How to Personalize Melatonin Use for Better Sleep (Sleep Problems ≠ Melatonin Problems) We have looked at why so many adults wake after 5-6 hours even when sleep hygiene is solid. Melatonin often enters that conversation as an easy next step—but it infrequently solves the problem outright. Its effects depend on timing, metabolism, and whether […]
Treating vs Solving Sleep Problems: What Matters Most Last time, we explored poor sleep as a symptom—a signal pointing to underlying issues rather than the source problem itself. We used back pain as our comparison: the pain itself tells us something needs attention, but managing the pain doesn’t rebuild the structural support your spine requires
Poor Sleep Is a Symptom: Why one solution doesn’t fit all sleep issues A few days ago, I invited you to consider a different perspective on sleep. The idea is this is: Poor sleep is not the problem you need to solve. Poor sleep is a symptom. Today, I want to expand on that idea
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Sleep Is Hard: Why Even Healthy Adults Struggle Here’s the elephant in the room: sleep is hard. Unlike exercise or nutrition, we can’t just decide to be good at sleep. We can control what we eat and when we move, but we can’t force ourselves to sleep. This is why one of the most common
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Personalized Sleep Recovery: Poor sleep is not the problem (here’s why that matters) Most people are stuck as Person A. My goal is to get you to Person B: Person A: “I do everything right for sleep—no caffeine after 11, dark room, blue-light blockers, magnesium, breathwork, all of it. It’s helped somewhat… or a little…
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Preventive Health: You’re the only one who lives in your body 24/7. Here’s why that matters more than any doctor visit. More Americans now work in health care than any other sector—so why are outcomes still getting worse? In the last year alone, nearly 1/3 of all new jobs in the U.S. came from one
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Order of Operations for Longevity: The 3 Stages of Longevity To Fix in Order—Or You’ll Stay Exhausted and Stuck Have you ever tried a longevity intervention that worked for others—but not for you? Maybe you cut caffeine, but your sleep didn’t improve. You took magnesium for better sleep, but you’re still waking up at 3
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Is Seafood Still Healthy in 2025? What Longevity Science Reveals One of the more controversial stances I’ve taken in the longevity world is this: I haven’t consumed anything from the ocean or freshwater sources in ~6 years. And it’s one of the decisions I believe is adding years to my life — despite what many
Why Sleep Tips Don’t Work: The Biochemical Foundation Behind Restful Sleep Here’s an overlooked reason sleep routines stop working or don’t work at all (& what you can do about it): ➤ A reader recently asked me this question, and it echoes what I hear from so many of you who feel you’ve already tried
Should You Supplement Vitamin D Regardless of Diet? A Newly Published Case Report (September 2025) Of Acute Kidney Failure Shows Why You Shouldn’t: Vitamin D Supplementation Risks A middle-aged man, previously healthy, presented at the hospital with acute kidney failure after 6 months of vitamin D supplementation. His daily dose: ~4,800 IU, purchased online and
