Can you even guess what this blog post is about? I doubt it. This is not the regularly scheduled blog post of the day. I had to take a moment to embrace the fact that I have a public platform in which to announce that I hate spiders. It wasn’t nearly as bad until I saw [...]

In 2004 a study was done (1)  that showed that lack of sleep for a short period of time saw an 18 percent decrease in leptin, a hormone that helps regulate the brains signaling for need of food, and a 28 percent increase in ghrelin, a hormone that triggers hunger. What this means is that [...]