Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Medicine: Mmm... Sleep

This one is just too good to pass up. NYT has a great health article today outlining one of the more unusual side effects of the sleeping pill Ambien: Sleep eating. Apparently an extremely small number of people taking Ambien sleep walk to their kitchen, consume thousands of calories, then go back to bed with no memory of the experience. Some even gain hundreds of pounds before alerting their doctor. Combine this with the known side effect of sleepdriving and suddenly Taco Bell's late night drive thru just got a whole lot more dangerous.

My question is: when can I get a pill that will make me sleep exercise?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that would be great, the one that will fund that pills will make a fortune, but may be less than the one who will find the one that will make your homework

Anonymous said...

Even better : sleepgovernment..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-hendra/no-more-ambient-governmen_b_17427.html

What's next?