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🌟 Explore the World of #Smartwatches! ⌚️💡 💤 Say goodbye to nightmares and sleep disturbances with innovative sleep tracking technology. ⌚️ Keep track of your sleep patterns and improve sleep quality with advanced sleep monitoring features. ⌚️ Stay organized and connected with convenient features like notifications. ❤️🔥 Prioritize your heart health with wearable devices that monitor blood pressure and detect irregular heart rhythms. 💨 Monitor your blood oxygen levels and stay aware of your overall wellness. 🧘♀️ Achieve balance and manage stress with smartwatches that offer meditation and stress management features. 🌈 Embrace emotional well-being with wearable devices designed to support individuals with disabilities. #Wellness #WearableTech

Sleep trackers, whether standalone devices or features in wearable tech, offer insightful data into our nocturnal patterns. They monitor the duration of our sleep, its quality, and even the various sleep stages—light, deep, and REM. By capturing these nuances, they provide a comprehensive view of our sleep health. Why does this matter? If you're consistently waking up fatigued, a tracker might reveal you're missing out on vital deep sleep. Or you may be in bed for 8 hours but only sleeping soundly for 5. With this data, you can implement changes, adjust your bedtime routine, room environment, or seek medical advice. Moreover, these devices often have smart alarms designed to wake you during lighter sleep. This can lead to mornings where you feel refreshed rather than groggy. #symplicitywellness #sleep #bedtimeroutine #oolacoach #happysleeping

Don't let Daylight Saving Time throw off your rhythm! From sleep disruptions to road safety and shift work complexities, explore how retimer wearable provides a solution. -Regulates light exposure -boosts mood, and  -enhances sleep quality. Your well-being is timeless; let the retimer help you stay in sync. #retimer #healthandwellness #dst

Still Thinking about 8 hrs of sleep = standard perfect sleep? Time to update 💫 This seems to emphasize too much for the quantity, not the quality. People, time to add a new dimensions in this statement: Quality. Nowadays, there are many wearables that could help you out on this. While they are not 100% accurate (well, nothing is...), they do give good reference on how recovered your body truly is. My favourite ones are OURA & WHOOP. Hence, I do use both nightly to give me some data on where I'm on my cognitive performance scale. Btw, the above statement doesn't include people's unique body clock, chronotype. if you wanna wanna know yours. Click the link below! 🌟 https://buff.ly/3OcP7dH

Consumer-grade sleep trackers are all the rage now but are they helpful or harmful to sleep? Read more in our blog: https://bit.ly/47A4kfu as we explore the benefits and limitations of wearable sleep trackers.

I LOVE the new feature by WHOOP to hide sleep and recovery metrics. Normally I’m highly motivated by the daily feedback and plan my workout intensity and sleep schedule around it…but when I’m traveling for work I’m nearly always in the yellow or red no matter what I do. I already know that during work travel my workouts need to be less intense and my sleep extra prioritized…seeing no “green” for my extra efforts demotivates me. So, hiding it will help me stay focused on my client needs and less worried about my recovery performance until I get back. I’m excited to test the feature on an upcoming trip next month. Anyone else use this feature yet? Results? #whoop #fitnesstech #healthtech #humanperformance #workout #recovery

An article today in the New York Times by Markham Hyde takes a critical look at the value of sleep wearables. Headlined ‘Scam or not – The truth about sleep trackers’, Hyde reports on interviews with a number of sleep specialists, most of whom were not overly impressed with the underlying science, metrics and usefulness of consumer sleep trackers. For example, Dr. Kathy Goldstein, a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, states ‘: “Ugh, these sleep scores or readiness scores are the worst. I tell my patients to ignore those.” Further “If you’re not sleeping well, having this device that tells you how poorly you’re sleeping might make things worse”. Indeed as we reported earlier, research has found that these devices can stress people out or increase their focus on sleep, which can be deleterious to their health. According to Dr. Kelly Baron, a clinical psychologist and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program at the University of Utah “There is still so much we need to learn about the role of sleep, and how patterns of sleep and sleep disruption affect health……..I think the current devices can be fun for people and provide some interesting information……but sleep can’t be boiled down into a set of numbers or scores…….I have patients who come in saying they’re worried because their device is telling them they’re not getting enough deep sleep, but I couldn’t even tell you how much deep sleep is optimal.” And as pointed out by Dr.Mathias Baumert and his team at the University of Adelaide, the mystery is exacerbated by the fact that the algorithms companies use to determine these scores are often proprietary and not scientifically vetted. In other words, buyer beware! Here is the link to the article https://nyti.ms/40ZugiI #wearables #sleeptrackers #sleepstages #REM #deepsleep #sleeppatterns

An article today in the New York Times by Markham Hyde takes a critical look at the value of sleep wearables. Headlined ‘Scam or not – The truth about sleep trackers’, Hyde reports on interviews with a number of sleep specialists, most of whom were not overly impressed with the underlying science, metrics and usefulness of consumer sleep trackers. For example, Dr. Kathy Goldstein, a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Michigan, states ‘: “Ugh, these sleep scores or readiness scores are the worst. I tell my patients to ignore those.” Further “If you’re not sleeping well, having this device that tells you how poorly you’re sleeping might make things worse”. Indeed as we reported earlier, research has found that these devices can stress people out or increase their focus on sleep, which can be deleterious to their health. According to Dr. Kelly Baron, a clinical psychologist and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine program at the University of Utah “There is still so much we need to learn about the role of sleep, and how patterns of sleep and sleep disruption affect health……..I think the current devices can be fun for people and provide some interesting information……but sleep can’t be boiled down into a set of numbers or scores…….I have patients who come in saying they’re worried because their device is telling them they’re not getting enough deep sleep, but I couldn’t even tell you how much deep sleep is optimal.” And as pointed out by Dr.Mathias Baumert and his team at the University of Adelaide, the mystery is exacerbated by the fact that the algorithms companies use to determine these scores are often proprietary and not scientifically vetted. In other words, buyer beware! Here is the link to the article https://nyti.ms/40ZugiI #wearables #sleeptrackers #sleepstages #REM #deepsleep #sleeppatterns

Are you obsessed with tracking your sleep stages on your wearable device? Dr. Cathy Goldstein, a renowned neurologist and sleep expert, has some eye-opening insights for you. 1. Sleep stages reported by devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbit might not be as accurate or relevant as you think. They estimate sleep based on heart rate and motion, which are different from the EEG-defined sleep. 1. Instead of focusing on these metrics, concentrate on core behaviors that improve sleep quality. Regular sleep timing, not eating before bed, and getting light in the morning can make a real difference. Ready to demystify sleep and improve your health? Check out the latest episode of The BluePrint podcast. Link in bio. #TheBluePrint #SleepScience #sleepstages #SleepQuality #DrCathyGoldstein