Self-Knowledge and The Wearable Tracker: Caroline Kryder, Of Oura Ring Explains

What are the benefits of wearable trackers and how do they work?
What is heart rate variability (HRV)? How do trackers understand
when we’re in light sleep, deep sleep, or REM sleep? What is the
optimal time spent for each sleep cycle? What does the future for
wearable trackers look like? 


Wearable trackers take the guesswork out of our health. Instead
of going off of a feeling, you can now get personalized data on
what’s really going on; that’s why we are such big fans of
trackers. Caroline Kryder, the Science Communications Lead at
Oura Ring, joins us on the podcast to share all about wearables
trackers from how they work to how we can use them to optimize
our health.


What you will learn in this episode: 


How wearable trackers works

How wearable trackers provide highly personalized data to
improve your health

The different sleep cycles

How sleep and rest help performance 

What the future holds for wearable trackers



Timestamps: 


00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast


00:00:32 David’s plant based diet experiment 


00:01:43 Introduction to wearable health trackers


00:08:16 Thank you for InsideTracker for sponsoring this episode


00:09:17 Introducing Caroline Kryder


00:09:40 How Oura Ring measures sleep and how much of each sleep
stage we should get


00:16:16 How Oura Ring works


00:17:27 Heart Rate Variability (HRV) 101 


00:23:01 The power of rest


00:25:28 Novel uses of Oura Ring


00:35:28 The future of Oura Ring 


"You don't get to self-care until you get to
self-knowledge." 


“REM sleep is really focused on restoring the mind and deep sleep
is really focused on restoring your body.” 


“We’re used to using soreness as an indicator of an effective
workout because that’s the only thing that you could feel. If you
felt like you’d been hit by a bus, it was probably working. When
in fact, there’s some training that you shouldn’t actually feel
any muscle soreness.” 


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Connect with Caroline Kryder:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-kryder/ 


Oura Ring:


https://ouraring.com


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