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Sleep as the Diagnostic Window
The underused half of the sleep story: an early warning system, not just a performance lever.
How it works
- 1High-quality sleep drives performance, disease risk, and longevity, the well-known half.
- 2The underused half: sleep is the cleanest eight-hour window into underlying health, before symptoms surface.
- 3Company precedent, per Colin: early work predicting acute hospitalizations in congestive heart failure and acute events in COPD.
- 4Independent precedent: SleepFM at Stanford, one night of lab data forecasting risk across 130 conditions.
Hear it on the podcast
Chronic Insomnia: Almost None Get Treated — Colin Lawlor on the Sleep Data GapListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Consistency-First Sleep StackColin's personal protocol, ranked by what he actually believes moves the needle.The Light Sandwich (Jet Lag Protocol)Colin's own travel routine for resetting the clock across time zones.The Gold Standard Normalization LayerHow Sleep.ai turns four different wearable answers into one comparable number.All Data, No ActionColin's diagnosis of the entire wearables category.Two-Lane MonetizationHow a sleep data company actually makes money.
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