Mairav Cohen-Zion, PhD—Dayzz—A Digital, Personalized Sleep Training Program

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sleep: we all know we need it, but many of us don't realize how badly. Missing just a night or two of quality sleep can increase our susceptibility to the common cold, and chronic sleep loss can lead to much more serious conditions. With 60-70% of the global population failing to get the right amount of sleep, sleep deprivation is now considered an epidemic—one that's affecting people across the age spectrum. However, seeking the right type of treatment is expensive, time-consuming, and often hard to come by.

Dayzz is a mobile app that aims to tackle this problem head-on by providing individuals with personalized sleep training programs while collecting data that will ultimately contribute to a greater understanding of the myriad sleep disorders affecting people.

Mairav Cohen is a clinical psychologist and the chief science officer at Dayzz, and she joins the podcast today to discuss a variety of interesting issues on the topic of sleep, such as how to know what the "right" amount of sleep is for you, how exactly the Dayzz app gathers information from its users, whether or not there are health benefits to being a "night owl" versus a "lark," the impact of cortisol and melatonin on sleep, and what's in store for Dayzz. Press play for more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.
0:13.0	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
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0:21.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech and Future Tech Health
0:31.1	podcasts. I have Dr Myra of Cohen Zion.
0:35.0	She's a PhD in Clinical Psychology.
0:37.0	She's the chief science officer at Days,
0:39.8	the website is Da YZZ.
0:41.9	And the website is Da YZZY-Z-Z-D-Z-D-Z-D-Z-D-G-D-E-T-E-T-E-E-S-S-E-S-S-T and we're going to be talking about sleep, but we're not going to put people to sleep, so it'll be really interesting. So, Myra-Vay-E-S-E-S-S-S-S- I'm good if I haven't and the whole day is difficult so what we're talking about super
0:58.1	important and it affects I would I don't know I would bet like a billion people at least if you averages out on a daily basis maybe more who knows what do you think?
1:06.0	I think sleep pretty much affects everyone whether you sleep well you sleep poorly we all need sleep to first of all to survive human beings in sleep but also almost for every daily
1:17.3	function from our health to our mind to our performance, you know, it's a requirement.
1:26.0	What if, you know, there's 7.5 billion people in the world, what's your estimate if people
1:32.4	have a bad night sleep on average you know I don't let's say once a
1:36.9	week that means you know over a billion people have sleep problems if you look at
1:41.0	you know every night but what do you know the numbers?
1:44.1	Do you know like what percentage of people on average
1:46.4	have problems with their sleep and how often?
1:49.0	Well, the range is varied.
1:51.2	They also vary by country. and we can separate it by people who suffer from sleep loss, so they don't actually have a sleep problem.
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