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Does your sport change how you sleep? Here’s what Eight Sleep athlete data revealed
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 […]
May 23, 2026
New Pregnancy Mode: Personalized temperature support from early pregnancy through postpartum
Contributed by Sofie Jacobsen, M.S.; Megan Holm, M.S.; Breanne Wilhite, Ph.D.; Nicole Moyen, Ph.D. Pregnancy changes your body every week, but until now, your sleep environment stayed the same. Today, Eight Sleep is launching Pregnancy mode, a new feature available with Autopilot. Pregnancy mode automatically adjusts your Pod’s temperature from the first weeks of pregnancy […]
May 04, 2026
The best time to exercise for sleep? Whenever you’ll actually do it
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 […]
April 09, 2026
