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Six and a half hours. That’s what the average American manages to sleep each night. Doctors recommend seven to nine. Do the math, and you’re looking at an 18% deficit—consistently shorting your body on one of its most fundamental needs. Eighteen percent might not sound catastrophic, but compound that shortage night after night, week…
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You walk into the kitchen and stop. Why did you come here? The information was in your brain just seconds ago, but now it’s gone, slipped through your mental fingers like water. Later, you’re introducing someone and their name—a name you definitely know—vanishes mid-sentence. These aren’t signs you’re losing your mind. They’re signals that…
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Your eyes hurt. Not dramatically—just that low-grade ache that’s become so familiar you barely notice it anymore. By mid-afternoon, reading feels harder. Your focus keeps drifting. That mental sharpness you had this morning? It’s been replaced by a foggy sensation that no amount of coffee seems to fix. You blame tiredness, but something else…
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You’re staring at your to-do list, and it might as well be written in ancient Greek. Fifty browser tabs are open. Your phone keeps pinging. Somewhere in the back of your mind, you know there’s something important you’re forgetting, but you can’t quite grasp what it is. Welcome to the modern epidemic of cognitive…