Journal

For about 10 years now I’ve slept several hours followed by several hours awake followed by another several hours of sleep before rising.  It turns out that all mammals except humans consider this normal. “In healthy people this bimodal pattern of sleep would be called a sleep disorder, although the resemblance to animal sleep confirms its naturalness. And as people get older they revert to this pattern of divided sleep. Perhaps it gets harder to override it.”

An ongoing area of interest for me is neuroscience. Some time ago I read that some neuroscientists drink coffee simply for health benefits – to ward off dementia. The scientific evidence is stacking up, and now a recent study shows that coffee may actually reverse Alzheimer’s. Black tea also has been shown to have significant cognitive health benefits. Oddly, in the black tea studies I have read, “coffee has not been shown to have the same benefits.” Likewise, in the coffee studies, black tea is not as effective.