A recent study has revealed that poor sleep in early middle age can lead to significant brain ageing. Researchers found that individuals with high levels of poor sleep habits had an average brain age of 2.6 years older than those with better sleep patterns. This finding is crucial as it highlights the connection between sleep […]
“Sleep Internship” at Wakefit is the dream job we all didn’t know we needed. It takes the famous book “Make money while you sleep” quite literally. This quirky program invites interns to snooze their way through 60 days, aiming to hit that golden 9-hour sleep goal, take power naps, and test out a brand-new Wakefit […]
Japan has developed standing sleep pods so employees can slip away and have a quick standing nap. Tokyo-based office furniture supplier Itoki collaborated with Hokkaido woodworking company, Koyoju Plywood Corporation, to create the ‘nap box’ or the Kamin box, to enable workers to have a mid-day nap. Itoki communications director Saeko Kawashima said the nap […]
We all know the feeling once we’ve woke up when we look at the mirror, and our face seems scarily different to when we went to sleep. Your eyes, the face looks puffy, skin is full of wrinkles and despite your night of rest, you look oddly tired. But why does this happen so regularly? […]
Having trouble sleeping at night? Here’s a simple hack that you can try, and it’s one that’s effortless. As per ‘Sleep Geek’ James Wilson, the key to sleeping quickly is making sure you’re relaxing for the hour or so before you hit the hay. Of course, we’ve all heard this one before, but he’s got […]
Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. A proverb we have heard for ages. Although we easily decipher the proverb, in the work-from-home scenario, no one has been following a healthy lifestyle pattern or this proverb in any way! Right! Yeah, I hit the bull’s eye there, did I […]
You’ve got to remember a name just before a company video call? Maybe you are about to play charades online with your husband’s entire family? Or are you worried about placing a colleague’s name on his face when you do go back to work in person? Then one day soon you may have a tool […]
Like several others, historian A. Roger Ekirch thought that sleep was a constant in our lives, eight hours of rest a night never really varied over time and place. But in the course of his research on the nocturnal life in preindustrial Europe and America, he found the first evidence that many humans used to […]
As a usual night owl surviving solely off the golden elixir known to mankind as coffee, I often find myself wide-eyed and jittery legged at what most people would consider unruly hours of the day – or more, the night. The very same people would take a glimpse at the drooping bags under my eyes […]
