mcb39 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Best we shut it down for the night. A lack of shut-eye may not just leave you feeling groggy—it could seriously injure your brain. A new study of mice has found 25% of brain cells died off after prolonged sleep loss, meant to duplicate night shifts or long hours at the office—the first evidence of its kind and a scary find if it applies to humans. "We now have evidence that sleep loss can lead to irreversible injury," a researcher told the BBC, noting that when the mice lost a little sleep, they were protected by an energizing protein, but brain cells began to die off when sleep loss became a habit. "This suggests to us that we are going to have to look very carefully in humans." If you don't get the recommended six to eight hours of sleep per night but substitute extra hours of snores later to catch up—like on weekends—that may not make up the difference either, researchers say, as the damage may already be done, CNN notes. While more research is needed—the group plans to study the brains of shift workers after death to look for nerve damage—there may also be a silver lining to look forward to: The team notes its research may eventually lead to medicines that help people deal with irregular sleep patterns caused by odd work hours 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 What about naps though? As I get back to work after a couple extra hours snooze....of course this could explain a lot of things about my memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrod Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Eat sunflower seeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I'm glad I'm not a mouse?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolbeck Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I guess I am doomed! That is how I survive Tax Season. That Car's song: "Dance all Night, Play all Day, Go to Work" I live for weekends when I can sleep in on Sunday to get caught up. It just is not as easy as when I was in my teens and twenties. Some nights I fall asleep when I get home from my day job. Thank goodness my husband is so supportive. Here I thought it was just "Blonde" Moments.. I am so doomed! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogTom Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I guess I am doomed! That is how I survive Tax Season. That Car's song: "Dance all Night, Play all Day, Go to Work" I live for weekends when I can sleep in on Sunday to get caught up. It just is not as easy as when I was in my teens and twenties. Some nights I fall asleep when I get home from my day job. Thank goodness my husband is so supportive. Here I thought it was just "Blonde" Moments.. I am so doomed! Love that song. Love that band. Back to the 80's. Tom Hollister, CA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolbeck Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Love the 80's! When Music was Music! And it did not all sound the same. (Though I will bet my teenage daughter's think it does.) (I am officially too old to go to todays music concerts. Avenged 7Fold with youngest 3 years ago was and WILL be my last). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaB Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Love the 80's! When Music was Music! And it did not all sound the same. Yes. And when Back to the Future and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles were the movies. And we all had feathered bangs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulldogTom Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Yes. And when Back to the Future and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles were the movies. And we all had feathered bangs. And when all the girls were wearing Ditto jeans. Loved the way they looked on them cowgirls. Tom Hollister, CA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmars Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Yes. And when Back to the Future and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles were the movies. And we all had feathered bangs. I believe that the date they went to in the future is 10/21/15, hope we have the hover boards by then. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schirallicpa Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 We have recently been invited to a birthday party for a friend turning 50 and we are supposed to dress like the 80's. Good thing I still have that REO Speedwagon t-shirt. Hopefully it won't rip when I stretch it out to fit.......... Looking forward to some feathered hair and grape HubbaBubba 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaB Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I believe that the date they went to in the future is 10/21/15, hope we have the hover boards by then. I told my attorney's secretary I'd like to have a DeLorean DMC-12 and go back 12 years and never meet my ex. She said, "Make it 13 cause I wanna go with you. And Jessica is packed, too." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kea Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 I'm a child of the 80s, too. Loved the "new wave" music & the movies. But I never had feathered bangs or Ditto jeans. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 I was a young adult of the 80's. Worked at Tower Records in NYC, at the time the worlds largest record store.. And I could dance all night and work all day. Now I work all night, work all day. Take a nap in the evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmars Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 I was a young adult of the 80's. Worked at Tower Records in NYC, at the time the worlds largest record store.. And I could dance all night and work all day. Now I work all night, work all day. Take a nap in the evening. WAS that you that helped locate the Vanilla Fudge album? I was the one wearing jeans, and work boots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolbeck Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Yes. And when Back to the Future and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles were the movies. And we all had feathered bangs. And now those Feathered Bangs help cover the wrinkles on the forehead! Me too being a young adult of the 80's (though HS Grad 78 - Loved "That 70's Show). Wish I could still do those 48 hour straight marathons of Tax completions with a 4 hour Nap in between those 48 hours. Brain says no now. My hairdresser (Sister) says she wants to get me out of the 80's... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaB Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 But I never had ... Ditto jeans. Me neither, had to look them up. But I did play basketball, and my kids want to know: "Mom. OMG. Why were shorts so short and socks so long??? OMG." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmars Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Hey you got a hairdresser in the family? why isn't she helping you do taxes, that's where the real experts are. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion EA Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 It's either Botox or bangs. I too have bangs. But, I'm a lot older. My stepdaughter looked at my HS and college yearbooks and wanted to know, "Where are the women's sports teams pictures?" Well, there weren't any way back then. Cheerleading. Maybe synchronized swimming outside school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolbeck Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Me neither, had to look them up. But I did play basketball, and my kids want to know: "Mom. OMG. Why were shorts so short and socks so long??? OMG." I didn't know what the Ditto Jeans were either. I had the Jordache Jean thing... (Maybe that was the 70's Disco thing...). But have you seen the "Daisy Duke" shorts that are the fad now? They make those shorts we wore back then seem kind of long... (Though having you car breakdown while wearing them back then did help). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaB Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Yes, apparently only 80's athletic shorts are too short. Street shorts (and I use that term loosely, IF you know what I mean) can be obscene in 2014. And pajamas in Wal-mart are all the rage now, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 What feathered bangs? I had a semi-Mohawk. Now I have bangs, my hair was thin until I got old (whazzup with that?), and bangs never worked. Of course I remember you Michael. I was the one snickering with the goth girls at reception that you were looking for Vanilla Fudge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmars Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 OUCH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 We were majorly cool back then. Now if you'd have said Bauhaus..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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