FItness death
#1
Posted 05 September 2007 - 12:23 PM
#2
Posted 05 September 2007 - 12:42 PM
#3
Posted 05 September 2007 - 04:35 PM
The future is 90% present and 10% vision.
#4
Posted 05 September 2007 - 05:10 PM
#5
Posted 05 September 2007 - 10:08 PM
Edited by Rogerdodger, 05 September 2007 - 10:14 PM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#6
Posted 05 September 2007 - 10:58 PM
Dog-tired doctors pose a health risk
Although most people are aware of their impaired function after going without one or two nights of sleep, the most common form of "sleep loss" is shortening of sleep hours. Everyone encounters some nights of reduced sleep length but when this persists and there is no or little recovery sleep, problems occur. Recent research has highlighted that shortening sleep to four or even six hours per night over a two-week period is associated with increased lapses in attention due to "microsleeps". More worrying is that individuals who have restricted sleep seem to have an inability to monitor their own deterioration in performance, resulting in overconfidence in their ability to undertake tasks. So a sleep-restricted person may behave in the same way as a person who has had too much alcohol to drink, both underestimating their impairment and thinking they are fit to drive a car or some other responsible task, like complicated medical surgery.
Indeed, the hospital workplace is one setting where the risk of sleep loss has increasingly attracted attention from medical researchers. Professor Charles Czeisler and his team from Harvard University have recently published a series of landmark papers in The New England Journal of Medicine and other leading medical journals. These papers have provided direct evidence that working extended shifts in the hospital intensive care unit results in more errors, especially medication orders. Shorter split shifts with time allowed for napping resulted in fewer errors. In a nationwide US survey of 2737 interns, the Harvard group found extended shifts were linked to a greater rate of needlestick injuries and near-miss or actual driving accidents.
How does this relate to the hospital workplace in Australia? Although, in general, work-hour regimes are kinder here than in US hospitals, 15 per cent of all doctors in Australia report working more than 80 hours per week.
http://www.smh.com.a...8066939918.html
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#7
Posted 05 September 2007 - 11:03 PM
#8
Posted 06 September 2007 - 09:07 AM
What is your point?
Some doctors don't get enough sleep?
Do any other people get enough sleep? Do doctors who get 8 hours of sleep make better diagnoses than doctors who sleep for 7 hours a sleep?
What are you trying to say? And how does that relate to this poor child?
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Sleep is devalued. It is not emphasied as a health priority as it should be.
Why take an energy drink? Why not just get adequate sleep?
Some people deprive themselves of sleep so that can exercise. That is self-defeating.
I was impressed when my doc asked me if I was getting adequate sleep.
I'm sure you're aware that inadequate sleep impairs cognitive performance.
Also sure you're aware that sleep disturbance is a hallmark symptom of depression and
that 1/2-2/3 of suicides are depression related.
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UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#9
Posted 06 September 2007 - 05:11 PM
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#10
Posted 06 September 2007 - 07:18 PM
Coincidently, I have run across so similar warning signs in a couple of friends in the last 2 weeks.
I have be trying a suppliment called Acetyl-L-carnitine, mainly for possible exercise
recovery properties. But it being widely tested and used as a 'mood enhancer' -
http://www.raysaheli...lcarnitine.html
I then found out a good friend of our who is bipolar and off his meds due to kidney problems, takes red bull and other 'energy drinks' to help mood, because they contain amongst other things L-Canitine, usually about 250mg...I was sort of shocked to hear it was in regular drinks.
Not a big sample, but the 3 of us took for last last 2 weeks, about 500mg. My wife anecdotally feels great with it, she has a family history of bipolar. However, I who have never ever had any form of depression, can honestly say I felt out of my head. I had to reduce to 100mg to feel myself. Then much to our surprize, our other friend called to say she'd had panic attack and felt 'out of her head' since taking it.
I think its definitely worrying. If people are drinking alot of this stuff like red bull, and if they drink alot of it..throwing in alot of stimulants like caffeine... some sleep deprivation & stress...well, its a recipe for trouble.
Mark.
Edited by entropy, 06 September 2007 - 07:20 PM.