Your Phone Wakes You Faster Than A Human Voice
Harvard researchers played fourteen sounds to sleeping volunteers at rising volumes. The electronic ones won, and loudness had very little to do with it.
Lights Out
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
This Week In Lights Out: Light, Dose, Drainage, Pieces
A clock two hours late, a dose thirty times too big, a wash cycle that only runs at night, and the number your doctor never asks for.
Seven Hours In Pieces Is Not Seven Hours
Three letters from women whose nights get broken by somebody else. The lab settled this in 1985, and nobody passed the answer on.
Your Brain Has A Drain. It Only Opens At Night.
The space between your brain cells widens by 60% while you sleep, and a wash cycle runs through it. Short nights leave the cycle unfinished.
The Dose That Worked Was 0.3 mg. Your Gummy Holds 10
Thirty adults over fifty, four doses, and polysomnography. The smallest useful dose beat the one on your shelf by a factor of thirty.
The Equinox Lands Tuesday. Your Clock Is Two Hours Behind
Eight people camped for a week with no flashlights. Their clocks shifted two hours earlier, and they did not sleep a minute longer.
This Week In Lights Out: Feet, Brakes, Hunger, Nightcaps
5,322 studies on a warm bath, a dose that cut time-to-sleep to under six minutes, 270 calories, and the 9% one glass costs you.
One Glass Costs You 9%. Two Costs You 24%
The nightcap works, and that is exactly the trap. Sedation is not sleep, and 4,098 people wearing heart monitors settled the question.
Sleep Ninety Minutes More. Eat 270 Calories Less
No diet and no injection. Eighty adults slept longer for two weeks and quietly ate less, without ever being told to.
Every Sleep Gummy Lists GABA. None Of Them List How Much
The brain's own brake pedal, in a trial that cut time-to-sleep from thirteen minutes to under six. The shelf version is built to hide the dose.
A Four-Figure Cooling Bed, Or A Pair Of Socks
Your core temperature has to fall before sleep will start. The heat leaves through your hands and feet, and the machines are cooling the wrong surface.
This Week In Lights Out: Clocks, Cherries, Faces, Habits
845 people and one glucose drink, a mocktail measured properly at last, two faces at the same age, and three letters describing one mechanism.
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