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20 thoughts on “Asking Doctor Mike About Fitness Wearables”

  1. I suffer from very bad sleep habits, I can't get to bet on time and I can't get up on time either. I know, I know, this is a purely discipline issue. I even went to a therapist who told me that I can solve this by waking up at certain times every day. So I bought a fitbit watch and it kind of helps… that vibration on my wrist is annoying enough to get me out of bed. Plus I can agree that the watch really does wake me up when my sleep is in the lightest stage, so it is easier in mornings… And also I don't want to mess up my sleep stats so I just drag myself out of bed no matter how late I fell asleep.

  2. This video probably popped into my feed because I had been researching and watching some reviews on health trackers. Seems that now in March/April 2024 these recent generation of products are good enough that they are not as gimmicky as a couple years ago. A couple years ago it was something like more than half the time they were less than 50{63ea5be50f54569954d442015639ec5a17aa3072669d5c9419118ee976a460f8} accurate. Now, for $100-400 you can get a devices that can be argued are 70{63ea5be50f54569954d442015639ec5a17aa3072669d5c9419118ee976a460f8}+ accurate for sleep, and some are medically certified for heart monitoring. To get 'medically' accurate you're looking at at least thousands of $ of devices to monitor heart rate, HRV, spO2.
    This can at least give you a baseline and see how protocols affect your wellbeing. However, if you don't have at least some understanding about improving/maximizing your well being the data is more or less useless, a gimmick for entertainment.

  4. Todays fitness wearables are like Tamagochi, but silly little animal you are trying to keep alive is you 😀

  5. I spent a year in and out of a&e multiple times a week, doctors couldn't find what was wrong with me as the readings were normal when I got there, I eventually got fed up and bought a Samsung watch a kept all the readings for the cardiologist, I was able to get my Dx a year later with the help of my watch, it literally saved my life. I now lead a fairly regular life with it.

    Edit: and it has saved my life since upon fainting and hitting my head when alone, it's great technology to have at fairly affordable prices.

  6. I know I can feel that my HR is high, and how to try to fix it. But what I like about the smartwatches is that I can SHOW actual data of it happening.
    So is not some “stupid womanly thingy feeling” but actual data.
    It’s actual data and not me imagining things.
    Just like how much certain show made my HR spike (how triggering it was for me in a non “wishy washy” way)
    It really helped me, being a 40 something and late dx ND woman, to explain myself to healthcare workers.

  7. Just bought myself a galaxy watch the other day. The unexpected benefit I've notified right away is the "Time to move" automatic feature which does work in my case. Even if I shut it down, slowly but surely it makes me stand up and move compared to spending 6-11 hours in front of my computer all day (besides the obvious rounds to the fridge, sink and toilet). Which was a surprise.

  8. Is anyone else concerned about the implications of giving these private companies continuous access to the data that your body produces?

  10. Hmmmm, I don't get get any unbiased testing results on my doctors, I just hope they know what they are doing. Frankly, the results have been mixed.

  11. We need real doctors actually trying instead of guessing and sending you to every specialist under the sun and milking your insurance.

  12. Fitness trackers are for motivation and to remember your (in) consistency over time. Very easy to misremember effort in the past, which is why tracking it allows you to better understand and improve your progress

  14. 4:40 fr literally nobody gave a shit about any of these statistics before the Apple Watch came out. It's like sleep tracking u should just be taking the steps to have good sleep hygiene without the statistics, and viewing them don't really provide anything valuable to that issue

  15. I am really interesting what the new Apple Watch can do regarding women's menstrual cycles. An aspect often not spoken about in men's tech discussions. But more control there without pills, or complicated measurements could be a huge game changer for women.

  16. He brought a good point, does it matter to track as long as you’re doing the habits? I will say it’s nice to see that it’s working, like he said it’s a motivator.

  17. I'mtrying to find the best one to show my doctor my stymtoms in actual approximate numbers cause I'm bad at explaing it

  19. I had to make myself stop wearing mine because of my panic disorder. My biggest trigger and symptom for/of panic attacks is sudden and severe medical anxiety about my cardiac health, and I have a plethora of physical discomforts that come on from it; making it a little more complicated than just knowing its anxiety and brushing it off (although I work on being able to do that lol). So when I become anxious and the stress raises my heart rate, and then the watch goes off giving me a warning, its like a positive feedback loop enabling my irrational and anxious thoughts. Just unfortunate.

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