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Sleep as a Strategic Resource: Not Rest, but Managing the Future
About this audiobook
This book invites the reader to view sleep as a living, self‑adjusting system that continuously reconfigures itself across body, psyche, social ties, information flows, and large historical events. Drawing on the Theory of Functional Systems, we move from the basic architecture of NREM and REM sleep to daytime rhythm and the roles of light, noise, stress, and war, showing how 24‑hour homeokinesis supports survival, learning, and decision‑making. Separate parts of the book focus on daytime sleep and napping, psychological tools (CBT‑I, rituals, body‑based practices), family and collective sleep configurations (from bedrooms to volunteer groups and military units), pharmacological interventions, gadgets, and the “red flags” that require medical care. In the end, sleep emerges as a strategic resource: the way we organize night‑time cycles shapes not only personal resilience and health, but also the quality of decisions—from small everyday choices to those that define the future of communities and of the noosphere as a whole. By retuning our own sleep system, we influence not only the trajectory of our own life but also how the communities we belong to think and act.
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Beyond the Dichotomy: When a Heart Attack and Broken Heart Syndrome Are One
Science rarely arrives as a single revelation. More often, it accumulates — in clinical observations that don't fit the textbook, in questions that outlast careers, and in the partnerships that make sustained thinking possible. The theory I want to describe here is the product of all three. Vladimir Shlyakhover was once my student. He has long since become my colleague in science and my friend in life. We are both from Ukraine — he now lives in Israel, I in the United States. Between us we carry decades of clinical and research experience with the heart under stress. And together we have arrived at something we no longer call a hypothesis. We call it a theory — because the evidence, in our view, demands that elevation. The Two Diagnoses That Should Not Be Separate Cardiology has long maintained a clean boundary between two cardiac conditions. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) — the classic heart attack — is understood as the consequence of a blocked coronary artery: oxygen ...
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