I’ve spent seventeen years watching people’s brainwaves on a monitor, and if there is one thing I can tell you, it’s that your expensive wearable is lying to you about your “sleep score” when you’ve had a glass of wine. People come into my clinic convinced they need a magnesium supplement or a weighted blanket, when the reality is far more blunt: they are trying to medicate a sleep architecture that has been systematically dismantled by a nightly ritual. We need to stop talking about “mindful sipping” and start talking about the physiological reality of how alcohol reduction improves wellbeing…

I spent a decade in the dark, watching people struggle through sleep studies while tethered to a headbox, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the fitness industry loves to sell you a solution that doesn’t exist. You’ll see influencers peddling expensive magnesium blends or high-tech compression gear as the magic fix for fatigue, but they rarely talk about the actual physiological cost of your mileage. Most people trying to figure out how endurance training affects recovery are being sold a fantasy of “optimized” rest, when the reality is often much more basic—and much more frustrating. They…

I spent a decade in the dark, watching patients twitch and toss under a mountain of wires, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that people love to overcomplicate their biology. Lately, I’ve seen a wave of fitness influencers claiming that heavy lifting is either a magical sedative or a complete sleep-killer, depending on which supplement they’re trying to sell you. They love to talk about “cortisol spikes” and “central nervous system fatigue” as if they’ve solved the mystery, but they rarely stop to ask when you actually get up in the morning. The truth about how strength…