{"id":26017,"date":"2019-07-19T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26017"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:34:35","slug":"the-sad-truth-about-sleep-tracking-devices-and-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/the-sad-truth-about-sleep-tracking-devices-and-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad Truth About Sleep-Tracking Devices and Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/17\/technology\/personaltech\/sleep-tracking-devices-apps.html\">Brian X. Chen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/17\/technology\/personaltech\/sleep-tracking-devices-apps.html\">\n<p>Ultimately, the technology did not help me sleep more. It didn&rsquo;t reveal anything that I didn&rsquo;t already know, which is that I average about five and a half hours of slumber a night. And the data did not help me answer what I should do about my particular sleep problems. In fact, I&rsquo;ve felt grumpier since I started these tests.<\/p>\n<p>That mirrored the conclusions of a recent study from Rush University Medical College and Northwestern University&rsquo;s Feinberg School of Medicine. Researchers there noticed patients complaining about sleep data collected by apps and devices from Nike, Apple, Fitbit and others.<\/p>\n<p>In their study, the researchers warned that sleep-tracking tech could provide inaccurate data and worsen insomnia by making people obsessed with achieving perfect slumber, a condition they called orthosomnia. It was one of the latest pieces of research supporting the idea that health apps don&rsquo;t necessarily make people healthier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian X. Chen: Ultimately, the technology did not help me sleep more. It didn&rsquo;t reveal anything that I didn&rsquo;t already know, which is that I average about five and a half hours of slumber a night. And the data did not help me answer what I should do about my particular sleep problems. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-07-19T20:34:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"7d44815e-291a-4f83-a8d3-4b728ed6b854","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-19T20:34:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfUSBXikaT4Oo00tyjta4VA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[992,1634,920,1841],"class_list":["post-26017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-watch","tag-fitbit","tag-healthkit","tag-sleep"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26018,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017\/revisions\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}