There is so much to learn about how you can optimize your life to get the most out of your brain and body, it can be overwhelming. In this short Power of the Downstate primer, I’ll explain how focusing on your biorhythms as a general framework helps all the details…

During my one-month stint as a Children’s Hospital parent, I learned that hospitals and the entire approach of western medicine is in sleep denial. Here’s why that’s a problem and how we can reshape health and healing to abide by nature’s greatest doctor, sleep. I’m a cognitive neuroscientist in the…

A shorter version of this story was published in the San Diego Tribune on July 29, 2022 When I was a kid, I’d sit with my brother in the backseat as my parents listened to NPR on the radio every day; “Morning Edition” to school and work, and the “MacNeil…

Understanding your own energy depletion and restoration is how to truly optimize — The word hack is centuries old and has been used to mean a lot of things, none of them good. In the 1800s, a hack was a meager horse used to get stuff from here to there, not an animal that instilled pride in the ride. A more modern usage…