Adaptive Thermodynamic Therapy System

A method for affecting a physiological change in a subject user using an adaptive thermodynamic therapy system, said method comprising the steps of:

• obtaining user input data, said user input data comprising at least one of user environmental data, user activity data, user nutritional data, user medicament data, and user body state goals data;
• obtaining user sleep data, said user sleep data comprising at least one of sleep quality and sleep duration;
• obtaining user metabolic data;
• obtaining user physiological data, said physiological data comprising at least one of:
• i. body fat percentage;
• ii. body temperature;
• iii. respiratory rate;
• iv. oxygen saturation;
• v. heart rate;
• vi. skin conductance, and
• vii. blood data;
• generating a multi-dimensional state value representative of said user input data, said sleep data, said metabolic data and said physiological data;
• comparing said state value against a group of state values corresponding to a plurality of other users;
• and
• applying a cold stress to said subject user based upon a result of said step of comparing.

An adaptive thermodynamic therapy system comprising:

• one or more sensors configured to obtain measurements indicating user sleep quality and to convert said measurements into data representative of user sleep quality;
• and
• a control processor responsive to said one or more sensors and configured with a memory comprising control logic that causes said control processor to perform a process comprising the steps of:
• i. receiving said user sleep quality data;
• ii. determining a user sleep state based upon said data, said sleep state being one of REM and NREM;
• and
• iii. initiating cooling through a selectively initiatable thermal load in the event said sleep state is NREM, said thermal load being at least one of a cooling bed, a cooling pillow, and a cooling blanket.