I am not a shift worker. My battle was with insomnia, the kind where you are lying in the dark at 3 AM begging your brain to shut off. But my close friend John is different. John drives a tram in the city. He doesn’t have the luxury of a consistent 23:40 bedtime. One week […]

I used to love Saturday mornings. Or rather, I used to love Saturday afternoons. For years, my Friday routine was sacred. After a week of grinding stress, I would stay up until 2:00 AM, smoking, drinking wine (which I now know destroys REM sleep), and watching movies. I told myself I earned it. Saturday was […]

You have the perfect mattress. You take magnesium. You go to bed at 10 PM. Yet, you wake up at 7 AM with a dull, throbbing headache, dry eyes, and a feeling of “heaviness” that takes two cups of coffee to shake off. You might be poisoning yourself every night. Not with chemicals, but with […]

You are lying in bed. It is completely silent. Suddenly, a car drives by, or the floorboards creak. Your eyes snap open. We often assume that silence is the gold standard for sleep. But for the human brain, total silence can be a trap. In the absence of sound, your brain becomes hypersensitive, treating every […]

You land in London at 8:00 AM. Your body thinks it is 2:00 AM. You have a meeting in four hours, but your brain feels like it is filled with wet cement. You power through the day, crash at 7:00 PM, and wake up wide awake at 3:00 AM staring at the ceiling. This is […]

You have tried magnesium. You have tried blue light blockers. You have tried melatonin pills. But you still toss and turn at 11:00 PM, and you drag yourself out of bed at 7:00 AM feeling like a zombie. The problem isn’t your nightly routine. The problem is your morning routine. According to Dr. Andrew Huberman, […]