Pain, Inflammation, and Sleep in Older Adults: Getting Comfortable
When pain follows you into the night, sleep becomes light, fragmented, and unrefreshing. By morning, everything hurts more, attention wobbles, and even small tasks...
Restless Legs and Periodic Limb Movements: A Guide for Aging Sleep
Restless legs and night-time leg kicking can quietly hollow out your sleep. You may spend hours with a deep itch or pull in the...
Sauna, Cold, and Contrast: Recovery Routines for Sleep and Longevity
A well-designed heat and cold routine can relax a tense nervous system, deepen sleep, and nudge heart rate variability (HRV) in the right direction....
Shift Work, Jet Lag, and Social Jet Lag: Longevity Strategies
Circadian disruption is common, costly, and fixable. Whether you work rotating nights, fly across time zones, or simply drift late on weekends, misaligned sleep...
Sleep Across the Decades: A Healthy Aging Checklist by Age
Sleep changes as we age, but the goal stays the same: steady energy, clear thinking, and recovery that supports a long, healthy life. This...
Sleep Aids in Aging: Antihistamines, Z-drugs, and Safer Alternatives
A good night’s sleep should support your days, not make them foggier or riskier. Yet many older adults reach for quick fixes—over the counter...
Sleep and Brain Aging: Glymphatic Clearance, Memory, and Risk Reduction
The way you sleep today is shaping how your brain clears waste, stores memories, and resists age-related decline tomorrow. Deep, consolidated sleep appears to...
Sleep Apnea and Longevity: Signs, Testing, and Treatment Basics
Sleep apnea is more than loud snoring. When breathing stalls during sleep, oxygen dips and the body surges with stress signals. Over months and...
Sleep Duration and Longevity: How Much Sleep Adults Actually Need
How many hours should you sleep to protect healthspan—not just today’s energy, but decades of cognitive and cardiovascular resilience? Most adults do best near...
Sleep Hygiene for Healthy Aging: Bedroom, Temperature, and Noise
Sleep that is deep, continuous, and predictable is one of the most powerful levers for healthy aging. Yet the basics—light at the right times,...
Sleep Quality and Aging: Deep Sleep, REM, and Recovery Targets
Aging changes the scaffolding of sleep—its timing, depth, and the way your brain and body use the night to repair. Many people notice lighter,...
Snoring Without Apnea in Aging: Causes, Risks, and Fixes
Snoring without obstructive sleep apnea is common in midlife and later life. It often worsens with nasal congestion, lower muscle tone during sleep, or...
Social Connection, Loneliness, and Sleep: Protecting Healthspan
Loneliness is not just a feeling—it is a whole-body stressor that reshapes sleep, mood, and recovery. As social rhythms fray in midlife and later...
Stress Resilience for Longevity: From Rumination to Recovery
Stress touches every system we care about for long life—sleep, cardiovascular health, cognition, and emotional balance. What steals years is not a single hard...
Wearables and Sleep in Aging: What to Track and What to Ignore
Wearables promise clarity about the one-third of life we spend asleep. In midlife and older adulthood, they can flag patterns you feel but cannot...
Alcohol and Longevity: What New Evidence Means for Your Plate
Alcohol is woven into social life, but what it means for long life is changing. Over the last few years, large analyses have corrected...