Quick Takeaways ✔ Your overall daily eating pattern matters more than any single “sleep food” ✔ Kiwi and tart cherry are among the few foods with actual human sleep studies behind them ✔ Heavy, late, or highly processed meals are consistently linked to worse sleep ✔ Cutting back on caffeine and alcohol has the strongest … Read more
When the 3am wake-ups started, I assumed it was just perimenopause doing what perimenopause does. What surprised me was that running — something I’d started years earlier for a completely different reason — seemed to make a real difference. I’d picked up running just to build some basic stamina. I’d always thought of myself as … Read more
Magnesium: Reading the Label Correctly Magnesium labels are a little confusing, mostly because two different numbers get mixed up: the total compound (raw material) weight, and the elemental magnesium that actually ends up in your body. Elemental Magnesium vs. Compound Weight A capsule can say “Magnesium Glycinate 1000mg,” but that doesn’t mean you’re getting 1000mg … Read more
Through my thirties, I could fall asleep the second my head hit the pillow. Then I turned 47, and almost every night, I started waking up around 3AM. No obvious reason. No noise. Just — awake. At first I blamed stress. Work had been chaotic, so it made sense. But weeks passed, and the pattern … Read more
There was a stretch of time when I started waking up at almost exactly 3 a.m. I used to fall asleep and stay asleep until morning without thinking about it. Lately, I lie there for what feels like forever before I drift off again, and the days after are foggy and heavy in a way … Read more
I’ve been running consistently for five years. An easy 5K most days, 10K on weekends. I’m not chasing pace or distance — I just genuinely like how it feels to run. For most of that time, my knees and joints never really bothered me. But recently, I started noticing a subtle ache in my ankles … Read more
It Started Right After I Turned 47 Not long after my 47th birthday, I started waking up at almost exactly 3 a.m. every night. At first I brushed it off. But the next-day fatigue kept piling up, and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. When something’s off with my body, I tend to go down a … Read more
Somewhere after forty, my body started feeling different. At first I just chalked it up to being tired. But then the sleepless nights piled up, I found myself snapping over nothing, hot flashes came out of nowhere, and my joints ached in a way they never had after a workout. On their own, none of … Read more