How to Use a Sleep Tracker to (Actually) Improve Your Sleep

Sleep trackers come in all shapes and sizes -- you can wear them on your wrist, your finger, even around your head! Given the amount of data these deices track, it can be difficult to know what numbers and data points to pay attention to. Should we look at recovery scores? Sleep stages? What about our heart rates?
Join sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus as he describes what numbers we SHOULD be looking at in our sleep trackers, and how to use a tracker to best optimize our sleep.
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👩🏻‍💻 For Dr. Breus's tailored recommendations on getting your best sleep, take our Sleep Quiz at sleepdoctor.com/
0:00 Are sleep trackers worth it?
0:35 How accurate are sleep trackers?
2:13 Pay attention to deviations from your baseline
3:17 Wake-up time
4:16 Awakenings
5:13 Heart rate variability
6:00 Oxygen levels
6:23 Deep sleep
7:54 Heart rates
9:05 Temperature
9:50 Simplifying the data
11:14 Supplement with journaling
#sleeptracking #sleeptips #bettersleep
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[@lyndagabriel6539]

I watch a lot of YT videos (from professionals where possible), and this is one of the most valuable I've seen in a while. I'm about to get a sleep tracker (ring) and as a lifelong scientist, such tech and its data are only as good as my ability to understand what I'm seeing, including which aspects might be more accurate. And the part about heart rate is great; mine is really slow when I sleep.... I was an early Apple watch adopter, but I can't wear watches at night because they literally haptic me awake to tell me my HR is too slow! I learned so much from this video.... Thank you so much!

[@Altabozz]

Amazing info, what a great video. Thank you so much for this! ❤

[@littletime100]

Thanks for sharing,I have about had it with sleep apnea,I have tried for years with no success with masks but I also use oxygen with it. I hate going in for sleep studies at the clinic because I feel like I also sleep different there. I really need to get this fixed. My biggest problem too, is that I am a mouth breather. I subbed so hope by looking at your videos that I can learn and solve the problem. I wish I was closer to you. 🥰

[@SnowyMango]

Any sleep or tracking tips for a parent of a newborn? 😛

[@flemingg11]

That was a sneaky answer regarding the sleep score of 42. You know very well it’s the reverse that people are talking about.

[@Phaseish]

what product was he using for this?

[@barrylemon]

Oura ring or something like that

[@loreleidenton7000]

❤

[@gracie1283]

You never mentioned cannabis when you were mentioning substances that affect sleep. Does cannabis affect sleep in a positive or negative way? Does cannabis decrease the amount of REM sleep that you get? Does cannabis affect the amount of deep sleep that you get? Does cannabis cause light sleep? Would love to hear your thoughts on this. I have some very old friends like 85 years old that have smoked every single day for their whole lives and see pretty spry. I'm assuming that they're sleep is very affected by cannabis, but in which way?

[@TheSleepDoctor]

I have several videos and articles on Cannabis and Sleep

[@gnosis7662]

The part about the heart rate dropping below 50 bpm sounds totally unrealistic! Most people have a resting heart rate between 70 and 90 bpm. Anyone with a heart rate below 50 is considered an athlete!

[@SethKrieger]

And resting rate often goes down with age, as well as cardio fitness level.

[@Robyboscia]

Who is the guy?

[@andras8911]

I clicked on one of the hypnosis sleep KZbin videos and a little while after that I’m being stalked when I’m sleeping and my dreams are being hacked by a sleep hypnosis researcher! Now it’s a regularly happening when I’m sleeping I’m aware that someone joins my dream with hypnosis and keeps asking questions and stuff, and I can’t wake up for work. I believe this sleep hypnosis researcher is committing a crime and illegally doing a sleep hypnosis research on me. How do I catch him/her?!

[@hellothere-kv9kx]

go to a psych

[@hellothere-kv9kx]

this sounds like psychosis

[@nickelsworth7097]

Lay off the drugs