Sleep
Sleep is the nightly repair cycle that shapes mood, memory, and metabolism — find essays on insomnia, sleep hygiene, REM cycles, and honest mattress notes.
Foods to Avoid Before Bed: What Sleep Hygiene Actually Asks of Your Dinner
At 10:47 p.m. on a Tuesday, I ate a bowl of tonkotsu ramen — the kind with a film of pork fat on top thick enough to hold a chopstick at a slight angle. I was hungry.
Sleep-Promoting Foods: What the Evidence Actually Says About Natural Sleep Aids on Your Plate
There is a glass of tart cherry juice in roughly half the sleep articles on the internet, and it is usually doing more work than the underlying study can support.
One Night in a Headset: What Artificial Intelligence Did to My Sleep Onset After Coffee
The experiment Tuesday, 4:30pm: a double espresso, 18g in, 36g out, roughly 180mg of caffeine on my usual scale. I know what this does to me.
Sleep Aids for Children: What I Actually Tried, and What the Evidence Says
A pediatrician I trust said something last winter that I've been turning over since: "The melatonin gummy is doing less than the bedtime story, and the bedtime story is free." I had asked her…
Yoga for Sleep: What Actually Happens in the Body When You Try It
The number that gets passed around is striking: in a 2013 study from Khalsa's group at Harvard, chronic insomnia patients who did an eight-week yoga practice improved their sleep efficiency by roughly…
Sleep in Pregnancy: Why the Third Trimester Breaks Your Nights, and What Actually Helps
Here is the counterintuitive part: the broken sleep of late pregnancy is not a malfunction. It is a system working exactly as designed.