The Epoch Times posted a multipage article with several hypotheses as to why girls were reaching puberty earlier. Having experienced several sections of the United States which exhibited great differences in sexual maturity of girls in the 1960's, I wanted to add to the information by discussing what California teachers I knew in my Los Angeles school unanimously thought was the cause. Following is the letter I sent to the Epoch Times "Mind & Body" editor.

Dec 16, 2022, 18:27 EST 

Epoch Times 
Mind & Body…

VETERAN SUICIDES RELATED TO  
SINGLE- HEMISPHERIC SLEEP 

www.Irene Baron.com   https://irenebaron.com/irene-baron-blog 

Try to get rid of single-hemispheric sleep and sleep deprivation with all its side effects.
Be ready to sleep and to this YouTube presentation.
It is narrated by Mitch Bensel.

Scientific American MIND  magazine published proof that brains experience single-hemispheric sleep during stress situations.  What is more stressful than combat situations?

Stress situations are encountered by persons…

HOW-TO-SLEEP   by Irene Baron
Revised July 2021

Listen to the presentation, How To Relax & Sleep
narrated by Mitch Bensel.
 
 

PART II: 
SINGLE HEMISPHERIC SLEEP   

Persons in especially dangerous occupations have a history of being alert while sleeping. This includes those in the military in combat zones, law enforcement, and firefighters. When anyone is in a new or unfamiliar location, is worried and/or does not feel safe or secure, they cannot relax and may sleep in an alert mode with only one hemisphere of

SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND HEALTH
Sleep Deprivation caused by Single Hemispheric sleep
may be life-threatening
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Learn how to relax and fall asleep to lessen sleep deprivation. Be ready to sleep before listening to this YouTube presentation. It is narrated by Mitch Bensel.

I appear to be the first person to relate single hemispheric sleep with the high suicide rate of combat veterans.

The link between single hemispheric…

VETERAN SUICIDES RELATED TO  SINGLE- HEMISPHERIC SLEEP

www.Irene Baron.com   https://irenebaron.com/irene-baron-blog

Scientific American MIND  magazine published proof that brains experience single-hemispheric sleep during stress situations.

Stress situations are encountered by persons living in dangerous occupations such as the armed forces, law enforcement, and fire-fighting. Persons in the private sector may also have highly stressful jobs. One of the biggest impacts of single-hemispheric sleep is sleep…

Is Homosexuality Caused by Waterborne Estrogen?       
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Anything put on or in a human body eventually ends up in the ground water. Add to that the chemicals fed to or put on domestic animals and plants. Billions of tons of medicines and chemicals per year will eventually make their way to the water table, streams, rivers and oceans. Such chemicals have been found in ocean water at coastal…