The Crescent Team

Breathing exercises for sleep, stress and relaxation: The link between deep breathing and the parasympathetic nervous system

From our friends at Othership: a guide to how breathwork can improve your sleep, stress, and recovery, and the science behind how deep breathing influences your autonomic nervous system!

Physical performance

Ultimate Guide for Athletes: Sleep & Exercise, Training, and Recovery

More and more athletes at the top of their game are relying on a performance-enhancing — drug free — supplement: healthy, restful sleep.

Sleep tech

Guide to Sleep Trackers: Sleep Experts Review, Compare, and Test Top Sleep Trackers

We help you decipher how some of the top sleep trackers perform and identify the most useful information you’ll get from each device.

Exercise Recovery Formula

We create the “demand to grow” in the gym. The body says, “Woah that was intense! I'd better adapt just in case...

Sleep tech

Apple Watch OS9's New Sleep Stages: How Good Is It and What It Means for Your Sleep

Sleep experts review Apple Watch's sleep stages tracking feature in the new WatchOS9. How good is the data and what you should know

Spotlights

Sleeping like Olympians: Dr. Amy Bender Wants to Awaken the Champion in You

This sleep scientist and elite athlete has implemented sleep optimization strategies for Canadian Olympic and pro sports teams. She's now turning her attention to the rest of us.

Protocol guides

Protocol: Morning Sunlight

Getting outside in the morning (even if it's cloudy) puts a halt to melatonin production, and boosts serotonin which gives you a boost for your day! Our internal clocks...

Protocol guides

Protocol: Magnesium Supplementation

Magnesium is part of more than 300 enzymatic reactions (some for energy production and some for sleep) which makes it pretty important to get enough!

News

Crescent Chat Recordings - expert advice just for our members

Get up close and personal with experts! Watch your email for the next event invite

Spotlights

Scientist Dr. Marco Altini on Why You Should Care About HRV

HRV4Training helps athletes of all levels—that includes Olympic medalists and you—better balance training and lifestyle stressors to improve performance.

Biological rhythms

Rhythms: A New Feature to Help You Understand Your Daily Rhythms

Crescent's new feature, Rhythms, helps you track and how you’ll feel all day long. It’s part self-awareness builder, part daily planner, and part coaching aid.

Biological rhythms

Rhythms: Nutrition

Cognitive performance

Can Dreams Help You Solve Problems?

When thinking harder doesn't solve a problem, your dreaming mind may dig deep and find a good idea.

Sleep health

What's Your True Chronotype?

Our modern, plugged-in lifestyle has kind of messed with our chronotypes. Here's why you may need a reset.

Spotlights

Turning Data into Performance: How Dr. Sian Allen is making data-driven performance science accessible to everyone

Dr. Sian Allen's mission is to make sports science as accessible to the general public as it is to professional athletes.

Sleep health

It’s Time to Ditch Sleep Hygiene and Get on Board with Sleep Health

Sleep hygiene is not effective and science has so much more to offer. Here's how sleep health can help move us forward.

Nutrition

5 Nutritious Foods That Are Also Good For Your Sleep

Did you know what you eat during the day might have an impact on your night's sleep? Here are 5 foods that might help and the research behind them.

Spotlights

Doctor's Orders: Behavior Science Founder Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz on How to Improve Your Sleep Health

As the founder of the Human Behaviour Club (the largest on Clubhouse), Dr. Sohaib dissects how we interact with tech and health based on behavioral economics and cognitive science.

News

Introducing Crescent Health, and our new mobile app experience

Bioloop is rebranding to Crescent. Welcome to the new horizon for health.

Sleep health

Getting Down to Sleep and Sex

One of sleep hygiene's best practices is to only use your bed for sleep and sex. As it turns out, getting more of one will get you more of the other.

Spotlights

Mollie McGlocklin Wants to Help Sharpen Your Sleep Skills

This wellness influencer would like to spare you from a life without sleep. . . because she's been there.

Spotlights

4 Tips to Optimize Metabolic and Sleep Health from Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels

Insights from Josh Clemente, Founder of Levels Health on improving your sleep and metabolic health by taking your glucose levels into account.

Sleep health

CBT-I: What is it and How does it work?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is the most effective treatment for insomnia. We'll tell you what it is and how it works.

Sleep tech

The New Generation 3 Oura Ring: What's In It For Your Sleep?

We examined all of the data comparing the Oura 2 vs. 3 and have put it together for you here. Learn more about Oura ring's 3rd generation

Spotlights

6 ways to stay on top of your sleep - Insights from HVMN CEO Michael Brandt

Insights and tips from Michael Brandt, the CEO of HVMN, on ketones, improving our sleep health, optimizing our health and productivity, and finding purpose in our work.