You might think attending the national sleep (APSS) meetings would not provide secrets to winning at sports. No. Recognize the importance of biological intelligence—how your body uses and acquires information—and you might be proven wrong. For survival, sleep is like food. For performance, activity requires rest, a fundamental biological yin-yang. Knowhow to optimize and modify human rest […]
Why Don’t People Sleep?
“Can’t I just treat my insomnia with a book?” My interlocutor was sure there was a book out there (including one of my mine) that “could get me to sleep just fine.” Certainly many could do with a brief bout of Sleep School – understanding how sleep affects their health, performance, pleasure, pain, income and mortality […]
The Sociopath Olympics
The Winners Are… We have the Oscars. There’s the World Cup, the World Series, the Super Bowl. But despite their increasingly important role in our lives, sociopaths lack sufficient recognition. In a competitive world where achievement is readily celebrated, sociopaths need their own public competition. Now is the time for the Madoff Prize. And not just […]
Shoot yourself in the heart, then donate your brain to science? Why are we killing the athletes? (5/10/12)
Pleasures and Pains Sports provide us the most delirious euphorias, the pure delight of seeing the human body to do what it’s built to do. Sports also kill and maim us. Two thousand young Americans die of sudden cardiac arrest every year, with perhaps triple the risk in athletes. When hockey enforcer Derek Boogard died at age 28, […]
To win the game you stay in the game – football and flexibility (12/27/11)
Preventing Injury Football can be a brutal, even lethal sport. But you can’t win games if players get injured. Which happens all the time. The results are obvious in high school and college teams – “take out” a key opposing player through injuries and you have a much easier time winning. Yet NFL players know […]
