And no, it's not coke:



http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/n...eep_deprivation

 

So far nothing can replace sleep, and humans die if they are sleep deprived, but that looks like a great way to stay awake all day.

 

i read this and it looks interesting. i wonder, though, if this would have the same negative affects on the brain/body that other illegal drugs (cocaine, heroin, meth, crack) "fill in" for. which would in turn make you addicted and then tougher to get off of?

 

It very well could be that the body would self-regulate and stop producing the chemical on its own so that there isn't too much of it in the system. If that's the case, if you stopped taking it externally you could have serious issues because you wouldn't be getting any of it AT ALL.

Also, while this brain hormone might address congnitive functions, my understanding is that we don't have much understanding of sleep on the rest of the body. So while you're performing mentally without issues, you might be doing some damage to the rest of your body.

 

so if you sniff that you're gonna start throwing your own sh#t at kids at the zoo?

i mean, monkeys... i like to see some human testing. why can't they just get some death role inmates for testings? They're gonna die anyway, mine as well be useful to the society before they die.

If this works, I could see this as military application before it becomes to general public.


here is another interesting thing:

Food intake

Orexin increases the craving for food, and correlates with the function of the substances that promote its production.

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells and acts as a long-term internal measure of energy state. Ghrelin is a short-term factor secreted by the stomach just before an expected meal, and strongly promotes food intake.

Hypocretin-producing cells have recently been shown to be inhibited by leptin (by leptin receptors), but are activated by ghrelin and hypoglycemia (glucose inhibits orexin production). Orexin/hypocretin, as of 2007, is claimed to be a very important link between metabolism and sleep regulation. Such a relationship has been long suspected, based on the observation that long-term sleep deprivation in rodents dramatically increases food intake and energy metabolism, i.e., catabolism, with lethal consequences on a long-term basis.

 

^ i know plenty of people that are not inmates taht are willign to try this.

see erowid for reported experiences of non scheduled "experimental" drugs.

 

I need to get into a study for that at UCLA. I have this tiredness they talk about and have had it all my life.

 

i like to sleep. i dunno know about you guys.

 

love sleeping dont wake me up unless you are my gf, naked and horny.