Victoria Song

not the correct approach.

I did a lot of research into seeing whether there is clinical evidence that wearables are linked to increased health anxiety, and it's inconclusive.

There have been a lot of studies done, and they're like super great for some people.

And, you know, the only concrete thing I could find in maybe like 10 to 12 studies that I reviewed was that it exacerbates symptoms in people who already have eating disorders or disordered eating.

And some people will be like, oh, that's been around forever.

I encourage you to look into the science literature and see how many people have disordered eating, particularly among populations who are attracted to this data, like athletes, like female athletes.

I want to point to Alyssa Liu, who just won the gold medal for figure skating and how one of the things she said was her condition was, if I come back to this sport, no one is going to tell me what to eat and how much of it.

So I, in writing this, really wanted to say we need to have a much more thoughtful, nuanced discussion about how to integrate these tools into our lives so that they remain tools and we don't live our lives in service to a tool.

Like, we don't become the tools.

We control the tools.

Yeah, so it's... I feel very emotional about it because it's...

It's, I think, not a clear-cut thing.

I cried because I was like, it's done.

It's out there.

And, you know, I finally feel like my journey is not over because I really got to get these side effects like under control.

But it feels like done enough.

And I feel very strongly that if we can continue the conversation and have really smart conversations about it.

That maybe we can push these companies to be a little more human in how they create these features.

Because they do think about it.

They really do think about it.