Blog - sleep

Cortisol has become the culprit for everything: the belly, the puffy face, the five o'clock slump and the broken nights. And with the culprit came the remedy: ashwagandha, the ayurvedic root that now takes up half a shelf of supplements in any shop in Europe and turns up in almost every wellness vid..

In September, sleep goes off track. The holidays end, the usual schedule returns, it gets dark earlier and the body takes a few days to reset its clock. It is the time of year when most people buy melatonin, and also when most people buy it badly: the 10-milligram bottle, taken at any old time, in t..

There are eight jars of magnesium on the shelf and none of them explains the difference. Bisglycinate, citrate, threonate, carbonate, oxide. Prices run from eight to fifty-five euros and every label promises the same three things: energy, rest, muscle. The difference is real, but it isn't where the..