If you find yourself waking up tired after eight hours of sleep, you aren’t alone. Nearly half of all Americans report feeling sleepy throughout the day between three and seven days each week. Around 35 percent of U.S. adults say they sleep less than...
Breathing is something we do all day, every day. The average human takes 12 to 16 breaths per minute, which means that in all likelihood you’ve taken a breath or two since the time you started reading this, without even noticing....
We all need sleep to function. But when you break down the reality of sleep, it’s kind of unsettling to ponder. We lay in the dark, unconscious, moving very little (if at all) for several hours at a time. Sometimes,...
Almost 50 percent of older adults suffer from insomnia. It’s no surprise, then, that the use of melatonin supplements known to induce sleep has quintupled since the late 1990s. But is melatonin all it’s hyped up to be? As melatonin use rises, so do...
The Danish concept of “hygge” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017, but this term existed long before then. Whether you’ve heard of the term or not, you’ve likely participated in it without even knowing. Your favorite pair of sweatpants,...
What do professional athletes like Manchester City striker Erling Haaland and World number one tennis player Iga Swiatek have in common with celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Graham? They all use mouth tape for a balanced lifestyle and better...
From quiet snorts to loud gasps that sound like a jet plane, the majority of adults snore. An estimated 25 percent of adults snore on a regular basis, disrupting their sleep as well as their partner’s. Just because snoring is commonplace doesn’t...
Non-sleep deep rest, also called NSDR, is a term coined by Andrew Huberman, a Stanford University neuroscientist best known for his “Huberman Lab” podcast. Although the NSDR sleep protocol is commonly thought of as a biohacking trend, it has ties to...
Most of us have felt our eyes become heavy shortly after a delicious meal. Have you ever been curious about why you seem to crash after you eat? Multiple potential causes for that after-lunch or after-dinner slump exist – and...
Falling short on sleep may not seem like that big of a deal, but it quickly disrupts productivity and wellbeing. While you may think that being awake longer equates to getting more done, the opposite is true. In fact, research shows that...
