Tag: sleep trackers

How Your Sleep Patterns Change Can Tell You About Your Health

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Your sleep tracker might give you information about more than just your sleep–specifically, it might give you information about chronic conditions such as diabetes and sleep apnea, and illnesses such as COVID-19. This is one of the findings of a study that analyzed data from 5 million nights of sleep across roughly 33,000 people.

Trouble falling asleep at night? Chase that daytime light, study shows

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A new study reports that college students in Seattle fall asleep later and wake up later in winter, likely because — as the study also found — in winter the students received less daylight exposure. The researcher say that outside in the morning, even on cloudy days, is the best way to prevent this circadian rhythm “delay.”