How Caffeine Reduces Sleep Inertia
Learn how caffeine counters sleep inertia, enhancing alertness and productivity with timely consumption and innovative delayed-release options.
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How Circadian Rhythms Affect Cognitive Performance
Learn how aligning tasks with your body's natural rhythms can enhance cognitive performance, focus, and productivity throughout the day.
How Caffeine Timing Affects Sleep and Wake Cycles
Learn how caffeine timing impacts sleep quality and wake cycles, and discover tips for optimizing your intake for better health.
Cortisol Awakening Response: What Science Says
Learn how the Cortisol Awakening Response influences your energy, mood, and stress management, and discover strategies to optimize it.
Wake-Up Pills and Circadian Rhythm Hacks
Learn how delayed-release caffeine can help you wake up feeling refreshed, combat morning grogginess, and sync with your natural rhythms.
Bedtime Routines for an Energized Morning
Establish a pre-sleep routine to improve sleep quality and wake up energized with practical tips and insights.
FAQ: Common Questions About Delayed-Release Supplements
Learn how delayed-release supplements enhance nutrient absorption by targeting the intestines, offering benefits for energy, sleep, and digestive health.
Delayed-Release Caffeine vs Traditional Coffee: Key Differences
Explore the differences between delayed-release caffeine and traditional coffee, and discover which option suits your energy needs best.
How To Wake Up at 6 A.M. Every Day
Learn effective strategies to wake up at 6 A.M. consistently, boost productivity, and enhance your morning routine for a successful day.
7 Natural Ways to Wake Up Energized Without an Alarm
Explore natural strategies to wake up energized without an alarm, including sunlight, hydration, and optimizing your bedroom environment.
Morning Grogginess: Causes and Science-Backed Solutions
Explore causes of morning grogginess and discover science-backed strategies to enhance your wakefulness and energy levels.
Sleep Inertia: How to Combat Morning Grogginess
Sleep inertia is the groggy feeling when you wake up. Here's how you can get ahead of that feeling.
Biological rhythms
Why the Best Time to Drink Coffee Is Before You Wake Up
Why the recent trend of delaying your coffee is not quite right, and how Zest's delayed-release caffeine gets ahead of the curve
Sleep health
Why Do We Have Daylight Saving (*not Savings) Time?
7 in 10 Americans hate resetting their clocks twice a year. So how did this unpopular tradition come about?
Protocol guides
Protocol: Consistent Morning wake time and routine
Nutrition
Nutrients To Help Promote Sleep
Check out these 6 nutrients that support sleep-inducing hormones and improve metabolic health to give you the best zzzzzz's
Physical recovery
Top Advice for Athletes From Our Professional Sleep Coaches
Here’s the Zest sleep expert team's recommended game plan when they work with professional athletes.
Nutrition
Stay Hydrated, Sleep Better!
Water is essential for the human body and staying properly hydrated is important for you to function at optimal levels, and this includes optimal sleep! Dehydration can cause you to feel sluggish...
Nutrition
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting has been shown to positively impact memory, mood, immunity, heart health, athletic performance, recovery, and you guessed it SLEEP!
Nutrition
Sugar & Sleep: 5 ways they interact
Sugar and sleep have a multi-dimensional relationship that bears enough weight to have its own article. It affects our stress hormones, sex hormones, and inflammation which all relate to sleep.
Sleep 101
Your Circadian Clock
You can think of your circadian clock as the conductor of an orchestra, with the instruments being different types of bodily systems. Each part of the orchestra functions independently, but we feel best when they are in sync.
Sleep 101
Why do I have trouble sleeping?
These are changes to behavior or thought patterns that accidentally make the insomnia continue beyond the initial stressor— or the "glue" that keeps the poor sleep patterns together.
Cognitive performance
5 Ways to Optimize Your Coffee Nap
Drinking coffee before a short nap has been shown to increase energy levels and productivity better than doing either of those things on their own. These 5 tips will help you maximize those benefits.
Sleep health
How does Alcohol Impact Your Sleep?
Alcohol has a sedative effect that someone might mistake as relaxing or helpful with sleep, but from a physiological perspective that is not the case.