On November 10, I posted on how important sleep was for a longer and healthier life . I Indicated I had a revelation which could well be the key to solving my sleep problem. This clue had to do with the fact that I had difficulty sleeping when my blood pressure was high. So I searched the world-wide web and found numerous studies linking poor sleep to high blood pressure . Amazing, in that I've been taking these hypertension pills for decades and I never in the past connected high blood pressure with trouble sleeping. From Harvard . Compared to women who slept seven to eight hours daily, those who slept six or five hours were 7% and 10% more likely to develop hypertension. Those women who had trouble falling or staying asleep were 14% to 28% more likely to have high blood pressure. Surely, can't be much different for males, too. But does lack of sleep cause high blood pressure, or vice versa? From the Mayo Clinic . Is it true that not getting enough sleep can cause hi
Our 35-day Norwegian Encore cruise from Seattle to Southampton was both very good and very bad. The ship, service, food, drinks and entertainment were wonderful. Probably best ever of any cruise. The bad had to do with me. Maybe it was the traveling east, or that I'm more of a landlubber. My body is old, and could not adjust to the constant time changes. I found in the past that flying east was terrible for me. So all my global journeys have been in the westward direction. It's possible that I will in the future avoid anything going east, including on ships. The worst thing is that I had difficulty sleeping. Sleep is very important. Last night, for example, I was in bed for 14 hours and slept only 3 hours, at most. On land. I'm worried about the remaining days. We don't return to Hawaii until December 7, which is 16 days away. I hope I can ultimately recover at home. With that dire thought, let me mention some of the other negatives. I drank, ate and par