In the event that you have not had time to read Ben Greenfield's most recent
blog post on the ŌURA Ring, I have outlined the new features ŌURA has released over the past couple of months.
First, we have always measured HRV while you sleep but had not previously shown it. We now show your average HRV derived all of the 5-minute samples taken while you sleep. This would mean 96 distinct samples assuming you slept for eight hours. Pretty neat and way more accurate than measurements taken after you have woken up in the morning.
Second, we now show temperature deviation graphs. The ring determines your baseline and then reports deviations from this baseline. Dramatic changes in temperature can predict the onset of illness, as well as help women, track their ovulation cycle.
Finally, we released a web dashboard. The dashboard shows a lot of the data you already see on the IOS and Android apps but adds a graph of all the HRV samples measured while you slept. This HRV graph can help you understand if your sleep helped you recover from the previous day's activities. For instance, an upward trending HRV is a good indicator that your sleep contributed to a solid recovery. The dashboard also allows you to view long range trends for almost all of the metrics we track. You can use these long term trends to build your own correlations to lifestyle changes, etc.
Until next time,
Chuck
