AWAKE Check

09/01/2026

09/01/2026

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25/12/2025

🎄 This Christmas Day, as Dads everywhere doze off on the sofa after too much turkey, we’re having a bit of fun with a parody tribute to Band Aid (no offense, Sir Bob Geldof!).

It’s all in good humour to raise awareness about how snoring might be more than just a festive nap-time joke. If you catch yourself or a loved one “doing the dad doze,” maybe it’s time for a quick AWAKE Check!

Just a light-hearted nudge from me to you. 😊

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(P.S. This video was AI-generated for a bit of festive fun!)

14/12/2025

Something new is coming tomorrow from AWAKE study

An AI-generated video series following a very ordinary situation - and where it quietly leads.

No lectures.
No product pushing.
Just a story that many people will recognise.

The first episode launches Monday.

If sleep has ever crept into moments where it really shouldn’t… this one’s worth following.

👉 Watch here from Monday
👉 You’ll need to see the whole series to understand where it’s going.

05/12/2025

Good morning! Except if you’re Cloudflare.

The AwakeCheck is down at present as the Cloudflare infrastructure is out across the United Kingdom. You may notice LinkedIn is down too.

Sigh. Apologies

08/11/2025

Yesterday's “5 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡…” conversation was with Dr Alexander Sweetman, a leading sleep researcher. Joining me was Dr Phyllis Murphie PhD from the AWAKE study research team.

We explored something that rarely reaches public awareness:
COMISA - where insomnia and obstructive sleep apnoea occur together.

COMISA is not rare. Research shows that when someone has OSA, 30–50% will also have clinically significant insomnia symptoms, and the coexistence of both conditions leads to worse daytime functioning and poorer treatment adherence compared with either condition alone.
Key evidence: Sweetman et al., Sleep Medicine Reviews (2021) and Sweetman et al., Sleep (2019).

This is one of the reasons why we are running AWAKE Check – a national study to understand how many people in the UK have symptoms consistent with insomnia, OSA risk, or both.

Free, Fast (just five minutes), Science-based, Confidential, Anonymous (unless you want your results emailed to you).

Take part here: awakecheck.co.uk

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲:
For anyone struggling with insomnia symptoms (lying in bed too long, or trying to sleep at the wrong time), Alex also shared Bedtime Window, a simple evidence-based tool to help identify your personal sleep opportunity based on circadian timing:
https://www.bedtimewindow.com/

Video below.

Research team:
Adrian Zacher
Dr Phyllis Murphie RN, PhD
Adam Pattison Rathbone
Wolfgang Jacquet
Alexander Sweetman
Adam Benjafield
Daniel Pérez-Chada

27/10/2025

𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 - 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.

When you can’t sleep, it’s rarely “just stress” or “getting older”. It’s often your biology trying to tell you something.

Yet millions of people in the UK still turn to over-the-counter (OTC) 'sleep aids' that don’t treat the cause - and risk masking serious sleep disorders. But that's a whole other can of worms...

AWAKE Check is a research project with the simple aim of understanding how common sleep issues are across the UK.

You get a simple indication of your risk of insomnia and sleep apnoea.

BUT IT IS NOT A DIAGNOSIS.

And we would urge you to take your sleep seriously. If you're concerned consult your GP or a sleep-trained pharmacist.

At AWAKE Check, we’ve brought together decades of sleep science into a free, evidence-based self-assessment tool that helps you understand why you might not be sleeping well - and when to speak to your GP.

Before you reach for a “night-time” remedy, take 5 minutes to check what’s really going on.

No gimmicks. No pills. Just science.

🧠 Read the new post: Eight proven, pill-free ways to improve sleep https://awakecheck.co.uk/2025/10/27/eight-evidence%e2%80%91based-ways-to-sleep-better/

👉 Then take the free assessment: https://AwakeCheck.co.uk

Let’s change how we think about sleep - from symptom-chasing to understanding the cause.