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Continue reading →: Exploring Sleep Inertia and the Biology of WakefulnessThere’s this weird stretch of time right after waking up where a person is technically awake but not really there yet. Eyes open, brain still somewhere else. Scientists call this sleep drunkenness or inertia, and honestly it’s one of those things that gets studied a lot but explained most of…
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Continue reading →: Why Placebo Effects Can Work Even When People KnowMedicine has a theory that still trips people over, even researchers who’ve been staring at the data for years. You give someone a sugar pill. Like literally a sugar pill and there’s nothing in it. And somehow they still get better. Not always, not dramatically but most of the time…
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Continue reading →: How Does Caffeine Affect Sleep and Alertness?Okay so I’ve been chewing on this for a few weeks now, mostly because I drink way too much coffee and then lie there at midnight wondering why my brain won’t switch off. Sleep and alertness are supposed to be opposite states, right, but caffeine tangles them together in a…
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Continue reading →: Mouth Taping for Sleep: Trend, Placebo, or Potential Risk?There’s a small strip of tape sitting on a lot of nightstands right now. Not medical tape exactly, though some brands try hard to look clinical. Just tape, meant to go over the lips before bed. Mouth taping for sleep has turned into one of those wellness habits that shows…
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Continue reading →: Crossing Time Zones? Here’s What Happens to Your BrainYou know that feeling where you get off a plane, and your body is just… confused? Like it doesn’t know if it should be hungry or sleepy or awake or dead. That’s basically what happens when you go crossing time zones. Your brain doesn’t just “adjust” the second you land.…

