I spent a decade in darkened sleep labs, watching patients twitch and gasp while tethered to a headbox, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the wellness industry is selling you a fantasy. You’ve been told that “optimising” your life requires expensive supplements, blue-light blocking glasses, and a dozen different apps to track your REM cycles, but most of that is just expensive noise. We need to stop treating sleep like a luxury performance metric and start looking at the messy, biological reality of how sleep and wellbeing interact. The truth is often much simpler—and much more…