Health for Life
Your Health. Your Questions. Answers You Can Understand.
Welcome to Health for Life, the TotalWellCoach blog. Explore evidence-informed articles, practical ideas, and clear-eyed perspectives on prevention, public health, healthy aging, nutrition, fatigue, sleep, metabolic health, emotional well-being, supplements, and understanding your health.
Written by Joyce Strong, RN, BSN, to help you make sense of health information, ask better questions, and take a more confident role in your own care.
Why Am I So Tired All the Time — Even When I Sleep Enough?
Still exhausted despite getting enough sleep? Explore common contributors to persistent fatigue, including stress, sleep quality, metabolism, nutrient status and mitochondrial health.
You Cannot Outrun Sleep Debt
We treat sleep as though we can borrow from it indefinitely. But the body keeps its own accounting. Chronic sleep loss can affect metabolism, cardiovascular health, cognition and recovery, and some of what we accept as “getting older” may actually be made worse by inadequate sleep.