The Sleep Consultant

People trying to lose weight typically focus on two things: diet and exercise. They count calories, plan workouts, track macros, and white-knuckle through cravings — often while sleeping six hours a night and wondering why progress is so slow. The missing variable, hiding in plain sight, is sleep. The research on sleep and weight is striking and consistent: poor sleep makes ...

Napping has a reputation problem. To some people, naps are a sign of laziness or poor nighttime sleep. To others, they’re a performance superpower used by everyone from elite athletes to history’s most productive figures. The truth is that a nap can be either — a powerful restorative tool or a saboteur of your nighttime sleep — and which one it becomes depends almost entirel...

Shift work asks your body to do something it’s fundamentally not designed to do: be alert and functional during the biological night, and sleep during the biological day. Nurses, doctors, paramedics, police, firefighters, factory workers, truck drivers, security staff, and countless others keep society running around the clock — and pay a measurable biological price for it. ...

It’s 3 a.m. and you’re awake again, making the familiar trip to the bathroom. Maybe it happens once a night. Maybe two or three times. You’ve probably assumed it’s just a normal part of getting older, or that you drank too much water before bed, and you’ve accept...

For most of ADHD’s history as a recognized condition, sleep problems were treated as a side effect — maybe medication-induced insomnia, maybe stress from the chaos of unmanaged ADHD, maybe just an unrelated coexisting issue. The clinical assumption was that ADHD was about attention during waking hours; what happened at night was somebody else’s problem. Anyone with ADHD read...