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Make Sleep Your Superpower: A Guide to Greater Health, Happiness & Productivity

Make Sleep Your Superpower: A Guide to Greater Health, Happiness & Productivity

"Learn how sleep works, its importance to physical, mental and emotional health, and how to set an individualized strategy for better sleep and better days."

2022

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Is 8 Hours of Sleep a Myth?

Most people sleep less and do fine, and new research finds ideal duration varies significantly across countries and cultures

May 7

Is 8 Hours of Sleep a Myth?

May 7

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What if the Main Theory of Cancer is Wrong?

Most and perhaps all cancer is caused by environmental factors and modifiable behaviors, not the genes we inherit, researchers say

Mar 18

What if the Main Theory of Cancer is Wrong?

Mar 18

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Advice to the Living from People Who are Dying

What they regret most (it’s not what you think) and what they truly value, now that nothing else matters

Jan 26

a butterfly being released from someone’s hand

Jan 26

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The 28 Best Things to Eat, According to 10 Nutrition Experts

I asked registered dietitians and other nutrition specialists what they’d eat if they had to choose only a few foods. Here are their…

Oct 1, 2024

The 28 Best Things to Eat, According to 10 Nutrition Experts

Oct 1, 2024

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Productivity Peaks in a Goldilocks Zone Between Boredom and Burnout

A new electronic face tattoo measures mental effort to find the sweet spot where stuff gets done.

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Productivity Peaks in a Goldilocks Zone Between Boredom and Burnout

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Would You Choose Physician-Assisted Death? Should it Even be Legal?

Once called “assisted suicide,” medical aid in dying for terminally ill patients is gaining wider acceptance, but fierce criticism remains

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Would You Choose Physician-Assisted Death? Should it Even be Legal?

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The Fear and Hope of Constantly Outliving a Cancer Diagnosis

Life advice from a man who has been facing death for 20 years now

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The Fear and Hope of Constantly Outliving a Cancer Diagnosis

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Dementia Flows from Plumbing Problems in the Brain

How your head’s waste disposal system works, and how we might make it function better, according to new research

Jun 4

a sewer

Jun 4

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My Problems with the Man Hug

I wasn’t around when my best guy friends started hugging each other. I still struggle with the emotional and choreographic complexities of…

Jun 2

Two men doing a criss-cross hug

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American Innovation was Great While it Lasted

Trump’s purge of science, coupled with a fear campaign, will cripple medical, technological, scientific, military and economic advancements…

May 29

American Innovation was Great While it Lasted

May 29

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Editor of Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB

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