Leuty Parker

Tag: #ourarings

  • Oura Ring

    Following on with the SWT posts, a health-tracking smart ring. As with most other SWTs, it’s described as a “holistic health tool.”, this product was originally released in 2015, and was a great introduction to the SWT market. The concept was design to track your sleep, activity, and recovery, delivering personalised health insights through its companion app.

    The company’s latest product, the Oura Ring 4, expands on the Gen3 with more advanced tools for tracking and understanding your wellbeing.

    Like all other SWT products that have been featured before in this blog,  your tracks health which includes sleep activity and recovery,meanwhile personalise all data that has been collected.

    Overall, while this addition to the SWT market offers familiar features, the SWT sector really needs a more creative, innovative, and distinctive contribution. It is expected that it will still stay true to the brand’s identity.

  • 4/5 – Sleep

    We all take it for granted, but there’s a bit of a hype about sleeping better so to adhere to this hype, let me begin.

    It’s best to wake probably about an hour before you’re meant to wake, something called PER levels go up, making your body temperature rise, and blood pressure too.

    Preparing for waking up early, your body releases stress hormones, which is generally called “stress hormone” but can include cortisol, catecholamine (eg adrenaline) vasopressin (otherwise known as antidiuretic hormone) & growth hormone.

    I try to turn my phone completely off when I go to sleep, so no distractions.

    The type of bed is very necessary to get a good nights sleep, so that includes the right pillow (I really do sound like I’m selling some sleep product), mattress, duvet & even pillow spray.

    Sleep scientists say that rapid eye movement increases your memory. So maybe I need more REM sleep. The only thing I do to boost my sleeping hygiene is put pillow spray to get me more relaxed, but doing this research has made me want to practice what I preach.

    I do, however wake up quite early, without any alarm. So around 6 or 7. I do also keep a dream diary, to test my memory & try to see what is going on in my brain.

    The oura ring (which I really want) is a great sleep, stylish monitor which has a gyroscope, heart monitor & other things. It’s Wireless too, so you can remotely charge it.

    Our sleep has 90 minutes periods & then it starts again. So I guess that works the same when we’re aware; your brain can deal with exercises for up to 90 minutes, then it starts again.

    I don’t practice getting a lot of sleep though, but I do appreciate all the science, so it’s my goal to get a more healthy sleep system.