The food we eat provides our brain with the nutrients and energy that it requires to stay healthy, be emotionally resilient and have clear mental focus. Often when we talk about a “healthy” diet, we focus on the levels of fat or carbohydrates (i.e. sugar) in the foods...

Thinking Whilst Sleeping It’s that familiar feeling. You have been working on finding a solution all day. Trying to get to the root of the problem to no avail. Still stuck on one last elusive piece of the puzzle. So you give up, go to sleep and hope for better luck in...

If there is one thing that we are all certain of in 2018 it is that exercise is good for us. Time and time again we are told about the benefit of exercise for our health. That it helps to protect against an ever-growing list of life-threatening diseases. And reminded...

You are what you eat. It’s an age old saying that we hear time and time again. How our personal dietary choices affect our health. Our heart. Our waistline. But let’s move slightly upwards in our anatomy for a moment. And instead focus on those precious three pounds...

It never fails. You’re out of town at a conference or a corporate meeting and must give a presentation on an opening day. But you’re not worried. You created stellar audio-visual materials. You’ve practised your speech until you have it timed down to the second. Your...

In part 1, we discussed the development of a perceived correlation between reduced sleep and success, or at least increased productivity. Stories abound of people we regard as geniuses sleeping very little. These stories then distorted themselves into the belief that...

In his excellent 2013 talk, Why Do We Sleep?, neuroscientist Russell Foster discusses many of the points we will mention here. But he starts by saying that the average person, if they live to 90, will be asleep for 36% of their life, or 32 years in total. That would...