Keep Them In Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen, move over – Florida reality again trumps both fantasy and novelistic legerdemain. Perhaps it’s the effect of earthquakes and oil spills (our one year anniversary of the BP disaster) but strangeness pervades the state. Some weeks ago five teenagers in Silver Springs Shore snorted the remains of […]
Dying to win – Internet gaming and sleeplessness (3/1/11)
An Unnecessary Death In 1967, Tom Simpson died on the 13th stage of the Tour de France. The superb British cyclist had won considerable fame in his short life, and was expected to join the greats of the sport. The autopsy showed small amounts of amphetamine and metamphetamine, a combination that killed him climbing stony […]
Getting undepressed – by yourself (2/23/11)
Getting Undepressed Without Drugs I treat many, many sleepy people. Many of them, especially those with sleep apnea, chronic pain, and fibromyalgia, are or have been clinically depressed. Lots of them have seen their GPs and been placed on antidepressants without success. They’re already on a laundry list of medications, and in hard economic times […]
Can you really get beauty sleep? (Looking good for the holidays -12/22/10)
Looking Good for the Holidays The holidays are here – can you get real beauty sleep? According to the Karolinska Institute, yes. They now have the first “scientific” proof beauty sleep exists. Men and women were photographed at the same angle in the same pose on awakening, then after staying up 31 hours. Shown to […]
The Four Hour Body – How Not to Become Superhuman (12/16/10)
Becoming Superhuman It’s a publishing phenomenon. The video lasts a minute but shows you can do the impossible – run 100 miles, lose 100 pounds, lift 500. The book promises a a 95% sure way to 15 minute orgasm; rapid weight loss without exercise; “very awesome” sleep in just 2 hours a day; superhuman physical […]