Dr. Michael Grandner

And just because these are measurement tools, measurement tools are not interventions.

People, if you're buying this to give you information, to make a change,

And you don't know what to do with the number it's giving you.

How is it going to make a change?

Just because it gives you a number, just because it's a fancy bathroom scale that has an app and has all kinds of other metrics in it, doesn't mean it's giving you useful information that you know what to do with.

So the first thing in terms of creating actionable...

steps out of this is first to realize that it's it's spitting you out a number it's measuring something to make an informed choice of what to do with that information you have to know what that number means so first is i got to teach you a little bit about what these numbers mean and what these numbers don't mean then just like just like when you see the amount of sleep you got

What does that number mean?

Does it, does it mean I'm meeting guidelines or not?

No, it doesn't mean that, but does it, if I see it over time, if I see I'm usually hitting six and a half, six and a half, but today I was at five.

What happened?

It's like it, that is the number it's probably best at.

So if I'm going to make a decision based on wearables, the first number I'm looking at is the, how much sleep did I get?

And where did it detect the awakenings?

Cause those were probably correct, especially if they were more than a couple of minutes.

And.

Are there discrepancies between what my memory of the night was and what the device found?

And in those discrepancies might be some wisdom.

So sometimes people with insomnia feel like they were up all night, but they actually got more sleep than they thought because they were up and down.

So they could use the wearable device to sort of de-stress a little bit and find the sleep that they may not remember.