Sleep architectureSleepmaxxing built an industry on top of advice that costs nothing
The trend brought welcome attention to rest. It also stacked genuinely supported practices with unsupported ones and sold the whole bundle at once.
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The structure of a night's sleep, how it is measured, and where consumer estimates diverge from the laboratory methods they are validated against.
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Sleep architectureOrthosomnia: when tracking your sleep starts damaging it
Clinicians have been describing this for years. The trend that made sleep tracking universal made the problem larger.
Sleep architectureRegularity beats duration, and the cohort data is unusually clear
Irregular sleep timing is associated with cardiovascular events independently of how long people sleep. It is also the cheapest thing to fix.
Sleep architectureWhat a sleep tracker can measure, and what it is guessing
Different sensors answer different questions. Knowing which is which prevents most misreadings.