Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. Welcome to this app insider interview with Dan party from Dan's

plan. If you deal with sleep issues or insomnia or you want to track your sleep or just your

your body and your life and your health in general, Dan is chock full of good information.

You're going to dig this episode. So sit back or keep on running, biking, whatever it

is that you're doing and listen in.

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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and with me on the call today is a guy named Dan party from

Dan's plan.com and Dan's founder of Dan's plan.com and he will be able to tell you a little

bit more about what they do, but basically they're an online wellness and technology company

that promotes optimal health. Dan has done a ton of stuff before he got involved with Dan's plan.

He's performed scientific research on diet, exercise, cancer. He conducts research today still

in sleep, neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. I know he's been a Stanford University and also

the University of Leiden and he's spoken all over the world to physicians, to academic audiences,

he's been involved with the ERSA or the IISRA. What is IISRA by the way Dan?

It's a very long-winded name but it's the investigator-initiated sponsored research association.

So it's a specific type of research in the pharmaceutical industry that allows academics

to submit research grant ideas to funding agencies like pharmaceutical companies and then the

pharmaceutical company will review that and then can provide an unrestricted grant for the

academics to do their own independent research. It's actually a really good program and

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