Dr. Nancy Snyderman was on Morning Joe and said that if you get less than 6 hours of sleep...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...you have a four times greater risk of stroke.

I get about 3.

There's no way I'd get more without a pill.

Disclaimer: This isn't a "medical advice" thread, because yeah...I know they're against the rules.

[lunatica]

1. I usually get about 5 hours

But I don't feel tired during the day like I used to when I was younger. I think as you grow older you need less sleep. I don't nap either.

And if I get a lot of sleep one night I can't sleep the next night.

[ananda]

17. I grok that.

I sleep enough for me, but I'm like you are lunatica. Five or six hours will do it, and if I sleep a long night, I will stay awake till all hours the next night.

[slackmaster]

2. Dibs on your prized collection of Hummel figurines

What else do you have?

But seriously, I hope you don't have other risk factors working against you.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Once again stressing the fact that this is not a "medical advice" thread...

...I had my blood pressure tested on Monday and it is 162/90. And I was in a relatively good mood when it was taken. When I am in the process of making sales calls and soliciting new business I am significantly more amped up. Those are HIGH numbers, but in my life they were LOW. The "hat trick" is that I also have a few extra pounds I'm carrying...I am not "morbidly obese" or anything, but I have a few pounds I could stand to lose.

Reminder: This is not a "medical advice" thread...

[GoCubsGo]

12. White coat hypertension

Many people's blood pressure goes up in a clinical setting. It may or may not be a sign of real hypertension. If you are that worried about it, go to the drug store and get a blood pressure monitor and monitor yourself. Then lose the weight and cut back your sodium intake.

[Iris]

14. Did the report discuss weight management and sleep?

I know there's a connection for me. If I don't get enough sleep, I'm hungrier throughout the day and crave carbs.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. No, they pretty much stuck to sleep

Mika said "I can't go to sleep at 7 PM unless I take an Ambien."

Snyderman said "That's not ideal sleep, but it's sleep."

[CTyankee]

3. I couldn't make it until she and zeke emanuel came on. MJ was too repulsive.

Beady-eyed Joe and the vomitous nicole wallace poisoned the discussion early on. barnicle was his usual useless self with smarmy willy's "me too-ism" in nauseating evidence.

I spent some time with Bill Press but then turned the set off.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I only hung in there for that statement

Scarborough was at his snarky, whiny worst over President Obama's "You go into a really nice restaurant and order steak" remarks. And yeah, Nicolle Wallace wasn't an "incentive" to watch. But I wanted to hear the sleep segment because I basically have a horse in that race.

[CTyankee]

6. I guess that since I got up a bit early this morning I settled in for MJ a little earlier.

It is now getting to the point where I mute whole segments and only tune in for reasonable dialogs. But I was finished with breakfast and my two morning newspapers early and decided to get going on DU upstairs. I am watching Bill Press more and more.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. I have a weird thing going on with cable...

...I think I need to buy a new coax cable. I have Current TV as part of my cable package, but I can't get it...or a few other channels...on anything other than a sporadic basis. Sometimes if I jiggle the cable it will come in, then it goes out, then I jiggle it again and it comes back. The only reason I stopped watching "Young Turks" and Jennifer Granholm in the evenings was the reception issue.

[CTyankee]

8. I check out chris matthews to see what's going on with him while I fold laundry...

He's been pretty good lately. But that's about it with evening TV for me.

I am in a book surplus right now and trying to keep up...

[AngryOldDem]

11. Not watching Joe could help your blood pressure.

I bailed when he went on the steak tangent.

[noamnety]

9. This doesn't surprise me at all.

Lack of sleep = higher levels of the hormone cortisol = weight gain = higher risk of stroke.

There could also be other links between the lack of sleep and stroke risk, even if a person is a healthy weight. But there already is a proven relationship between each of those elements.

[AngryOldDem]

10. I don't sleep well in the first place.

So now, knowing this information, I'll sleep better?

The causation of these things always amuses me. How do they know for sure that X correlates to Y?

Tomorrow they'll have a study that says if you get more than six hours of sleep, you'll die from a heart attack.

[RiffRandell]

13. I suffer from insomnia.

Out of curiousity, what sleep aid do you take? I take Ambien, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The only time I sleep for a good stretch is after nights of not sleeping for more than a couple hours at a clip. I hate it.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. I don't take anything

I used to take Xanax, but I haven't in years. I know it's not a "sleep aid" in the strict definition, but that's how I used it.