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Background

Our bodies experience changes throughout the day, week, month, or year. Many of these changes are cyclic, meaning they repeat regularly over time. For example, typically our body experiences dramatic changes in breathing rate, temperature, and heart rate every night when we fall asleep. These changes occur as part of our circadian rhythm, but there are other more subtle rhythms that are of importance to our health and wellbeing, some occur multiple times a day (known as ultradian rhythms) and other over weeks or months (infradian rhythms). 

In this study, we wish to develop new ways of measuring these rhythms using wearable devices, that involve the least possible intrusion into the lives of those involved in the study. Furthermore, we wish to investigate how our sleep and wellbeing are related to these rhythms. In the future, we may use these findings in healthy populations to look for disruptions to biological rhythms in disease conditions.  More information about our study, as well as some frequently asked questions, are available here.

Who can take part? 

·                     You must be over 18 and be able to provide written informed consent 

·                     You must be willing to try wearing the wearable devices for a continuous 4-week period 

·                     You should be generally healthy (contact us if in doubt)

Why participate?

If you are interested in trying out wearable devices, or glucose monitors for your health and wellbeing, this study will allow you to do this. If you are interested in a particular sensor (e.g. Glucose), or device (e.g. Garmin) please let us know at the point of registering your interest. During the study, you will be able to view some of your data as they are measured by the sensors. 

Sign-up

If you or someone you know might be interested in participating, we would greatly appreciate it if you book a 30 minute setup session using the short form below.