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[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

What Happens to Your Brain If You Sleep Only 5 Hours a Night?

Many people proudly say: "I sleep just 5 hours and function perfectly." However, scientific evidence does not support this.

Read this post to learn about the adverse effects of sleep deprivation and tips to get good sleep. Bookmark this for future reference and share for wider reach.

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Sleep is not "downtime."
While you sleep, your brain is incredibly busy:
🧠 Consolidating memories
🧠 Removing metabolic waste
🧠 Repairing nerve cells
🧠 Regulating emotions
🧠 Resetting hormones

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

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Here is the scary part:
After several nights of sleeping only 5–6 hours, your brain starts adapting to feeling tired.

🔸You think you are functioning normally. Objective testing shows you are not.
🔸This "sleep debt blindness" is one reason sleep deprivation is so dangerous.

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I’ll explain with an example on how it can and can influence your choice.

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AIIMS Guwahati allows AC.
AIIMS Nagpur doesn’t.

Decent patient load in both.
AIIMS tag in both.
You’re from WB/NE/Orissa.
Not getting AIIMS BBSR or 2nd gen AIIMS.

Choose AIIMS Guwahati.
You really really won’t regret it.

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A step-by-step look at how photosynthesis works

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This message needs to go to every person in India.
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This 1500 cc factor is a headache for all other petrol cars which are max 1200 cc

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[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

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Who should be cautious?
▶️Coffee is generally safe, but extra caution is needed in the following situations:
• People with panic disorder or severe anxiety
• Those with uncontrolled hypertension
• Individuals prone to palpitations or certain arrhythmias
• People with severe insomnia
• Pregnant women (Pregnant women are generally advised to limit caffeine to ≤200 mg/day).

[Avantika rishishwer @ki_radhe65022]

Deep asleep and completely still…

until Lakdi Ki Kathi starts playing

Then suddenly, it's showtime! 😄

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Evolution of Indonesia

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

One house rule turned a normal 8 year old into a kid reading at a sixth grade level, about three grades ahead of where he should be. The rule: you can stay up as late as you want, as long as you're reading a book. He thinks he's getting away with something. He's actually doing the one thing that separates strong readers from struggling ones.

A child who reads for about 20 minutes a day takes in roughly 1.8 million words in a year. A child who reads less than a minute a day takes in 8,000. Same school, same teacher, more than 200 times as many words, sentences, and ideas. A 1988 study in Reading Research Quarterly followed 155 fifth graders and found that out of everything they did after school, time spent reading books was the clearest sign of how much their reading would improve.

And the head start sticks. The Annie E. Casey Foundation tracked nearly 4,000 kids and found that the ones not reading at grade level by the end of third grade were four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma. Third grade is the turning point. That's when school stops teaching kids to read and starts expecting them to read to learn everything else.

Reading for fun does something even parents can't outwork. A British study that followed 6,000 children found that how much they read for pleasure was more closely tied to their progress in vocabulary and math by age 16 than how educated their own parents were.

The rule works because the kid is the one choosing. When a child picks the book and reads because he wants to, his motivation goes up and stays up. Roughly 9 in 10 kids say their favorite books are the ones they chose themselves. This parent turned reading into the thing you get away with after dark, the opposite of a chore. The kid feels like a tiny outlaw. He's quietly building a bigger vocabulary and a reading habit, both getting stronger every year.

He thinks he won because he's still awake. The research says his parent won bigger. Win/win, confirmed.

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

Evidence-Based Facts about SLEEP Everyone Should Know
Misconceptions about sleep are common. In this thread, I discuss evidence-based facts about sleep. Bookmark for future reference and repost for wider reach.

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How much sleep do adults need?
✅Most adults need 7–9 hours of sleep per night.
🔸Some function well with slightly less or more, but regularly sleeping <6 hours or >9–10 hours is associated with adverse health outcomes.

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

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Sleep duration is important, but so is sleep consistency
✅Going to bed and waking up at roughly the same time every day helps regulate your circadian rhythm.
🔸Irregular sleep schedules are associated with poorer metabolic health, mood disturbances, and daytime sleepiness.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Hold in a fart and your gut wall soaks up a big share of the gas, sends it into your blood, and you breathe it back out through your lungs a few minutes later. None of it vanishes. It just leaves on a slower, quieter route.

In careful experiments, a gut specialist named Michael Levitt found the gut absorbs about half the gas moving through it. The other half goes two places. Some backs up into your colon and stretches the walls, which is that bloated, crampy feeling when you hold one in too long. The rest just waits. It tends to slip out later, often while you are asleep and the muscle that keeps everything shut relaxes on its own.

The proof that you breathe out your own gas is sitting in hospitals right now. Lactose intolerance gets diagnosed with a breath test. You drink a measured sugar, your gut bacteria feed on it, and the hydrogen they make crosses into your blood and shows up in your breath a couple of hours later. The test only works because gas from your gut ends up in your lungs.

You will not smell or taste any of this. More than 99% of a fart is odorless gas, mostly nitrogen, hydrogen and methane. The stink comes from sulfur compounds (the rotten-egg stuff) that make up under 1%, and those get absorbed and broken down so fast they almost never survive the trip.

The average person makes about half a liter to a liter and a half of gas a day, roughly a large soda bottle, and passes it more than a dozen times. Most you never notice. The ones you hold just take the long way out.

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How Ancient Romans made water flow uphill without pumps.

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"Dr, I pass urine 40 times a day. " When Arjun arrived at my desk with this complaint, I was initially skeptical. Pts hv a habit of exaggerating symptoms to get the attention of the dr. This college student came to me with a backpack. It contained spare clothes. His bladder had become the central theme of his life.

He described a nightmare that shook me. Frequency/ Urgency/ Pelvic pain/ Burning Urination/ sometimes he woke up 15-20 times at night just to urinate. Miserable, just to hear.

The obvious diagnosis was UTI. Except that it wasn't. He had been extensively tested for Urine infection. At the best hospitals. All tests were negative. Another dr had diagnosed Overactive Bladder. Except that not a single drug for this worked. The man was a miserable wreck. We got psychiatrist's help for his suicidal ideas. Genitourinary Tuberculosis had been ruled out by one of the finest urologists of India.

Tests began. Ultrasound- normal. Kidneys- normal. Blood tests- normal. I posted him for cystoscopy at the very next elective OT. Something, previous Urologists strangely had not done, in this 24 yr old. For reasons known only to them. We do it routinely when we suspect GU- Tuberculosis. Cystoscopy is putting a camera inside ur bladder to visually inspect & get other details about it.

Cystoscopy was one test that changed everything. The bladder was, to put it mildly, shocking. Not one of a healthy young adult. The lining was inflamed. Ulcerated. Scarred.
It looked decades older than him. Something was actively destroying his bladder. But, what? Certainly not Tuberculosis. Since a Urologist, microbiologist,& pulmonologist had put their minds together to rule it out at a previous centre.

In the post-op ward, the next day I asked him-" Do u take recreational drugs?" "Only Ketamine, dr."....!!! The diagnosis was obvious now- Ketamine induced cystitis. An anaesthetic drug. Sometimes (clandestinely) used recreationally. Ketamine & its metabolites r excreted in urine. Repeated exposure damages the bladder lining->Inflammation -> ulceration ->fibrosis. The bladder slowly shrinks. Sometimes to a size less than a teacup.

I performed bladder augmentation surgery- using part of the intestine to increase bladder capacity. After surgical recovery, he was admitted to a Psychiatric deaddiction centre.. Not every miserable health issue comes from infection. Or cancer. Or genetics. Sometimes it comes from a single wrong decision taken at a party.
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