Health and Brain Hacks

The Stop, Breathe and Be Technique for Stress Relief

Learn a 10-second breathing technique that stops stress spirals by activating your body’s natural calming system. You take 20,000 breaths…

Your friend texts you at 2 AM: “Can’t sleep. Feeling terrible again.” You want to help, but what do you…

We chase happiness in all the wrong places. Success, money, self-improvement, technology, supplements. You name it, we’ve tried it. But…

Article summary Regular sauna use delivers measurable health benefits, cutting your mortality and dementia risk. In the summer of 1995,…

Your grandmother swears by her daily crossword. Your neighbour posts Sudoku victories on Facebook. Yet mounting research shows these popular…

The Best Possible Self (BPS) visualization technique is a science-backed 20-minute exercise that trains your brain for optimism, with research…

In 2010, a hundred marketing experts gathered in Helsinki with an ambitious goal. How to turn their quiet, remote country…

Your brain is begging you to shut up. Not you, specifically. The noise around you. The podcasts, the music, the…

I once watched my grandmother solve the daily crossword puzzle every morning for fifteen years. Rain or shine, good health…

Scientists have long understood that smarter people tend to live longer. The question has always been: which parts of intelligence…