The Night Shift: What your body is really doing while you sleep
📅 Date: September 29, 2026
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Prismeo LAB, Hongkongstr. 1, 20457 Hamburg (Map)
🎟️ Price: Free entry
Language of the Talk: German
While you sleep, your body doesn't take a break; it simply works differently.
But what actually happens during those hours when we seem to be doing nothing?
At The Night Shift, we'll explore the essential processes of regeneration and regulation that take place while we sleep, how sleep architecture really works, and why the quality of our nights may be one of the most important factors we can influence for long-term health and healthspan.
We'll go beyond theory and bring the science into everyday life, separating evidence from hype and turning what we know about sleep into practical strategies you can actually use.
🔬 What to expect
Sleep Myths
An interactive fact check: What do we think we know about sleep? And what does the current science actually tell us?
The Biology of Sleep
REM, NREM and the circadian rhythm. Understand why healthy sleep is about much more than simply counting hours.
Sleep & Longevity
What does the evidence tell us about sleep and brain health, cardiometabolic health and biological aging?
From Science to Action
From polyphasic sleep and shift work to supplements such as melatonin, tryptophan and magnesium and the role of caffeine metabolism. What is supported by evidence, what is uncertain, and what is simply hype?
Hands-on: Sleep Tools
Explore and discuss sleep technology and tools firsthand, from wearables such as WHOOP to blue-light filtering glasses, sleep masks and light therapy lamps.
👩⚕️ Our Speaker: Dr. med. Asi Ukere
Physician for Preventive Medicine & Longevity
Dr. Asi Ukere is a physician with extensive experience in acute and intensive care medicine. As a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine, she spent 15 years at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), including many years as a senior physician.
Today, she focuses on preventive and longevity medicine in Berlin and Hamburg.
Her approach combines conventional medical expertise with modern preventive strategies and diagnostics, from microbiome and metabolic health to genetics. Her goal is to understand what we can influence proactively, before prevention turns into repair.
🎤 Our Moderator: Thomas “Tom” Lerche
Thomas “Tom” Lerche will guide us through the evening.
As a Hamburg-based expert in events and communication and a passionate biohacker, Tom has a talent for making complex medical and scientific topics accessible and engaging.
With a background in media management and studies at Harvard Summer School, he brings both analytical curiosity and a conversational style to the discussion, asking the questions we all have, from interpreting wearable data to designing the perfect night.
📍 The Venue: Prismeo Lab
For this special edition of Longevity Hamburg, we're excited to take over the Prismeo Labs in Hamburg.
The impressive showroom provides a unique setting for an evening at the intersection of science, technology and health, a space normally used by companies to explore new ideas and develop innovative solutions.
For one evening, it becomes a place where science meets community and theory meets practice.
About the host
Longevity Hamburg is part of Longevity Cities, a global community making science-based longevity accessible, open, and human. From Munich and Berlin to London, Zürich, and beyond, we bring people together in cities around the world to learn, move, and live better, without the fear and without the extremes. More at longevity-cities.com.
📅 Schedule
18:00: Arrival & Networking 18:30: Welcome to Longevity Hamburg Tobias Axenbeck & Thomas Lerche
18:45: Keynote: The Night Shift Dr. Asi Ukere
19:30: Q&A, Discussion & Hands-on Session Sleep technology, wearables & tools
Afterwards: Drinks, food & networking
🌙 One third of your life is spent asleep.
So why not understand what's actually happening while you're there?
Join us for an evening of evidence-based science, practical insights and meaningful conversations about one of the most fundamental pillars of healthspan.
Places are limited to 50 participants.
🎟️ Reserve your spot now - we look forward to seeing you at The Night Shift.