Both whoop band and Apple Watch + https://bevel.health plus a bunch of other fitness apps, give awesome abilities to folks, to improve their sleep, balance their energy cycle, reduce injuries by knowing when to rest more for recovery.
- Sleep
- Properly recovering each day for Consistent Cardio
- Stress minimisation with Tracking Triggers/Causes, Foods
These things alone are monumentally impactful in increasing longevity and health, more than any current available medicine, or therapy. Just these 3 factors alone.
And fitness bands combined with effective apps that make use of these metrics, do a pretty darn good job already to improve all these 3 critical factors that allow you to
- Live a healthier day
- Perform better at work
- Identify and mitigate causes that hurt your sleep (bad sleep -> bad day)
- Balance exercise with recovery
- Managing stress levels and making healthier choices
strictly speaking, I think apnea monitoring as done on the Apple Watch is pretty non-invasive and not too bad.
One thing that ended up being really noisy and irritating was a continuous glucose monitor. It turns out it's possible to stick those things in you in a way that can false alarm blood sugar drops during your sleep, at which point your CGM app freaks the hell out and wakes you up.
The reviews I've read/watched about wearables ability to track sleep patterns seem to show great variability between what one wearable would say versus another.
- Sleep
- Properly recovering each day for Consistent Cardio
- Stress minimisation with Tracking Triggers/Causes, Foods
These things alone are monumentally impactful in increasing longevity and health, more than any current available medicine, or therapy. Just these 3 factors alone.
And fitness bands combined with effective apps that make use of these metrics, do a pretty darn good job already to improve all these 3 critical factors that allow you to
- Live a healthier day
- Perform better at work
- Identify and mitigate causes that hurt your sleep (bad sleep -> bad day)
- Balance exercise with recovery
- Managing stress levels and making healthier choices