At first, it sounds alarming—and the headlines read accordingly: “Too much sleep can shorten your life.” Once again, a new study confirms the link between long sleep duration and an increased risk of mortality. But finally, something that has long been overdue in sleep and health research is happening: causality…
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What are credible sources? Anyone who works with science is used to citing sources. They are mandatory when it comes to writing serious articles, because anyone can make claims. Of course, this also applies to me and my topics of sleep and chronobiology. However, especially in recent years, when terms…
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The sun must go … Do you know solar geoengineering? You’ll find out what this has to do with chronobiology in a moment. But first, back to nature. Our natural world is a complex system that has been perfectly coordinated over millions of years, but is often simple in its…
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NoMedication Health Span – redefining health This discussion also appeared in issue 3/2025 of the magazine“Welt der Gesundheitversorgung“. LifeSpan, HealthSpan and NoMedication HealthSpan – Health does not manifest itself in years of life, but in healthy years of life. What constitutes healthy life years depends on how we define “health”.…
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The Resmed’s 2025 Global Sleep Survey is out and has drawn a remarkable conclusion. “t’s a paradox of modern life—sleep quality is falling short even as its value is being increasingly acknowledged.” This sentence in Resmed’s 2025 Global Sleep Survey was the one that concerned me personally the most. Although…
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