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.