Fortune January 25, 2024
Not sure if it’s time for stress management? Check your watch.
Toxic stress during the pandemic has fueled a wave of new stress management trackers. Offered in health monitoring devices by companies such as Fitbit, WHOOP, Oura Ring, Samsung, Garmin, and others, they aim to make users more cognizant of stress and learn tools for handling it.
Measuring stress
These trackers collect information on metrics such as heart rate, skin temperature, and sleep quality through cutting-edge sensors in smartwatches, wristbands, and rings. They also continuously assess heart rate variability, or HRV, which is the balance between the body’s systems for ramping up to a challenge and slowing down to rest.
Some, such as Google’s Fitbit and Pixel, measure electrical changes...
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