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Sleep is essential for brain functionality and overall health but understanding how sleep delivers its beneficial effects remains largely unknown. Sleep researchers are exploring new and unbiased approaches that can take sleep to a systems level. In one such approach, referred to as 'systems genetics', inferences about biological phenomena can be made by linking together several levels of information from DNA to phenotype via gene expression, proteins and metabolism at the level of a population. Systems genetics offers a global and interconnected view of biological phenomena and is therefore considered critical towards predicting disease susceptibility.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180809141231.htm
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @01:22PM (3 children)
The bodily systems which require the mineral Calcium, can only perform their major biological duties while you sleep.
During waking hours, the major biological requirements switch to Iron and B Vitamins.
The Calcium cycle and The Iron cycle are antagonistic, therefore one is suppressed to minor biological duties while the other is in its major operational mode.
Therefore, sleep is a necessary part of the human biological loop.
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Gravity and the Iron cycle have a symbiotic relationship. Therefore for optimum health, a human should be performing gravity-fighting activity every day, ie: walking, running, lifting weights, etc.
Conversely, the Iron cycle can be trained (or tricked) to degenerate to negative levels by avoiding gravity-fighting activity, ie: office workers and others whose job is to sit or lie down all day. Interestingly, degenerated Iron levels can also come about with elite athletes whose sport is not fully weight bearing, ie: cyclists and swimmers.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @06:09PM (1 child)
I honestly can't decide whether this is pure bio-babble snakeoil or actual science.
I would be really interested in the latter, can you point me to some studies? (... the kind that gets published on arxiv.org or some similar place ...)
(Score: 2) by EventH0rizon on Sunday August 12 2018, @10:57PM
I also found those comments interesting.
I do know that the Vitamin B/Iron mechanism has some interesting support: Folate and vitamin B12 supplementation reduces disabling schizophrenia symptoms [massgeneral.org] and Folate, vitamin B12 help schizophrenia symptoms [nurse.com], but I've never heard of the Gravity angle.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday August 12 2018, @06:25PM
So true. And without enough Iron, Restless Leg. Big league. Custom supplements all the way!!!