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Women's night-time waking jumps sharply in midlife

A smartwatch study of 192,500 women across five countries found time spent awake after falling asleep rose 32% by the early sixties, a steeper climb than men saw.

Aug 6, 2026

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verdict

Melatonin: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Melatonin shifts the body clock rather than causing sleep, which is why it works well for jet lag and badly for ordinary insomnia. In adults it cuts time-to-sleep by about five minutes.

Aug 5, 2026

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verdict

Ashwagandha: uses, evidence, dosing and safety

Ashwagandha has real evidence for stress and sleep, thinner evidence for strength, and a liver problem that arrived in 2017. The list of people who should avoid it is unusually long, and now includes thyroid patients.

Aug 3, 2026

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News

Unsteady breathing in sleep tracked death risk

Across 43,611 overnight sleep studies, researchers writing in the journal SLEEP tested a measure of how steadily people breathe at night and found it tracked death risk in two hospital cohorts, though not in the community one.

Aug 3, 2026