Your Bed Has Been Taught The Wrong Job
Three letters this week, all describing the same thing without knowing it. Your brain has been quietly trained, and it can be trained back.
Lights Out
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
Your Night Cream Is Working On The Wrong Problem
Sixty women, two sleep groups, one aging score. The sun damage was identical. The gap was in the part no serum is sold for.
The Melatonin In Your Cherry Juice Is A Rounding Error
The mocktail is everywhere and the reason everyone gives for it is wrong. The compound that might actually be working is not the one on the label.
Your Dinner Time Matters More Than Your Dinner
845 people drank the same glucose drink at two different hours of the evening. The results were not remotely the same.
This Week In Lights Out: Light, Amino, Hormone, Myth
A hundred lux, 897 participants, one hormone that falls early, and the lab study that ruined the long-weekend lie-in. Everything worth keeping from all of it.
The Long Weekend Won't Undo Your Sleep Debt
A three-day weekend feels like a reset button. A 10-day lab study found your metabolism never got the memo.
Your Body Made Its Own Sedative For Thirty Years. Then It Quietly Stopped
Perimenopause went viral this year and the training rooms never caught up. The hormone behind your 3am waking falls years before anything else changes.
The Calm In Your Matcha Is Sold To You Bolted To A Stimulant
One amino acid is behind that awake-but-calm feeling everyone is chasing this year. The industry found it first, and welded it to caffeine.
Your Bedroom Isn't As Dark As You Think, And Your Heart Rate Knows It
A single night under light dim enough to call "dark" still raised heart rate and next-morning insulin resistance in a Northwestern trial. Here's what's actually leaking into your room.
This Week In Lights Out: Four Issues, One Pattern
Caffeine timing, chamomile doses, the sleep stage behind anxiety, and a diagnosis almost no woman is offered. Plus one thing to do this weekend.
Nine Out Of Ten Women With Sleep Apnea Never Find Out
Nearly one in five women have sleep apnea. The symptoms look so much like menopause, stress or insomnia that almost nobody goes looking.
One Bad Night Raises Anxiety 30%. The Calm Aisle Never Mentions It
Anxiety is the most common mental health complaint after sixty, and the sleep stage that regulates it fades with every decade. Here is how to hold on to it.
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