A survey by mattress-makers Amerisleep found that 67% of people get up between 4am-7am, with most of that group rising at 6am and harbouring the belief that you must be up by 7am to be considered an early bird.
Our natural circadian rhythms make it physiologically harder to wake feeling refreshed in winter, which can leave us in a haze of fatigue that’s hard to shake. Here are some of Verve’s favourite sleep saviours, from sleep support supplements to evening beauty routines and sleepwear.
I get it, I really do. It's not nice when it rears its head, but once we're over 40 years of age, diminishing oestrogen levels shift our body fat from the butt and thighs to the abdomen – that's just evolution.
“Topical treatments work to an extent but when you start deep diving into dermal nutrition everything starts improving remarkably!”
Kiwi writer and photographer Melanie Dower has been living in Helsinki with her husband Jonathan and son Miko since 2014. Verve caught up with her to find out about the things she most loves about life in the Finnish capital, and the impact of the pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine.
