Lee Akay
In Sleep

Looking for Answers at 3 AM

Person awake in bed at 3 AM looking toward a bedside clock while wondering why they keep waking during the night.

Why similar sleep problems can have very different biological causes? If you’ve ever found yourself awake at 3 AM wondering why it keeps happening, you’re not alone. Sleep has become one of the fastest-evolving areas of health research.  Researchers now describe different chronotypes, sleep profiles, and sleep patterns that help explain why people experience sleep differently. Are you a morning…

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Fitgenetix
In Sleep

Sleep Is Not Rest. It’s Repair.

Person sleeping while biological repair processes are illustrated through subtle brain and metabolic activity overlays.

Fitgenetix | Sleep For most of modern history, sleep was treated as downtime. Your body ran out of energy, so it shut down for a few hours, and then you got back to it. That was the working theory for decades, and it shaped how we talked about sleep, how doctors thought about sleep, and how seriously anyone took it…

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