Tracking Your Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

Tracking Your Sleep: Foundational Sleep Hygiene

In the last few articles in this series, you’ve learned why sleep matters, you understand what happens during those precious hours of unconsciousness, how your sleep-wake cycle is regulated, and roughly how much sleep you actually need. Now comes the practical...
How to Become a Nutrition Coach

How to Become a Nutrition Coach

You want to help people eat better and improve their health. Maybe you’ve already transformed your own relationship with food and want to help others do the same. Or you’re a personal trainer tired of watching clients struggle with nutrition despite...
How Much Sleep Do You Need?

How Much Sleep Do You Need?

You’ve almost certainly asked yourself about how much sleep do you need before in some manner. Perhaps you’ve wondered whether you’re one of those rare individuals who thrives on five hours, or whether your persistent tiredness means you should be...
Sleep Regulation: Understanding Your Sleep-Wake Cycle

Sleep Regulation: Understanding Your Sleep-Wake Cycle

What actually controls when you fall asleep? What determines when you feel sleepy, when you wake up, and how well you sleep once you drift off? If you are like most people, you have probably never thought much about this, however, if you are looking to improve your...
What Does Sleep Do?

What Does Sleep Do?

Sleep is something that we all do, or at least we all have done. Despite this, it is still a somewhat mysterious thing. You would think that for something we do for one-third of our lives, we would have a pretty damn good understanding of it. However, this is not...
How to Improve Sleep Tonight: A Practical Guide

How to Improve Sleep Tonight: A Practical Guide

It’s 3pm on a Thursday afternoon. You’re sitting at your desk, eyes heavy, mind foggy, fighting the urge to put your head down right there on your keyboard. Last night was another rough one: lying awake, watching the ceiling, feeling that familiar knot of...