If you want to have more energy, take control of your stress levels and consider what habits actually make you feel more invigorated.

If our culture of coffee, energy drinks and espresso martinis tells us anything, it’s that we’re all pretty tired these days.

And how could we not be? We live in a go, go, go society where everything and everyone is vying for our attention — our families, friends, work, the 24-hour news cycle and social media, just to name a few things. Modern society makes it easy, even normal, to feel depleted at all times, which makes it really hard to break the cycle of exhaustion.

But that doesn’t have to be your reality. There are habits and behaviors that can help you feel less exhausted. Below, doctors share what they are and how you can incorporate them into your everyday life:

1. Move every day.

You can’t expect to sit around all the time and have energy, said Dr. Chris Scuderi, a family medicine physician in Florida. If you want to feel more awake, you should prioritise movement of some sort, whether it’s walking, jogging, cycling, yoga, HIIT, Zumba or something else entirely.

“Movement is really big, it’s just great for the body,” Scuderi said. “Exercise moderately at least five days a week. I always try to encourage my patients to do something every day. Try not to have a zero day, even if it’s a 10-minute walk after dinner or just doing some stretching or some calisthenics — that daily movement is just so good for our bodies.”

Exercise is known to help you sleep better, too, which in turn will give you more energy.

“When you are exercising on a daily basis, you have less sleep latency, so you fall asleep more quickly, and I think you get to deep sleep in a much more rapid fashion, which is the restorative benefit of sleep that a lot of people who don’t exercise don’t really get to,” said Dr. Patrick Doherty, an assistant clinical professor of neurosurgery at Yale Medicine in Connecticut.

2. Eat food that fuels you.

There’s a time and place for all food (no, I will never give up pizza), but certain foods are known to be a drag on your energy levels.

The food we put into our bodies is what drives us, Doherty explained. This is why people fuel up with carbs........

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