Henry Ashford
Neuroticism and Exercise: Is Quitting the Gym a Character Flaw or a Factory Setting?
The question I kept circling was narrow and a little humiliating: after fifteen years of joining gyms and quitting them, is my inability to stick with exercise a defect of character I could fix with…
Reading Your myAir Score Without Gaming It: What CPAP Therapy Actually Rewards
You wake up, reach for your phone, and there it is: an 82. Or a 96. Or, on the night you slept like the dead, a disappointing 71 because the mask slipped at 4 a.m. The number feels like a grade.
The Weight-Gain Trap of Sleep Apnea: Why the Cause and Effect Run Both Ways
You have probably heard the tidy version. Weight goes up, the airway gets crowded, the throat collapses at night, and you snore your way into a diagnosis.
Three Months on CPAP Therapy: Nasal Pillows vs. Nasal Mask vs. Full-Face
For three months I slept under a sleep-tracking app and a prescription, swapping one piece of equipment every few weeks: the mask.
Sleep Apnea Definition: I Wore a Home Test for a Month to See What "Stops Breathing in Your Sleep" Actually Means
For a condition defined by something as basic as breathing, the sleep apnea definition is oddly hard to pin to a felt experience.
The VPAP and COPD Treatment: Where the Standard Advice Holds, and Where It Frays
The standard clinical advice goes something like this. If you have obstructive sleep apnea, you get CPAP. If you have COPD with daytime hypoxemia, you get supplemental oxygen.
What Hadza Sleep Logs Reveal About Cross-Cultural Sleep Patterns (and the 6.25-Hour Number)
A 2015 paper in Current Biology by Jerome Siegel and colleagues followed three pre-industrial groups — the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia, and the Tsimane of Bolivia — with wrist actigraphy for…
A Six-Week Experiment in Sleep Prioritization Over the 5 a.m. Gym Alarm
For six weeks, I ran a small experiment on myself: weeks one through three, I kept the 5 a.m. gym alarm I'd been setting for most of two years.
Best Travel CPAP Machines (2026): AirMini vs. Transcend Micro vs. Z2 Auto
The best travel CPAP machine for most people is still the ResMed AirMini — if you can tolerate its waterless humidification and proprietary tubing.