Clinical Team

Contributed by Natasha Ragland, MS Every serious athlete knows their sport changes their body. What’s less understood is how different sports change the way they sleep, not just how long, but how deeply, how efficiently, and how well the body recovers between training sessions. Most research on elite athletes and sleep relies on small lab […]

Contributed by Elias Malek, PhD The best time to exercise for sleep is whenever you’ll actually do it. Consistency matters more than timing. Eight Sleep’s mission is to fuel human performance through optimal sleep – but it goes beyond just sleep. Our Performance Windows feature is a good example: it recommends a daily workout window […]

Contributed by Emma Tracy Most people treat sleep as something to squeeze in around everything else. You stay up late, wake up early, and tell yourself you’ll catch up on the weekend. But sleep isn’t a flexible resource, it’s a biological necessity. The gap between how much sleep you need and how much you actually […]