Hey, whatever works.Ī word about these “optimum” scores: Studies have shown that among fitness and sleep trackers, the Oura Ring Gen 3 is tops, along with Garmin, for tracking sleep…and since the ease and chic of wearing my matte black ring beats a big running watch by a mile, there’s no competition. (Although, truth: Sometimes I find myself thinking, when I get to sleep at a reasonable hour, that I can’t wait to wake up and get a “good grade” from my Oura Ring, as though it is my kindergarten teacher and I’m an eager grade schooler). Granted, these are not new suggestions for someone who feels blah-just go to sleep earlier! meditate!-but the app’s way of quantifying and personalizing my body’s performance makes me more interested in hearing and taking the device’s advice. There are even guided mediations with water, rain and other natural sounds to help relax me before shut-eye.
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What’s nice is that Oura gives suggestions as to how to increase less-than-optimum scores-for example, the app suggested I go to sleep earlier, since deep sleep occurs more frequently earlier at night. For example, I learned that I am deficient in REM sleep (the body needs at least 1.5 hours a day to re-energize mind and body) as well as deep sleep (the 1+ hours in which muscles relax and repair, blood pressure drops and the brain flushes out toxins). We’ve learned, just by tapping on the explainers next to our read-outs on the app, that it’s not only the total amount of sleep that factors into how refreshed you feel, it’s the amount of time your body spends in various sleep stages. “The biometrics this ring gives you for the money is incredible,” she says,
Today, my friend is back to wearing her Oura 3 ring after her doctor ran an electrocardiogram and determined her heart-healthy.
It’s just information, data that helpfully guide you to behavior changes or even a medical check-up, but not data that should stress you out. So here’s my takeaway-if you’re a hair-trigger symptoms Googler, you need to remember that this ring is not an electrocardiogram that’s poised to tell you death is impending. I flip through my daily Oura Ring biometrics on the app, and even when I slip up and get less than six hours of sleep a night, I am usually pleasantly surprised by how much I learn about not only the science of sleep and overall well-being, but also how I can personally make slight adjustments to my daily habits in order to feel better. She was seriously agitated over what she perceived as an alarmingly elevated resting heart rate that she called her cardiologist-she’s seen a heart specialist ever since suffering a mild stroke a year ago-who gently told her to take off her Oura Ring until she’d had an EKG to make sure everything was fine (it was). I’d just been seriously looking at my sleep score, readiness score and other metrics when my pal called me in a panic. I've been wearing my Oura Ring for three months (and even got my friend to get one), and we compare scores and look at metrics all the time.
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For wearable tech neophytes, this sleep and wellness tracker looks like a simple wedding band but is actually a titanium band filled with technology that enables it to track wearers’ sleep stages, menstrual cycles, heart rate, blood oxygen level, breathing rate, skin temperature and heart rate variability (which I didn’t even know was a thing, until the Oura Ring made me ashamed of mine…more on that in a minute). I wasn’t impressed by such revelations, until the new Oura Ring Gen 3 model arrived, which added new, game-changing functionality. Back cover.I first encountered this wearable tech a few years ago, when a friend tried an early iteration, which yielded the hardly revolutionary insight that he slept worse when he had a few drinks. Set in New Hampshire in the 1830s, Hue and Cry takes its name from a historic band of men who dedicated themselves to work with the sheriff in bringing horse thieves to justice. In this sequel to The Journeyman, Elizabeth Yates continues the story of Jared and Jennet, centering now on their two sons, Rufus and Benoni, and their courageous daughter, Melody. Little does she realize, however, that because of Danny O'Dare and the horse Blue Lightning, her silent, lonely world will be changed forever. Upon meeting him, she is both intriqued and perplexed, for she must face the question of what to do about him and the horse he has stolen. One day she discovers that a stranger, a young Irish boy, is hiding in the woods near the lake she often visits. For Melody is deaf, and she cannot utter an intelligible word. When Melody Austin goes out into the woods, she can enjoy the beauty of the trees and the shimmer of her beloved lake, but she can't hear the birds singing, nor can she tell her parents what she has seen.
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