080: Dr. Azure Grant, Physiology & Biological Rhythms Researcher: New Crescent App Helps You Optimize Your Sleep (Plus Learn How Your Menstrual Cycle Impacts Your Sleep!)

Dr. Azure Grant joins the podcast to discuss how our bodily rhythms relate to our sleep and overall health. Learn how you can live in alignment with different bodily rhythms as well as seasonal rhythms. Learn the benefits of self-tracking and why you may choose to work with a professional. Crescent Health has wearable data trackers that can help you become aware of your sleep quality and improve your sleep. Try them with the promo code listed below! GUEST BIO: Dr. Azure Grant is a researcher at the intersection of metabolic and hormonal health, and biological rhythms. She studies how peripheral timeseries can be used to predict discrete health events. Her graduate work at UC Berkeley mapped autonomic predictors of reproductive development and metabolic disruption from adolescence, to adulthood, to pregnancy; and used these findings to co-develop tools for real-world reproductive health monitoring. After graduation, Azure began directing fertility research at Prima-Temp recently joined the Crescent Health team as a "Scientist-in-Residence". Her goal in each project is to create collaboration among academic, non-profit, and private partners to promote research in metabolic & women's health.

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The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast, exists to transform the conversation around sleep on the planet! Each episode is a conversation with industry leaders designed to deliver practical takeaways to improve your sleep. The intention is to shift the paradigm of wellness to make SLEEP the #1 focus in our journey towards great health. . For years, my sleep was a problem in my life. When I went through my own challenging period of insomnia while traveling internationally, I felt like there was nowhere to turn. After obsessively learning all that I could about chronobiology and circadian rhythms — what I learned changed my life and I’m committed to sharing what I've learned (and continue to learn!). . Creator Bio: Mollie Eastman (McGlocklin) is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, and the host of The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast. Sleep Is A Skill is a company that optimizes people’s sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. After navigating insomnia while traveling internationally, she created what she couldn’t find - a place to go to learn the skill set of sleep. With a background in behavioral change from The Nonverbal Group, she became fascinated with chronobiology and its practical application to sleep and our overall experience of life. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without, she’s now dedicated her life to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep. In the spirit of that goal, she has created the #2 sleep podcast, written a popular weekly sleep newsletter for over four years, partnered with luxury hotels & lifestyle brands, and has appeared on over 150 podcasts.