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How Healthy-Living Experts Do Evening Routines
Find ways to wind down from the day and optimize your nights in Part Three of our three-part series.
Bookends
The first and last moments of your day can steady or destabilize everything that comes in between. Are your mornings and nights propping you up, or tipping you over?

How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.

How Insomnia Leads to Weight Gain
Chronic stress that keeps you up at night can increase the production of fat cells.

9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.

How to Treat the Common Cold
Here are a few tips to nudge a cold out the door.

PUMPING IRONY: In the Dark About Sleeplessness
I may not be the best person to suggest that light pollution is keeping seniors awake.

5 Tips to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Establish better bedtime habits with these simple strategies.

Why Do I Feel Depressed and Fatigued When I Sleep Late?
It all depends on which stage of sleep you wake up in, says a sleep expert.

Better Sleep, Better Marriage?
How much you sleep could influence marital arguments, a recent study says.


PUMPING IRONY: Try Counting Sheep
Nearly half of the senior set isn’t getting enough sleep, but efforts to address the problem seem to be more entertaining than effective.

Do You Have a Circadian Rhythm More Suited to Mars?
A study finds a gene for being a late sleeper.

How to Use Lavender Oil
This popular essential oil can help boost your health and happiness.

Untangling Alzheimer’s
Breakthroughs in understanding dementia are leading to new healthcare approaches. Nutrition, lifestyle, and sleep may be the keys to prevention.

How to Measure Your Sleep Satisfaction
Calculate your sleep-related health risks by considering these six factors.

Are You Drunk — or Just Sleep Deprived?
Research shows that losing sleep slows your response speeds as much as if you'd had a couple cocktails.

Get in Sync: On Sleep and Health
Aligning your body's clocks is key to your wellness. Here's how to achieve optimum circadian health.


Sleep & Genes: Q&A With Jonathan Cedernaes, MD, PhD
A new study finds that one bad night’s sleep can harm your body’s metabolic processes. The study’s author explains how.

How Lack of Sleep Can Affect Your Genes
Researchers have determined that losing just one night of sleep can alter the genes that regulate your metabolism.