What sleep really means

Since 2010, Nickolai has coached and taught more than 1,000 people in health, performance, and quality of life—including doctors, pharmacists, high performers, and professional athletes. With over 500 talks delivered, he's passionate about making health practical, long-term, and realistic in busy everyday life - and then he have a big love for good sleep.

Laura Kanadel is a certified sleep counsellor and founder of The Sleep Institute in Denmark, where she helps individuals and organisations improve sleep through practical, science-led education. She is also founder of MUUN, a sleep brand focused on helping people build better nightly routines.

With more than a decade of experience in training and development, Laura brings sleep research into everyday life through counselling, lectures, workshops and masterclasses. Her work sits at the heart of the Copenhagen Health Week programme: making rest a serious pillar of health, performance, mental wellbeing and long-term vitality.

Mads Friis is the founder of Growth Island and works at the intersection of longevity, human performance, and behaviour change. He works primarily with male entrepreneurs and business leaders, helping them build better health, energy, and resilience while reducing long-term health risks. He runs longevity programs focused on men’s health and has spent more than a decade exploring the science and practice of sleep, mental health, habits, and sustainable performance. Mads is also the author of Winning Habits and Routines and host of the Mads Friis podcast, where he has interviewed leading researchers and practitioners in health and performance.

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Dr. Sharanya is a physician and functional medicine practitioner with a background spanning clinical medicine, hormonal health, and healthcare strategy. She holds an MBBS and a Master of Public Health from the University of Glasgow. Her clinical focus sits at the intersection of functional medicine, longevity, and hormonal health, with particular depth in menopause, HRT, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). She brings this work into her podcast, where she interviews specialists across functional medicine, nutrition, and performance, and she currently serves as Clinical Advisor to Human Performance Lab, where she reviews the clinical protocols behind its testing-to-treatment model.