Category: Sleep

Sleep is undervalued in a world that hails ‘hustle culture’. When you’ve had a few late nights and feel more tired than usual, sleeping in on a Sunday sounds restorative, right? Yet, catching up on lost sleep may not be as simple as it seems. Let’s take a closer look at the truth of sleep…

It is a well-documented fact that cardiometabolic diseases and obesity are leading causes of death across the world. In fact, according to the World Health Organisation, at least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of being obese or overweight.

Sleep and metabolic health are deeply intertwined together. To understand how the different sleep stages affect your metabolic health, we must first understand the two important concepts – Metabolism and the Architecture of Sleep.

We’ve all had days when we’ve woken up after a night of inadequate sleep. There are numerous physiological processes that happen when we’re asleep.

We have all been there; trying hard to lose those extra pounds, and the scale just won’t budge, leaving us confused, frustrated and modifying our diet and workout plans with no results in sight. If you’re way too familiar with this

Wu-Wei. This Chinese phrase translates to “doing nothing”, most famously found in the famous Tao-te Ching, a philosophical and spiritual text written by Laozi, known to be the founder of Daoism, around 400 BC.

For many people, it almost feels like clockwork: you finish your lunch, and a few minutes later, you start to feel drowsy, your eyelids start drooping and you simply have to take a nap.

Sleep is amongst one of the most mystic physiological activities that’s out there. When we think about fitness, the first thing that comes to mind is how much we workout and what we eat

Revenge bedtime procrastination is real. It refers to the idea of people postponing the act of going to bed and shortchanging sleep to indulge in leisure activities (like binge-watching web series) they don’t have time for during the day.