Rachel Stanton
Sleep Apnea Severity Is a Number — and the Number Is Stranger Than It Looks
There is a number on your sleep study, and it probably has a decimal point. Maybe it says 27.4. Maybe 8.1, or 62.0.
Your CPAP Still Shows Apneas. That Doesn't Mean Your Sleep Apnea Treatment Failed
There is a small ritual that almost every CPAP user develops in the first week. You wake up, you pull the mask off, and before you've fully decided to be awake, your thumb is on the phone, opening the…
Sleep Nutrition: What the Food-and-Sleep Evidence Actually Supports
A glass of warm milk before bed is supposed to work because milk contains tryptophan, the amino acid your body turns into the sleep hormone melatonin.
I Did Both: A Home Test and a Sleep Lab for the Same Sleep Apnea Diagnosis
The advice you'll hear, from forums and increasingly from physicians themselves, is sensible: start with a home test.
After a Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: What the First Month Actually Looks Like
The home sleep test arrived in a padded envelope: a finger probe, a chest strap, a small recorder with a nasal cannula coiled like a question mark. I wore it for one night.
Depression and Sleep: The Case for Checking Your Breathing First
A meaningful fraction of what gets diagnosed as treatment-resistant depression isn't depression in the clean clinical sense. It's a breathing problem wearing depression's clothes.
Does Vaccination Help With Long-COVID? A First-Person Trial of the Evidence
A friend with eighteen months of post-viral fatigue told me, the week before my fourth dose, that I was making a mistake.
Fear and Sleep: Why Your Nervous System Won't Let You Rest, and What Actually Helps
The advice you've been given is some version of: relax, breathe, put your phone down, keep the bedroom cool. It is not wrong. It is just thin.
GERD and Sleep: What the Left-Side Rule Actually Gets Right
You have probably read, somewhere reputable-sounding, that sleeping on your left side cuts nighttime acid reflux by something like a third.