Finally, there’s a cure for just generally feeling like shit
There’s a cure or a potential cure for almost everything these days, and now there’s a cure for just the general malaise of life sucking. If you’re a chronic sufferer of the life sucks syndrome, all you need apparently is a little orexin.
When you get sick, it usually comes along with one or more acute symptoms: coughing, sneezing, headaches, things like that. But much of the time, you also feel terrible in a more general sense: you’re tired and don’t have the energy or the desire to do anything, and in some respects, that’s the worst part of being sick.
This feeling is caused by your body diverting all of its resources into fighting whatever is making you ill, sapping you of energy and making you not want to do anything besides lie around and sleep. As it turns out, there are a bunch of neurons in your brain that are responsible for producing a neuropeptide hormone called orexin that controls things like wakefulness, appetite, desire for physical activity and overall arousal and interest. When you get sick, the neurons stop making orexin (probably to encourage you to sleep more to let yourself get better), which is where that awful “I’m sick” feeling comes from.
Fuck, gimme a handful like right now.
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