Priya Anand
Executive Health Writer
Busy professionals and executives optimizing energy, sleep and focus
Priya Anand writes executive health — the highest-leverage, lowest-time interventions for sleep, stress, energy and focus. Built for readers who want the bottom line first and the protocol they can actually keep.
Latest articles
Wearables Grow Up: From Heart Failure Monitoring to Continuous Kidney and Breath Tracking
Remote and wearable monitoring is crossing from consumer gadget to clinically validated tool—with fresh evidence in heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and respiratory tracking.
Hidden Hearing Loss: Brain Signals Reveal Spatial-Sound Decline Before the Audiogram Does
Early research suggests event-related potentials can flag a quiet form of auditory aging that standard hearing tests miss — and that may matter for focus, conversation, and long-term cognitive health.
Lasers, Light, and Senescent Skin: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Premium energy-based devices promise to roll back skin aging. A new systematic review asks whether they truly act on the biology of senescence — or just polish the surface.
How Good Is Your Sleep Tracker, Really? Wearables Tested Head-to-Head in Older Adults
A new head-to-head validation of consumer sleep wearables and nearables shows where the devices earn their place on your nightstand — and where, especially after midlife, they quietly overreach.
The Mouth-Joint Axis: Why Your Dentist Visit Belongs on Your Pre-Surgery Checklist
A new retrospective study links poor preoperative oral hygiene to early wound infection after hip and knee replacement — making the dental chair an underweighted stop on the prehab calendar.
Plant-Forward, Periodically: A Metabolic Reset Hidden in Religious Fasting
A multi-omics study of Greek Orthodox practitioners suggests that cycling off animal products — even briefly — quietly rewires the blood chemistry linked to cardiometabolic risk.
Inside the Army's Bid to Put Whole-Person Health on a Single Dashboard
The US Army's new Holistic Health and Fitness Management System tries to unify sleep, nutrition, biometrics and mental health for hundreds of thousands of soldiers. It's the largest real-world test yet of population-scale optimization.
Sleep, Loneliness, and the Lifespan Connection
A new study of 2,297 adults suggests the variable your sleep tracker can't measure—how connected you feel—may be quietly shaping how you rest.
The Frailty Playbook: How Nutrition and Training Can Rewind Age-Related Decline
A 2025 review in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology argues frailty — unlike aging itself — is reversible. The two levers: personalized nutrition and structured exercise.
Rethinking the Annual Physical: What the Evidence Actually Supports
The yearly battery of labs and scans feels thorough — but a 2025 review argues indiscriminate testing can do more harm than good. Here's what targeted, evidence-based screening looks like for a busy adult.
Designing Fall Prevention That Sticks: Digital Coaching and the Neuromechanics of 'Timber Falls'
A randomized trial of a self-managed balance app and new neuromechanics research are reshaping how we think about preventing falls in older adults — and why some topple backward like felled trees.
Beyond the Treadmill ECG: Why Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Is the New Standard for Health-Optimizers
A 2025 review argues that AI-augmented CPET — measuring how your heart, lungs and metabolism work together — should replace the classic stress ECG as the default deep evaluation. Here is what that shift actually means for your calendar.