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by Dr. Basil Springer GCM

“When you lie down, you will not be concerned when you lie down, your slumber will be sweet.” – Proverbs 3:24

Guyanese Derrice Deane, a revered Caribbean-American Washington DC-based journalist, responded to a latest column, by commenting:

“Dear Basil: I agree with your prescription for ageing gracefully. I believe we would all do much better if extra health care practitioners have been dedicated to enthusiastically promoting that prescription as a lifestyle, alternatively than dependent on prescriptions for medicines with the belief or acceptance that ageing signifies disease or decay.

I am curious about Dr. Ramnarine’s lecture collection on Power Medicine.  Sounds appealing.

“I am also curious about your personal sleep pattern. I have not listened to of that ahead of.  Do those two-hour bouts of slumber transpire in a natural way or are they programmed? Do they come about within just a specified time frame, or spread out more than 24 several hours? I would like to have an understanding of the pondering behind the sample.  Cheers.”

My response: “Dear Derrice, thanks for endorsing my system. My very own clinical practitioners convey to me to continue to keep on performing what I am doing, so I try my most effective not to backslide. I have acknowledged Dr. Harry Ramnarine for about 10 many years, and I take pleasure in chatting with him as a fellow mathematician.

He loves to share his ideas and the outcomes of his work in power medicine. Make sure you speak to him at [email protected] – (868) 665 8041.”

Just one of my MPE colleagues Sajeel Nisar, who hails from Pakistan, also wrote to me final week: “Basil, requesting you to do yet another one particular (column) on the hourly division of the day. The operate, snooze and activity time plan. Personally, I know a couple people today who will reward, which includes myself.”

Enable me give some background as to how I have managed my “24 hours” above the many years. When I was at faculty, I was engaged in quite a few more-curricular routines and obtained household at dusk. Following dinner with the family, I was tired and not in the temper to do research at that time. I as a result went to rest.

I would increase from sweet slumber about 5 a.m.,…