I was trained as a neuroscientist, took me over a decade to realize two important, basic, biological facts I wasn't taught:<p>1) Stress is always on - always. It's the survival instinct that can be reduced but not turned off.<p>2) Sleep is quite simply the recovery from stress. Without proper sleep, we don't recover.<p>Now as we develop technologies for stress management, I'm still amazed that #1 and #2 are not as commonly understood - and talked about - as the need for good nutrition and hydration. The body was designed to stress and sleep. We ignore those primal drives to our short- and long-term peril.
tl;dr: "We tortured some rats, and they reacted as though they'd been tortured. When we stopped torturing them, they got better."<p>Don't mistake me for someone who has a problem with animal research in its own right, but I'm having a hard time seeing the novelty here.
>It’s still August. Time to relax, rewind and remodel the brain.<p>Who the hell is the entity that is doing the remodeling. What a bunch of garbage.