#165 The Sleep Revolution: How Eight Sleep is Transforming Rest and Health with Alex Zatarain

Today on the show the brilliant Alex Zatarain (@alexzatarainj) is our guest, cofounder of Eight Sleep. She joins Oli to discuss all things sleep! Eight Sleep’s revolutionary Pod 5 uses a sensor-embedded mattress cover to track biometrics (including heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate and sleep stages) and then actively improve sleep by adjusting bed temperature in real time, waking users during lighter sleep, and optionally mitigating snoring via an adjustable base that elevates to open airways. Alex explains why temperature is a key sleep signal, how our modern indoor environments disrupt regulation, and how Eight Sleep's Autopilot mode uses algorithms and new AI capabilities to respond to, and predict, sleep needs using tags like alcohol, late meals or stress, alongside large-scale data. It's mind blowing stuff, and as we say all the time on the show - sleep is so important, and yet so often overlooked. So get ready to chuck out your old pillows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.