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Maybe it started over a holiday weekend when you stayed up too late three nights in a row. Maybe it was jet lag from international travel that never quite resolved. Maybe it was a few weeks of working from home with no fixed routine, or shift work, or a stressful period where bedtime kept getting
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You’re lying in bed. The clock says 1:47 a.m. Your alarm is going off in 5 hours and 13 minutes. You’ve been trying to fall asleep for over an hour, and the harder you try, the more impossible it becomes. So you reach for your phone — the worst possible thing you could do —
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Eight hours. That’s the answer everyone has heard. Get eight hours of sleep, drink eight glasses of water, exercise five times a week, and you’ll be healthy. The eight-hour rule has the comforting authority of something we’ve repeated for decades. The only problem is that, like most simple health rules, it’s an oversimplification that has
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“What is insomnia?” gets typed into Google more than 35,000 times every month. The fact that this many people are searching the most basic question about a condition that affects roughly one-third of all adults says something important: the conventional definitions aren’t actually clarifying anything. Most articles tell you insomnia is “difficulty falling asleep or
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“Why can’t I sleep?” is the most-asked sleep question in 46 US states. It’s typed into Google millions of times every month, often at 2 a.m., often by people who have spent the last hour staring at the ceiling, wondering what is wrong with them. If that’s how you arrived at this article, you’re not
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You’re lying in bed, exhausted, and your body does something strange. Your nose starts to stuff up. Your skin begins to itch — not everywhere, just in patches, or around the face and scalp. Your heart rate feels slightly elevated. You might feel warm without sweating. And your brain, despite your desperate exhaustion, is buzzing
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Cortisol gets blamed for everything. Stressed? Cortisol. Can’t sleep? Cortisol. Gaining weight? Cortisol. The wellness internet has turned it into a villain — something to be suppressed, detoxed, or hacked out of existence. But cortisol isn’t the enemy. You need it. Without it, you can’t wake up in the morning, respond to emergencies, regulate blood
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You’re bloated after every meal. Your stomach distends like you’re six months pregnant after eating a salad. Gas is constant and embarrassing. You’ve cut out gluten, dairy, FODMAPs, and half the foods you used to enjoy — and the bloating persists. And somewhere alongside the digestive misery, your sleep fell apart. Not dramatically. Gradually. Lighter.
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If someone told you that the most important organ for sleep wasn’t your brain but your intestines, you’d probably think they were wrong. Sleep happens in the brain. Sleep is regulated by the brain. The brain makes melatonin. The brain drives the circadian clock. End of story. Except it’s not. Over the last decade, research
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Your legs won’t stop moving. An irresistible urge to shift, flex, kick — worst right at bedtime when you desperately need to be still. Or maybe it’s not the legs specifically — maybe it’s a generalised restlessness, a sense that your body is simultaneously exhausted and unable to settle. You’ve tried magnesium. Tried melatonin. Tried
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