Plus: How skin cancer changed my views on tanning
| | Laura Powell first realised that she had a problem when she watched When Harry Met Sally for the third time. “Or more accurately”, as she writes: “the third time I attempted to watch When Harry Met Sally.”
The first time, with her boyfriend, she was asleep before the opening credits. The second? She hardly made it a few scenes in. This “warm, sluggish” feeling was familiar to her: for as long as she could remember, there were similar incidents. “I need 10 hours [of sleep], ideally 11,” she writes. “The same as a three-year-old. But I’m a 38-year-old woman: there are things to do.”
So begins Powell’s quest into finding out whether there is such a thing as a “sleepy gene”. Scientific research says there are a handful of people who are “short sleepers” – those who can get by on around four hours a night, no problem – but much less research exists into “long” ones. To find a cure, Powell flew to St Lucia. You can read her piece here.
In other health news, Lucia Ferrari’s piece this week might make you want to put on more SPF. Ferrari recounts how a bout of skin cancer changed her views on tanning forever – and why she now wears suncream every day.
Until next time,
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