Eat plants, try pilates and stay positive: how to keep your body younger than your years

Do blueberries make you live longer? Is pilates proper exercise? How do you avoid loneliness? Botox, yes or no? Here’s how to age better

The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong?

Eight hours a day is a myth. Embracing our individual sleeping patterns could be the key to a better night’s rest

Dream-enactment disorder rose up to fourfold during pandemic, study finds

Exclusive: Condition most prevalent among those who had Covid, raising possibility of link with Parkinson’s disease

Global heating is cutting sleep across the world, study finds

Data shows people finding it harder to sleep, especially women and older people, with serious health impacts

Insomniacs in England to be offered app treatment instead of sleeping pills

Sleepio was shown to be more effective at reducing insomnia than sleep hygiene and pills in data shown to Nice

‘My pain levels have completely dropped’: how medical marijuana changed my life

Andrea Wright, diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia, is now having a proper night’s sleep

Poor sleep may hinder attempts to maintain weight loss, study finds

Trial seems to add to body of evidence about health risks of not getting enough sleep or poor quality sleep

If you want to hit the sweet sleep spot, you’ve got to show it some respect

Ditch the phone, ignore the emails, don’t touch the biscuit tin … and settle down for the recommended seven hours of zzzzz

Seven hours’ sleep is ideal amount in middle to old age, study finds

Too much and too little sleep linked with worse cognitive performance and mental health

Can vodka, water and essential oils make an effective pillow spray?

With a third of us experiencing sleep problems of some sort, maybe this can help …