Dr. Elissa Epel
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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Although I do want to say, Rangan, that about 30% of people, that's probably a high estimate, do not benefit from monitoring their sleep.
It makes them more neurotic and anxious.
So this is definitely not for everyone.
That's a great question.
I think wearables are great for increasing our awareness for limited periods where we can actually become aware of how our exercise habits, our sleep times, all of these things are affecting our nervous system.
And for people who love to wear it all the time, I rarely take off my Oura ring.
That's fine.
But the real goal is to increase the synchrony, the entunement that we have with our body and know...
what daily interventions, nudges, micro practices help us and then stop monitoring, right?
So once we know, we know.
I mean, it's beautiful that you can give yourself this holistic, here's where my mind-body complex is at today.
So maybe I want to be more gentle.
Maybe I need to do more self-care or maybe I'm ready to like seize the day.
That's the goal really, right?
Not to depend on wearables.
I really feel more strongly about that when we think about glucose monitoring.
Glucose monitoring can drive you absolutely crazy when you put in a continuous glucose monitor and you can see how your glucose responds to everything you do, to your sleep, to every meal, to stress eating.
I've been so amused by how dramatic my glucose responds to
when I haven't had enough sleep and I'm stressed about something and if I eat the wrong thing, boom, I'm like in a pre-diabetic state.
So I study that, but seeing that, oh, that happens to me too.
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