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“Lose weight and sleep on your side” is the standard answer to the question, what causes snoring in women? It’s incomplete. Weight can narrow the airway, but so can nasal resistance, jaw structure, airway muscle tone, alcohol, sedatives, pregnancy, and the hormonal changes of menopause. A lean woman can snore, and a woman whose snoring
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Ambien (zolpidem) and the other “Z-drugs,” Lunesta (eszopiclone) and Sonata (zaleplon), are among the most commonly prescribed insomnia medications, but they carry the FDA’s strongest possible warning label. In 2019, the FDA added a Boxed Warning to all three drugs after identifying 66 cases over 26 years of serious injury or death linked to “complex
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Most advice on decision fatigue starts with the wrong diagnosis. It tells high performers to strengthen willpower, make fewer choices, or push important work to the morning, as if judgment were stored in a tank that empties with use. That model is too neat for the way poor decisions appear in demanding careers. A tired
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Sleep restriction therapy (SRT) sounds backwards: it treats insomnia by temporarily reducing the amount of time you spend in bed, not increasing it. The logic is that lying in bed for 8 or 9 hours while only sleeping for 6 trains your brain to associate bed with wakefulness and frustration, and dilutes your natural sleep
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You wake after seven hours of sleep, open your phone, and feel behind before your feet touch the floor. The calendar is full, yesterday’s unresolved decisions are still active in your head, and by midafternoon you’re reaching for caffeine or sugar to maintain output. That pattern can persist even when you meditate, train regularly, and
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Melatonin for jet lag is, ironically, the one use case where the evidence is genuinely strong, in real contrast to melatonin’s weak evidence for general chronic insomnia, which we cover in Melatonin and Sleep. A Cochrane systematic review of 10 randomized controlled trials found that melatonin, taken close to bedtime at your destination, reduced jet
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At 2:14 a.m., the board memo is still open, the email draft is half-written in your head, and tomorrow’s first meeting is getting closer. You’ve already tried blackout blinds, a melatonin gummy, and a breathing app that lost you somewhere around the breath-counting instructions. Then the second wind arrives, precisely when you need sleep most.
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You’ve finished a demanding day, but your brain hasn’t received the message. The podcast is paused, the lights are low, and you’re still replaying a difficult meeting or mentally drafting tomorrow’s priorities. You’re tired, yet sleep feels just out of reach. That’s why so many professionals ask, does music help you sleep, or does it
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5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) is the direct chemical link between tryptophan and serotonin, one step closer to serotonin in the pathway than tryptophan itself, and it crosses into the brain more readily. That raises the same question we explored in Serotonin and Sleep: since serotonin’s well-established primary role is promoting wakefulness and inhibiting REM sleep, not sedating
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Diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in Benadryl, Unisom SleepTabs, ZzzQuil, and most “PM” pain reliever formulations, is one of the most commonly used sleep aids in the US, despite not actually being recommended for regular sleep use by sleep medicine guidelines. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s 2017 clinical practice guideline recommends against using diphenhydramine for
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