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. …

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…