Dr. Stacy Sims

So what happens after ovulation is your respiratory rate goes up, your resting heart rate goes up, and your HRV plummets.

So on the wearables, most women about five days before their period start will never be in a

the clear so to speak they will never look recovered they will never look like they can take on a lot of stress they're not stress resilient because of the way the algorithms are reading this change that is natural that is produced by progesterone to alter our respiratory rate and our heart rate it doesn't mean that she's not stress resilient is what the wearable is saying

This is why we do not let athletes use wearables leading up to a peak event because they feed into what the wearables are telling them.

And it's not true data with regards to how their body can actually perform.

Exactly.

I've always been pushing for the past five or six years interacting with wearable companies.

It's like, if you want to capture it well, then you need to be able to compare follicular to follicular and luteal to luteal.

So comparing...

Yes, definitely helpful.

But no, then it comes back again on the woman trying to understand and interpret the data herself.

Which can be a little bit problematic because there's so many women out there like, my wearable told me that I'm in the red, I can't do anything today.

When in fact, physically and psychologically, they can do what they set out to do.

It's just now they have this little seed saying that, no, you can't do it because of an improper algorithm on their wearable.

Well, it's not talked about, I think.

It's one of the things that people still think it's taboo and rare.

But I think all of us around the table had a pregnancy loss.

Oh, yeah.

New Zealand's a year.

Steve took a picture of me in the hospital, and it was a day after I gave birth.