Quotes of the Day

This concept of sleep pressure, our need or desire for sleep, is key to many of our sleep tactics. One of the primary techniques that doctors use to treat patients with insomnia is actually sleep restriction, limiting the hours when they're "allowed" to sleep to six, or less. This basically makes them tired enough that they fall asleep more easily at the end of the day, and (hopefully) their normal sleep cycle is restored. Another way to help cultivate sleep pressure is via exercise, particularly sustained endurance exercise (e.g., zone 2), ideally not within 2 or 3 hours of bedtime. Even better is exercise that entails some exposure to sunlight (i.e., outdoors). [2023] - Peter Attia

If demand puts upward pressure on housing prices without a corresponding increase in average income, this strong increase is likely not sustainable. [2013] - Don R. Campbell

Only two grains-amaranth and quinoa (pronounced "keen-wa")-are complete proteins, providing all sixteen amino acids just like dairy and meat. [2009] - Frances Sheridan Goulart

If you double your mortgage payment, then mathematically speaking, a 30-year mortgage will be reduced to roughly six years. [2015] - Richard Dolan

Tomatoes offer more lycopene for lowering heart disease risk than any other food source. You can also get your daily dose of that tomato antioxidant lycopene from watermelon and red grapefruit. Stick with the reds for lycopene; green and yellow tomatoes are lycopene-poor. Cooked and canned tomato sauce and paste (yes, even ketchup) appear to offer more lycopene than a tomato out of the hand. The protective dose of lycopene is 35 milligrams, which is the amount in 2 cups of tomato juice or cooked tomato products. While cooking increases the lycopene fourfold, eating your tomato raw gives you 40% of what the government considers your RDA for vitamin C. Have your tomatoes both ways. [2009] - Frances Sheridan Goulart