Wearable devices not only track your steps and stress levels. They also enable you to discover how your body responds to daily life. Through continuous monitoring and analysis, you can uncover unexpected triggers and patterns, gaining valuable insights into your physiological responses to different stressors. This self-discovery process allows you to catch possible health complications before you experience any symptoms.
In this episode, Dr. Torkil Færø, GP, emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, and author, shares his expertise in how you can use wearable devices to track your stress and regulate your physiology.
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Wearable tracking devices can provide you with personalized insights into your stress triggers and bodily responses. Having personalized data can guide your behavior changes for improved health outcomes. Dr. Færø also touches on the importance of sleep consistency, lifestyle choices’ impact on sleep, and the significance of using wearable technology to monitor sleep patterns and stress levels.
Wearable devices such as the Garmin watch, Samsung watch, Oura ring, and others offer 24/7 monitoring of stress levels, providing insights into your stress triggers. This data can give you the tools to make informed decisions about your lifestyle, diet, and exercise habits.
Certain lifestyle habits like alcohol consumption and late-night meals can induce stress responses in the body, impacting overall health. Wearable technology can help you uncover unexpected stress triggers, guiding you towards lifestyle changes for improved well-being.
Creating a conducive sleep environment, maintaining sleep consistency, and avoiding alcohol consumption and late-night meals are essential strategies for restorative sleep. Prioritizing restful sleep can significantly impact your overall health and decision-making abilities. Utilizing wearable technology to monitor sleep patterns and stress levels can support you in making positive choices to enhance your sleep quality and vitality.
Listen now and start practicing preventive care!
Dr. Torkil Færø is a GP and emergency physician, documentary filmmaker, author and photographer. Over a 26- year career as a freelance doctor, he has worked all over Norway, had hundred thousand consultations and thus gained a unique picture of the diseases that plague us. He learned that the cause is most often found in the stresses our lifestyles place on our bodies. When his father died at 73, he realized that he had to change his own lifestyle. Being 40 pounds overweight, under-trained, over-stressed, under-slept and drinking alcohol daily, he learned that this lifestyle could deprive him of decades. Using wearables he found a way to track and regulate his nervous system and physiology.
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