Quotes of the Day

Never speak at a faster rate than the other person. A person's speed of speech shows the rate at which their brain can consciously analyze information. Speak at the same rate or slightly slower than the other person and mirror their inflection and intonation. [2004] - Allan Pease

The smartphone app Rejoyn, by Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, for people with at least moderate depression, was the first to be FDA cleared for mental health, even though it didn't fulfill the clinical trail's primary endpoint. There is no shortage of non-FDA-cleared dCBT apps on the market, including Sanvello, MindDoc, Happify, Evolve, CBT-i Coach, Mindshift CBT, MoodMission, and many others, most of which charge, with a range from $5 to $50 per month. Many of these are indexed at mindapps.org. [2025] - Eric Topol

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

During the induction reflux diet, no eating is allowed within four hours of bed. It actually takes four hours for the stomach to empty completely. After the induction, the time between eating and recumbency (lying down) can be three hours. [2014] - Jamie Koufman

The severity of the slump will depend on the primary factors underpinning it, which typically fall into the following two categories: 1. Overbuilding - due to too much construction. 2. Overpricing - where real estate becomes unaffordable for too many people. Slumps typically initiated by overbuilding are less severe than slumps initiated by overpricing. Slumps led by both overbuilding and overpricing are particularly severe. As a slump phase begins, real estate affordability is adversely affected by tightening credit and prices rising to unrealistic levels. Ironically real estate values continue to increase initially, albeit more slowly than in the preceding boom. Here, rents decrease and vacancy rates increase, clearly at odds with values that continue to rise. [2011] - Don R. Campbell