Articles
Neuroplasticity and Sleep: How Rest Supports Learning and Growth
The Consequence of Daylight Savings
Chronological Anxiety
There are a lot of things we do in a day that are anxiety inducing and if we're to achieve balance with our nervous systems, minimise stress and improve our sleep there are a multitude of things we need to address differently.
The Sleep Cycle: Stages, Recovery, and the Impact of Caffeine
The Science Behind Combining Caffeine with Theanine
Caffeine and theanine are compounds found in tea but have very different effects on our brains. Caffeine is a well-known stimulant that increases alertness and reduces fatigue, while theanine is an amino acid that promotes relaxation without sedation.
Do You Compromise Sleep?
What's your biggest problem as a high performer?
The answer we most commonly hear is sleep.
Always disregarded, always compromised, rarely considered.
What are you doing to manage your sleep-wake cycle?
Professional Football and Chronobiology
In a recent Podcast, HMN24 Co-Founder Phil Learney was asked about the implications of sleep-wake disruption on professional footballers and what an adjusted schedule may look like and how HMN24 products would be integrated into it.
Insulin Sensitivity and The Sleep-Wake Cycle
Caffeine Needs Rules
Remember that your ‘need’ for caffeine, a stimulant, is mainly driven by your ‘need’ for sleep.
Also, your ‘need’ to use a depressant such as alcohol before bed is often driven by the overuse of the aforementioned stimulant.
What We Eat and The Sleep-Wake Cycle
The Human Grand Complication
Our body is the grandest of complications.
Every cell has its own mechanism. A timer if you will that is set to start at a prompt, initiate a series of actions and assuming the prompt remains constant repeat.