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No one needs a sleep tracker to get great sleep. In fact, what they really need is bedtime consistency, exercise during the day, and not too heavy a meal nor too many drinks before bed. Regardless, sleep trackers like the Oura Ring 4 allow sleepers to see their behaviors and choices ahead of bedtime to understand how those choices impact sleep.
Several Oura Ring users say wearing the smart ring has helped them change some of their poorer sleep habits, like drinking too much alcohol before bedtime, because the ring monitors a user’s heart rate, heart rate variability, body temperature, and respiratory rate, and shows users how these vitals are affected by alcohol or a later night. It’s certainly helped me curb my poorer habits. Plus, it shows me the benefits of the good ones, like how much calmer I am when I read before bedtime.
Also: I should’ve listened to my Oura Ring when it warned me about my health
The Oura Ring app delivers a few scores each morning: your Sleep Score, your Readiness Score, and yesterday’s Activity Score. You can also tap into each score to understand its contributors, such as resting heart rate data during sleep. It’s also become useful as a prognosticator of illness. It correctly detected two recent colds I’ve had, and it lets me know one or even two days in advance.
