For most of my twenties I ran on coffee. A lot of coffee. There were afternoons I could feel my own heart pounding and I told myself that was just what being productive felt like. It wasn’t. It was a body asking me to slow down, and I wasn’t listening.

The turning point was not dramatic. After the pandemic I noticed my body had quietly changed. More soreness from sitting at a desk all day. Back pain that hadn’t been there before. So I started moving again, mostly to feel less creaky, and somewhere in that process I lost around 13 kilos and got genuinely interested in how the body actually works. Sleep was the piece I understood least, so of course it became the piece I cared about most.

What I actually do

By day I run an online marketing agency. Before that I worked at a large German corporate group and at a few other agencies. That background matters here for one reason: I have watched, up close, how fast bad information travels online. It has made me allergic to health advice that sounds confident and cites nothing.

So I track my own sleep instead of guessing. I have worn a Whoop since January 2026, on the top subscription, and used a Fitbit before that. I look at sleep, recovery, and body temperature across my cycle, and I watch how my training affects all of it. I run small experiments on myself and read the data honestly. I am testing magnesium before bed. I have learned that even a single glass of wine shows up in the next morning’s numbers, every time. I can see the difference between a hard workout and an easy one in how I recover overnight.

None of this makes me an expert. It makes me a careful observer with a lot of notes.

How I research and vet my sources

This is the part I take seriously, so I want to be specific about it.

When I make a claim about sleep, I start at PubMed. If I can get the full text, I read it on PMC. I lean on peer-reviewed research and I read the abstracts closely, sometimes using AI to help me pull out the key points, but the source is always a real study, not a summary of a summary.

What I will not do is repeat something I found on a random lifestyle site because it sounded good. If a source turns out to be weak, or I cannot properly verify a claim, I do one of two things. I soften the language so I am not promising more than the evidence supports, or I cut the claim entirely. And when I do use a source that has real limitations, I say so in the post rather than hiding it. You deserve to know how solid the ground is under each thing I tell you.

I get things wrong sometimes. When I do, I fix them.

What you can expect here

Driftly is small and slow on purpose. You will not find hustle-culture advice, 5am cold-plunge dares, or promises that one supplement will change your life by Friday. I am the wrong blog for that.

What you will find is honest writing about better sleep, steadier energy, and a calmer mind. Written like a friend who reads the studies so you don’t have to, and who will happily admit when the studies don’t agree. Sleep Better. Live Better. That’s the whole idea, and it takes longer than a weekend.

A quick, important note

Everything here is for general information only. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for talking to a qualified healthcare professional about your own health. If something is genuinely wrong with your sleep, please see a doctor. I mean that.

If you want to say hello, disagree with me, or tell me what’s keeping you up, I’d love to hear from you at driftlyblog@gmail.com.

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