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Dead tired in the evening, wide awake in bed, wiped out in the morning? What the daily curves of cortisol and melatonin look like, what shifts them and how to interpret individual values with care.

You can't get going in the morning but are wide awake in the evening – or the other way round? What a chronotype is, how you can assess yours and what shifts your rhythm without you noticing.

Night shifts, early shifts or simply the alarm at six: how work shifts your internal clock, what shift work demonstrably changes, what social jetlag means and what you can try.

Dead tired, but your mind is racing and your heart is pounding: why stress keeps the body in alarm mode at night, what other causes can lie behind inner restlessness and when you should see a doctor.

Full after dinner and yet you still end up at the sweet cupboard? What sleep, stress, meals and your cycle have to do with cravings, and what is merely speculation.

You take magnesium, and yet a calf cramp still jolts you out of sleep at night? What research says about magnesium, which other causes are possible and when you should have it checked by a doctor.

Your head feels as if it is full of cotton wool and you just cannot concentrate? Brain fog has many possible causes – from sleep and stress to iron deficiency. What can be behind it and what can be measured.

Wide awake at 3am every night? What happens in your body in the second half of the night, what role stress, cortisol and alcohol play, and how you can get to the bottom of your sleep rhythm.

Tryptophan is more than just a protein building block – it's the raw material for serotonin and melatonin, which are essential for a good mood and restful sleep. Learn why this lab value is so important, what symptoms indicate an imbalance, and how diet, lifestyle, and modern laboratory diagnostics (e.g., at ORY Berlin) can help.