Originally Posted by
CMW403
anti lock brakes***
I realize sleep is extremely important and a lot of the points he was making were probably true, but with the whole cancer thing, but correlation does not equal causation...
There are way too many variables at play here (age, overall mental/physical health, previous medical histories, current medical histories, medications, etc etc etc, I could list variables for days but there is not point).
Another thing that he needs to take into account is the fact that every single brain in his study achieves and maintains REM sleep faster and slower, longer and shorter than the next brain. Some people only achieve REM sleep for an hour a night when they sleep for 12 hours straight, this would cause false positives/negatives EVERYWHERE in his experiment since all of the healthy things happen during REM sleep. From what I understand about sleep (which is a lot, I have struggled with it all my life), if you aren't achieving REM sleep at some point during your "sleep", you may as well just stay awake.
Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong here but this study has more holes in it than a wheel of swiss cheese after I've put a 300 round drum clip of 7.62x39 through it fifteen times.