Burnout
Chronic work stress, exhaustion, and recovery.
Why AI Tools Can Make You More Tired, Not Less
The promise was a lighter workload. The observed pattern was task expansion, blurred role boundaries and cognitive load, mostly self-imposed.
Does Working From Home Affect Your Wellbeing?
The biggest remote-work study ever run found more isolation and distress. A month later another found remote workers had the highest wellbeing. Here is why both…
Can Changing What You Eat Actually Help Depression?
A striking result from a small trial, delivered alongside existing treatment, and a published challenge asking whether recruitment explains the effect size.
Do Multivitamins Do Anything for Energy or Stress?
The effects are small and real. The moderator finding underneath them says more about what people were eating than about what supplements do.
Does Exercise Actually Work as a Treatment for Depression?
The evidence is unusually large for a lifestyle intervention and its own authors rate their confidence in it as low. Both halves matter.
Could Low Vitamin D Explain Why You Are Always Tired?
A clean result from a small trial, and a search for its replication that came back empty. What the fatigue research has done since, and where…
Is “Cortisol Face” Real? What High Cortisol Actually Looks Like
Cortisol is real, moon face is real, and the connection the trend draws between a stressful week and a puffy face is not what either of…
Can a Sleep Tracker Make Your Sleep Worse?
Sleep clinicians started seeing patients who trusted their tracker over their own experience. The name they gave it, and why the data is weaker than it…
Do Omega-3 Supplements Actually Help You Think?
Contested findings at mostly low certainty, in populations aged 40 and over, measuring decline rather than the enhancement the bottle implies.
Does Screen Time Actually Make You Miserable?
The original said adult evidence was thin. It is not thin any more, and what filled the gap sits awkwardly against the number everyone quotes.
Does Answering Work Messages After Hours Actually Burn You Out?
A construct with a decade of research behind it, effect sizes one review calls meagre, and a mechanism that did not hold up in the authors’…
Can You Really “Regulate” Your Vagus Nerve?
The vagus nerve is real. The theory that turned it into a wellness category has been rejected by the scientists who study it, and its defenders…
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