Dr. Mark Hyman
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Now, when I read these early papers, I thought to myself, hold on, if that's the case, then don't we have now a method of interrogating the age of the immune system against the way that a person looks, acts, and feels? What happens if we start studying the age of their immune system against their headaches?
Now, when I read these early papers, I thought to myself, hold on, if that's the case, then don't we have now a method of interrogating the age of the immune system against the way that a person looks, acts, and feels? What happens if we start studying the age of their immune system against their headaches?
or against their energy level, or against their sleep, or against their arthritis, or against their cognitive performance, or whatever variable, or their exercise tolerance. Now people are starting to do that. And then, at the start of COVID, I was wearing my fitness monitor, my Oura Ring, and
or against their energy level, or against their sleep, or against their arthritis, or against their cognitive performance, or whatever variable, or their exercise tolerance. Now people are starting to do that. And then, at the start of COVID, I was wearing my fitness monitor, my Oura Ring, and
or against their energy level, or against their sleep, or against their arthritis, or against their cognitive performance, or whatever variable, or their exercise tolerance. Now people are starting to do that. And then, at the start of COVID, I was wearing my fitness monitor, my Oura Ring, and
I got wondering, I wonder if the Oura Ring, when it's measuring these biometrics, is indirectly measuring aspects of my immune system.
I got wondering, I wonder if the Oura Ring, when it's measuring these biometrics, is indirectly measuring aspects of my immune system.
I got wondering, I wonder if the Oura Ring, when it's measuring these biometrics, is indirectly measuring aspects of my immune system.
And so then I started to say, well, if you look at heart rate variability, you look at body temperature upon sleeping, if you look at sleep patterns, if you look at heart rate, if you look at respiration oxygen levels, all these things are indirect surrogate markers for immune system function.
And so then I started to say, well, if you look at heart rate variability, you look at body temperature upon sleeping, if you look at sleep patterns, if you look at heart rate, if you look at respiration oxygen levels, all these things are indirect surrogate markers for immune system function.
And so then I started to say, well, if you look at heart rate variability, you look at body temperature upon sleeping, if you look at sleep patterns, if you look at heart rate, if you look at respiration oxygen levels, all these things are indirect surrogate markers for immune system function.
So then I started to say, could we correlate the immune age that we come off of our blood spot analysis with our Fitbit or whatever. In this case, I was using Oura Ring. And I did a couple of early papers on this, little publications. And then I found out that the company, Oura, was rapidly involved with studying with Stanford.
So then I started to say, could we correlate the immune age that we come off of our blood spot analysis with our Fitbit or whatever. In this case, I was using Oura Ring. And I did a couple of early papers on this, little publications. And then I found out that the company, Oura, was rapidly involved with studying with Stanford.
So then I started to say, could we correlate the immune age that we come off of our blood spot analysis with our Fitbit or whatever. In this case, I was using Oura Ring. And I did a couple of early papers on this, little publications. And then I found out that the company, Oura, was rapidly involved with studying with Stanford.
the relationship between the biometrics that come off the Oura Ring with that of immune system function. And they published the paper showing that you could detect some days before you got an infection based on your Oura Ring data whether you were going to have an immune problem. Wow.
the relationship between the biometrics that come off the Oura Ring with that of immune system function. And they published the paper showing that you could detect some days before you got an infection based on your Oura Ring data whether you were going to have an immune problem. Wow.
the relationship between the biometrics that come off the Oura Ring with that of immune system function. And they published the paper showing that you could detect some days before you got an infection based on your Oura Ring data whether you were going to have an immune problem. Wow.
These are the interesting things that we're starting to learn about how the immune system is connected to how we look, act, and feel. Then I started to say, well, what about obesity? Let's talk about that for a second. So I think that there's two types of obesity. One type I call friendly fat. This is like Santa Claus. That person doesn't have altered metabolic function. Their insulin's fine.
These are the interesting things that we're starting to learn about how the immune system is connected to how we look, act, and feel. Then I started to say, well, what about obesity? Let's talk about that for a second. So I think that there's two types of obesity. One type I call friendly fat. This is like Santa Claus. That person doesn't have altered metabolic function. Their insulin's fine.
These are the interesting things that we're starting to learn about how the immune system is connected to how we look, act, and feel. Then I started to say, well, what about obesity? Let's talk about that for a second. So I think that there's two types of obesity. One type I call friendly fat. This is like Santa Claus. That person doesn't have altered metabolic function. Their insulin's fine.