Teens and Energy Drinks: Why Sleep Pays the Price
Teens and energy drinks: what a 300-milligram can does to an adolescent night, why the school schedule makes it worse, and the conversation that helps.
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The Sleep Effort Paradox, Explained
The sleep effort paradox explained: why trying harder to fall asleep is the exact thing keeping you awake, and the boring tools that work instead of effort.
Myth vs Fact: You Must Empty Your Mind to Sleep
The empty your mind sleep myth, unpacked: why a busy mind doesn't need blanking, what sleep effort does, and the boring jobs that beat trying.
Overtraining and Insomnia: When Exercise Backfires
Can overtraining insomnia wreck your nights even when exercise usually helps sleep. Where the line sits between useful movement and training that fights your rest.
Why Writing Worries Down Helps You Sleep
Writing worries down before bed gives each one a next step or a slot, closing the open loops your brain keeps reopening at 3 a.m. A ten-minute fix.
5 Signs Effort Is Keeping You Awake
5 signs effort is keeping you awake, from clock-watching to trying harder each night. How sleep effort works, why it backfires, and what to do instead.
Sleep Divorce: Should Couples Sleep in Separate Rooms
Sleep divorce sounds dramatic, but for about one in four couples it means sleeping apart some nights. What the book says about rooms, snoring, and marriages.
Coffee Naps: Why Caffeine Plus a Short Nap Works
Coffee naps sound like a gimmick, but caffeine plus a 20-minute nap stacks two kinds of alertness. How the timing works, who they help, and when they backfire.
The Show That Auto-Played: A Bedtime Story
One show auto-played its way through three episodes and forty minutes of sleep. Where streaming actually costs you at night, and the two-minute fix that ends it.
Caffeine and Shift Work: Timing Cups When Nights Flip
Caffeine and shift work: how to time coffee when your nights flip, where the cutoff lands on a night shift, and why the can doesn't get an exemption.