Current news about chronobiology, my projects and lectures.
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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Diet has an influence on sleep quality. Not all sleep is the same and should be considered as individually as people’s shoe or body size. Every person has their own genetically determined chronotype. The chronotype shows when your genetic sleep time is and when you wake up. You can find…
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Sleep problems – A fatal side effect of digitalization? “Sleep problems can be triggered by occupational and private stress as well as, in women, menopause.” This is a quote from a recent report on the growing sleep problem by BARMER [1]https://www.barmer.de/presse/presseinformationen/pressearchiv/barmer-analyse-schlafstoerungen-nehmen-weiter-zu–1243652. Well … professional and private stress, that sounds very…
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