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<\/a><\/p>\nPicking the bottom in gold is far more difficult. I bought a little. But I’ll dump it if it turns down, again. I figure a 3% stop loss on SGOL. I’m up 4.2%.<\/p>\n
Sleep works. Napping works. <\/strong>From a big weekend piece in the New York Times:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n … There is a difference between the kind of fleeting sleep loss we sometimes experience and the chronic deprivation that comes from shift work, insomnia and the like. In one set of studies, soon to be published in The Journal of Neuroscience, the Veasey lab found that while our brains can recover quite readily from short-term sleep loss, chronic prolonged wakefulness and sleep disruption stresses the brain\u2019s metabolism. The result is the degeneration of key neurons involved in alertness and proper cortical function and a buildup of proteins associated with aging and neural degeneration.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like the difference between a snowstorm\u2019s disrupting a single day of trash pickup and a prolonged strike. No longer quite as easy to fix, and even when the strike is over, there\u2019s likely to be some stray debris floating around for quite some time yet. \u201cRecovery from sleep loss is slower than we\u2019d thought,\u201d Dr. Veasey notes. \u201cWe used to think that after a bit of recovery sleep, you should be fine. But this work shows you\u2019re not.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n If you put her own research together with the findings from the Nedergaard lab, Dr. Veasey says, it \u201cvery clearly shows that there\u2019s impaired clearance in the awake brain. We\u2019re really starting to realize that when we skip sleep, we may be doing irreparable damage to the brain, prematurely aging it or setting it up for heightened vulnerability to other insults.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n In a society that is not only chronically sleep-deprived but also rapidly aging, that\u2019s bad news. \u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that poor sleep as a child would actually cause Alzheimer\u2019s or Parkinson\u2019s,\u201d says Dr. Veasey, \u201cbut it\u2019s more likely that you may shift one of those diseases by a decade or so. That has profound health and economic implications.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0For the full piece, click here.<\/strong> <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n This week’s New Yorker cover:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n