Dr. Jay Wiles

So we'd have like these really tight, big blue mountains that we'd want to see that are occurring across the night.

When someone is having really poor problems with sleep, and this can be due to sleep disordered breathing.

So let's just say they've got sleep apnea or they just have an immensely dysregulated nervous system, really cannot bounce back from stress.

They've got other problems related just to autonomic flexibility.

We see that that high frequency coupling is really low.

Like, so it looks like they're not getting hardly any restorative sleep.

And when they're not getting any restorative sleep, they start to experience kind of like this sympathetic burst at night, what we call fragmentation.

And you can't pick up fragmentation on, like, a consumer-based wearable.

This is why you've got to go to the high-fidelity stuff that they have at Absolute Rest.

Yeah.

Oh, I think the sampling rate's 1,000 hertz.

So it's really high.

Small, small bits.

So small, what we call epics, or just small bits of time.

Yeah.

And so going back to this, if we see that someone's having a lot of fragmentation at night, so the sympathetic nervous system starting to kick into high gear, you know, heart rate is bouncing up.

We're starting to see kind of like this pattern that we don't want to see when we're at rest.

Well, what does that cause us to do?

Fragmentation causes us not to get into the deepest stages of like in three sleep or the real restorative stages.

It keeps us in very light sleep and then what does it do?