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# Brain facts
- Your brain contains 60 billion cells.
- Each cell carries, on average 7000 connections to other cells.
- Yet your brain only weighs 3 pounds and uses just 10-23 watts of energy per day.
- Each year you will lose about 3.3 million brain cells.
- There is no truth in the myth that we only use 10% of brain power.
- The brain is capable of storing 10 trillion bits of information about you and your life experiences.
- The brain can make its own ‘heroin’.
- Being happy is good for the brain.
- Why is adolescence so difficult? One main reason is that, between puberty and early adulthood, the brain is being rebuilt.
- New experiences are vital for improved brain function.
- Emotional self-neglect can lead to food cravings and over-eating
- Regular sex (at least twice a week) improves daily moods, reduces pain thresholds, cuts the risk of a heart attack, decreases menstrual pain and promotes sleep.
- Love and sex can be addictive.
- The brain also contains a bonding chemical: oxytocin.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:23, archived)
# Reduces pain thresholds? You mean it makes you a wuss?
Fuck it, no more sex for me then!
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:25, archived)
# it makes you a long living sleepy, sex addicted wuss
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:27, archived)
# I think it is probably worth it
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:29, archived)
# Well it's a high price, but I'm glad I don't have to pay upfront.
Oh wait.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:31, archived)
# I just think I am being short changed
I will telephone the sex-commissioner immediately!
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:34, archived)
# Can't anymore - cutbacks
Ouch!
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:53, archived)
# No,
you're too busy watching crap TV.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:39, archived)
# TV FACTS
- Your TV contains 60 billion transistors.
- Each SKY subscription contains, on average 7000 shopping channels.
- Your TV only weighs 50 kg and whoever wrote this doesn't know what watts are.
- Each year you will lose about 30 TV remotes
- There is no truth in the myth that we only watch 10% of daytime TV.
- The SKY+ is capable of storing 50 hours of X-factor.
- Watching Jeremy Kyle will make you addicted to heroin.
- Watching university challenge is good for the brain.
- Why is adolescence so difficult? One main reason is that, between puberty and early adulthood, there are no good TV programs.
- New series are vital for improved viewing figures.
- Watching Masterchef can lead to food cravings and over-eating
- Regular porn-watching (at least twice a week) improves wrist strength, reduces tissue supplies, cuts the risk of swollen balls, decreases menstrual pain and promotes sleep.
- TV can be addictive.
- The TV also contains tasty mercury.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:50, archived)
# Class.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 1:11, archived)
# Hell yeah.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 3:45, archived)
# Nothing particularly groundbreaking there. I believe addiction to love was first described by prof. Robert Palmer in 1986.
He recorded that sufferers were unable to sleep or eat and this is often accompanied by throat tightness and difficulty in breathing.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:37, archived)
# I didn't think b3ta was ready for anything groundbreaking.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:51, archived)
# true, but he was only improving upon the theories developed by Dr. Heuy Lewis
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:55, archived)
# It's true that Dr Lewis was one of the first to recognise the potential benefits of love. However, it was Prof. Palmer's ground-breaking research that demonstrated the full dangers of love addiction.
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:59, archived)
# they're morish too
(, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 0:39, archived)