most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-26T00:28:31Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/6763 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/56393/why-would-do-old-people-have-sex/57346#57346 Joe Thorpe 2011-08-11T04:57:24Z 2011-08-11T04:57:24Z

<p>We have sex 'cause we know what's actually attractive - and you don't, not yet.</p> <p>'Cause most of what you think is "hot", we know isn't hot at all - from sad experience over a lifetime, friend. </p> <p>Shallow good looks and a venal personality turn us off, not on. Unlike you, who haven't been betrayed by that succubus (or satyr) yet. Come talk to us soon, when your grief seems unfathomable and you can't understand why any young person would have sex, if it leads to so much pain. We won't mind your tears. We know there are many better nights to come in your life, when you're old enough to appreciate them.</p> <p>We love to have sex because we that know youthful narcissism is far uglier than a gentle wrinkle forming by fifty years of kindly smiling, and we also know that ignorance of the self makes you far more unattractive than being absent one or two of your natural teeth.</p> <p>Poor youth: what you see in a face of the opposite sex only what a photo of that person when they are unconscious would reveal: symmetric bone structure, skin tone, and that's about it. We see who they really are in the details of how they use every part of their face every split-second. Gorgeous. Which means we old folks get to have sex with actual <em>people</em>, while you're stuck with humping a very vague idea of what a person of the opposite sex might or might not be like, but actually isn't like at all. </p> <p>And the icing on the cake is, we still remember the vivid illusions of our youth, and can savor our memories of those youthful fireworks, too, without having to suffer the consequences of that craziness anymore.</p>

http://paleohacks.com/questions/57056/cant-sleep-past-3-4-am-feels-like-im-slowly-dying/57335#57335 Joe Thorpe 2011-08-11T04:29:07Z 2011-08-11T04:29:07Z

<p>Biphasic sleep is how we all sleep in a natural environment. That means being awake, in <em>total</em> darkness, for one to one and a half hours in the middle of the night is how sleep is SUPPOSED to be for humans. However, if you turn on the light, or have a little light coming in to your room, then your ipRGCs whack your master hormone melatonin, that starts the steroid daylight hormonal cycle and then that may be all the sleep you get. Stick with real darkness, and you'll get the rest of your sleep. I love that period in the middle of the nice. Lots of groovy endocannabinoids (which cannabis is a shallow imitation of). So I'm happy in the dark, and after a few weeks you will be too.</p> <p>Turn the lights off and leave them off for the same ten hour period every night. Actual darkness - if you can see your hand in front of your face it ain't dark. Red light is ok, the ipRGCs in your eyes that govern your whole biological clock can't detect red.</p> <p>Photoperiodeffect.com</p>