Michael Jackson's profound difficulty sleeping has taken center stage in the controversy surrounding his death, with expert testimony at his wrongful death trial suggesting the pop singer went a full 60 days without "real" sleep.
Jackson reportedly called propofol, the powerful anesthetic that ultimately caused his 2009 death, his "milk." Charles Czeisler, M.D., Ph.D., from the Division Of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, testified at the trial against concert promoter Aeg Live that the drug interrupts normal sleep cycles and deprives the body of rapid eye movement, or Rem, sleep, all while making a person feel as though he or she has had a true night's sleep, CNN reports.
"It would be like eating some sort of cellulose pellets instead of dinner," Czeisler said in his testimony, according to CNN. "Your stomach would be full and you would not be hungry, but it would be zero calories and...
Jackson reportedly called propofol, the powerful anesthetic that ultimately caused his 2009 death, his "milk." Charles Czeisler, M.D., Ph.D., from the Division Of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, testified at the trial against concert promoter Aeg Live that the drug interrupts normal sleep cycles and deprives the body of rapid eye movement, or Rem, sleep, all while making a person feel as though he or she has had a true night's sleep, CNN reports.
"It would be like eating some sort of cellulose pellets instead of dinner," Czeisler said in his testimony, according to CNN. "Your stomach would be full and you would not be hungry, but it would be zero calories and...
- 6/21/2013
- by Laura Schocker
- Huffington Post
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