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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The 4 sleep types – which one is yours? Sleep types in our society 4 sleep types … no, I’m not talking about chronotypes, i.e. owl, lark, dove or even bear, wolf, dolphin and lion. The types of sleep I am referring to here also have nothing to do with…
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Breakfast: A dogma falls? Breakfast. Most of us have grown up with one sentence chiseled into our heads above the kitchen: “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Because it is manifested in classrooms, through discussions with parents and via health guides and, last but not least, supposedly…
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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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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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