When you hear about night sweats, you probably think: menopause. It’s true that the menopausal transition is often accompanied by night sweats that significantly affect sleep.But hyperhidrosis—that’s the medical term for excessive sweating—can happen to anyone, adults...
This is not medical advice. It is information you can use as a conversation starter with your physician or nutritionist. With plant-based diets exploding in popularity, this seems like a good time to talk about how vegan and vegetarian diets interact with sleep. These...
Intuitively, you can probably guess that sleep affects self-control, but the ways in which that happens and leads to weight gain may be surprising. I think you’ll find this interesting as we approach the indulgent holidays beginning with Halloween. Halloween is...
I know a lot of you are interested in the connection between sleep and weight. Me too! (In fact, I wrote a best-selling book about it.) I’m also deeply interested in the relationship between sleep and gut health. As we’re learning, the gut microbiome—the collection of...
Have you identified your chronotype yet? It’s an incredibly important piece of information about your individual preferences for sleep, as well as nearly every aspect of health and performance. Knowing your circadian bio type gives you a guide to the best times to do...
You hear me say it all the time: sleep directly affects performance. The quality and amount of sleep you get on a regular basis affects your cognitive sharpness, your emotional balance, your stamina and motivation, your relationships and your perceptions of people,...
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