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"A drink a day makes your brain fog go away" See data from "The largest human cognitive performance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle fact

• diarrhea 5y ago
  I'm doubtful 7h of sleep a night and 1 drink a day can render a given individual more mentally able. I'd guess the causation is that the cognitively most able people just happened to average on these values. I sleep 8 to 9h a day and only have a couple drinks a month. 7h of sleep would likely mess with me, and I simply can't believe that a drink a day (alcohol, a poison that fogs the mind!) improves anything. Especially for sleep, every individual seems to have their own optimum that's hard to change.
  • avereveard 5y ago
    I cannot sleep above seven hours, is the darnest thing, I just wake up five in the morning if I go to bed at 23 and just cannot get to sleep before 22, and if I oversleep or get the pattern disturbed I feel groggy all next day I think these study searching/advocating for a healthy averages kind of trick people into thinking their patterns are unhealthy, while it seems pretty clear that each person has its own way of functioning, either by environmental or genetic influences, and averaging them might give some insight but not any indication of what's best to each.