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Sleep Economy: Tracking, Hacking, Buying Rest
The sleep industry hits $585 billion as Americans invest in mattresses, trackers, and supplements to optimize rest. But obsessing over sleep data might actually backfire.
Feb 15, 2024
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What Short Sleep Actually Does to Metabolic Health, According to Research
Trials now show insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity directly, independent of weight gain, reshaping how doctors talk about diabetes risk.
Nov 2, 2024
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Sleeping Through a Gulf Summer: Why Heat Wrecks Sleep and What Helps
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
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Yoga Nidra Is Not Sleep, and the Research on It Is Better Than the Research on Most Things Sold Beside It
A guided practice of lying still while systematically moving attention around the body. It has accumulated a real randomised trial literature for sleep, stress and anxiety, and a rebranded version has attracted claims that literature does not support.
Sep 4, 2026
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GLP-1 Drugs Are Becoming More Than Weight Loss Medicine
Tirzepatide just earned an approval that has nothing to do with the scale. Here is what SELECT, FLOW and the new sleep apnea data show.
Jan 8, 2025
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A Bedroom That Is Not Quite Dark Is Linked to a Thicker, Stiffer Heart, in the First Study to Measure Both
Eleven thousand people wore a light sensor for a week. Three years later, those who slept in more than three lux, a very dim room, had thicker left ventricles and muscle that flexed less. The differences are small. Cardiologists still care.
Sep 12, 2026
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How to Hold Yourself Together When the Region Is on Fire
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 13, 2026
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Mental Health During War: What Helps When the Threat Is Not Over
Fear, disrupted sleep, grief and irritability are common during conflict. Evidence-based support begins with safety and practical care, while recognizing when professional help is urgent.
Jul 25, 2026
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Menopause Brain Fog Is Real, but It Is Not a Personal Failure
A new WHO discussion brings cognition and mental health into menopause care, where sleep, mood, symptoms and individual medical history all matter.
Jul 31, 2026
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Talking to Children About a War They Can Already See
Children absorb far more than parents realise, and silence does not protect them. What helps is honest, age-appropriate information, predictable routine, and adults who manage their own distress in front of them.
Aug 13, 2026
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Detox Is a Word That Describes Two Real Things and Almost Nothing Sold Under Its Name
Detoxification is a genuine medical process and a genuine biochemical one. Neither has anything to do with juice cleanses, foot pads or teas, and the marketing depends on never naming which toxin is being removed.
Sep 4, 2026
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Watching From Abroad: When the War Is at Home and You Are Not
For much of the Gulf's working population, the conflict is somewhere their family lives and they do not. The particular difficulty of that position is helplessness, and there are things that genuinely help with it.
Aug 13, 2026
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Ayurveda Deserves to Be Taken Seriously, Which Means Saying That One in Five Products Tested Contained Lead
A three thousand year old medical system with real insights about routine, diet and constitution also has a documented contamination problem. Two studies published in JAMA found heavy metals in about a fifth of the Ayurvedic products they tested.
Sep 4, 2026
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Creatine: The Most-Studied Supplement and What It Actually Does
Decades of trials back creatine for muscle and strength, and newer research is testing brain benefits, but the hype has outrun some of the data.
Aug 19, 2024
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Cold Showers and Ice Baths: A Dutch Trial Found Fewer Sick Days, a New Review Found Inflammation. Both Are Right
Three thousand Dutch adults who ended their showers cold took fewer sick days. A 2025 review of eleven trials found stress fell twelve hours after a plunge and inflammation rose. What is known, what is marketing, and why the first minute can kill.
Sep 6, 2026
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Digital Mindfulness at Work Is Moving From Wellness Advice to Management Practice
New research on mindful technology use reframes burnout as a work-design problem involving notifications, norms and control, not just an employee resilience problem.
Jul 24, 2026
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Ashwagandha Has Good Trial Data for Stress and a Growing File of Liver Injury Reports
The most popular Ayurvedic herb in the world looks reassuring in clinical trials and much less so in hepatology case series. A systematic review has identified thirty-seven cases of ashwagandha-associated liver injury.
Sep 4, 2026
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Diabetic Nerve Damage Can Mean Burning Pain or Feeling Nothing at All. It Is the Same Condition
One patient cannot bear a bedsheet touching their feet. Another cannot feel a nail through their shoe. Both have diabetic neuropathy, and the second is in more danger than the first.
Jul 28, 2026
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Mounjaro and Zepbound: The Case for Two Hormones at Once
Tirzepatide just beat semaglutide head to head in a major trial. Here is what SURMOUNT and SURPASS data actually shows about hitting two receptors.
Dec 9, 2024
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Nobody Ever Found the Study Behind Eight Glasses of Water a Day, Because There Is Not One
A physiologist went looking for the origin of the rule in 2002 and came back empty. What the reference intakes actually say, why food and coffee count, how much the number varies between people, and when in a Gulf summer it genuinely matters.
Sep 6, 2026
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Loneliness Raises the Risk of Early Death by About a Quarter, and the World Health Organization Now Counts It as a Cause
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
