73 | Sleep Score Labs: “Changing the World, by Changing the Way We Sleep”

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Have you ever thought about how many people are struggling with the same sleep issues as you? Many of us struggle with getting enough sleep. Even as the market continues to fill with everything from nose strips, to connected wearables and rings and even weighted blankets, yet we still somehow fail to find the right solutions for sleep. Why is that?

Colin Lawlor is the CEO of SleepScore Labs, a sleep technology organization located in Carlsbad California, with the mission of helping people achieve more full-filling lives and better long term help through their best sleep. In this episode Colin talks about the data trends around sleep that impact our health and wellness at the personal level, the basic components of how technology and sleep come together, all the way through to the future of sleep and how we can better live more productive and full filling lives as platforms for sleep emerge.

The SleepScore app is available for free, in both the App Store for Apple Devices and on Google Play for Android users.

Thank YOU for listening, and we hope you get good sleep tonight.

Navigate the Episode:

[9:02] Getting to know SleepScore Labs and what they do

[12:14] How to measure sleep to manage sleep problems

[17:17] Creating models, insights and personalized recommendations based on data

[19:07] How sleep impacts overall health

[22:45] Understanding sleep technologies and choosing what really works

[25:32] The verticals that influence your sleep

[28:26] Sleep improvements grounded on data and science

[29:46] Why sleep apnea leads to death

[31:39] Understanding the fundamentals of the human body affected by sleep

[40:59] How other industries are creating better ways to help improve sleep

[41:23] The organizations that Sleep Score Labs partners with

[45:18] How SleepScore Labs is bringing their expertise to consumers

[47:17] Choose companies that really care for your sleep

[52:54] Improving health and fitness through improving sleep

[60:17] The impact of alcohol in sleep

[01:02:41] Free app powered by SleepScore Labs

[01:11:10] Colin’s philosophy on better sleep and lifestyle

[01:15:02] The future of sleep and what to look out for from the SleepScore Labs

[01:19:48] Colin’s best advice for people struggling with sleep

Memorable Quotes:

[09:30] “Sleep is an activity we do every day, it's essential to every part of life. The challenge is that billions of people woke up this morning, tired all over the world, every time zone. There are millions of people waking up tired, and that has a huge impact on their lives, productivity, and long-term health. It's a huge issue.” -Colin Lawler

[13:40] “It's essential to be able to measure sleep because we cannot depend on humans' recall in order to understand what's really happening with sleep.” -Colin Lawler

[15:45] “There is no one single solution that actually improves everybody's sleep. The answer is highly personalized.” -Colin Lawler

[55:21] “We believe that sleep has been the missing ingredient of everything to do with health and wellness and health care. So we know that if you have your sleep under control, you will recover.” -Colin Lawler

Resources:

SleepScore Labs: https://www.sleepscore.com/

Download the SleepScore app: https://www.sleepscore.com/sleepscore-app/?rfr=ssl-improvemysleep-button

How Better Sleep May Just Save Your Life (podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-better-sleep-may-just-save-your-life-w-colin-lawlor/id1536378494?i=1000499007398

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Sleep and Sleep Disorders: https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data_statistics.html

Connect with our guests:

Colin Lawlor on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinjlawlor/

*The views and opinions expressed in this discussion are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the official position of their employer, Microsoft"

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