Self Experiment
Self-experiments in sleep and coffee reveal what works for your body through tracking, habit change, and data-driven observation rather than theory alone.
I Tracked My Sleep for Six Weeks Around an Offensive Lineman's Schedule to Understand Sleep Apnea in Athletes
The healthiest-looking person on a roster can have the breathing of a man twenty years older and forty pounds heavier — because, for the duration of his career, he often is that man on paper.
Sleep Apnea and the Bedtime Espresso: A First-Person Test of Caffeine's Strange Second Life
For four weeks I drank espresso after dinner on purpose, with a diagnosed case of moderate obstructive sleep apnea and a CPAP machine logging everything. This is the report.
I Spent Three Weeks Testing Whether My Deviated Septum Was Actually Wrecking My Sleep
The mirror test is unkind. Tilt your head back, look up your own nostrils, and one side is a clean tunnel while the other is a closed curtain.
A 60-Day Mouth-Taping and Oropharyngeal Exercise Experiment for Mild Sleep Apnea
For sixty nights I ran a single-subject experiment on my own airway. I have mild positional sleep apnea — an at-home test put me at an AHI of 11.4, mostly supine — and I wanted to know whether the…
A Four-Week Experiment in Diet and Sleep Quality
The short version, before any of the caveats: across four weeks of tracking, the changes that actually shifted my sleep weren't the famous ones. Kiwis at 9 p.m. did nothing I could measure.
Cannabis and Sleep: I Tried to Use It as a Sleeping Pill for a Month
A friend who works night shift asked me, plainly, whether the joint he smokes at 6am to get to sleep is actually working or just feels like it is. He sleeps. He wakes up groggy.