Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

Sleep. It's the one, if not the most essential aspect of health and longevity.

Yeah, it's true. Yet 65% of American adults say they rarely wake up feeling rested and energize 65%.

And 42% they feel tired as early as noon. Sound relatable? Well, what if I told you that the key to optimizing your sleep and therefore your energy and health was as easy as wearing a ring on your finger?

Yeah, I'm serious. Thanks to advanced wearable sleep tracking devices like the Aura Ring, millions of people like myself. There it is right there.

Our gaining personalized meaningful health insights to help them sleep better than ever. And today, my guest and I are going to talk all about it.

He's Dr. Shimal Patel, the head of sciences at Aura, where he focuses on the research and development of algorithms that translate censored data into accurate measures of health and well-being.

After a quick break, we'll talk about all things sleep, including how much you should really be getting and tips for falling and staying asleep.

We'll also dive into the science behind the Aura Ring and share how it could help you completely transform your health. We'll be right back.

Can you give the listeners a brief introduction of the ring and how it works?

So just a brief history of Aura, Aura was founded in Finland in 2013. We are on our generation three product now.

Generation one ring was launched in 2015. Gen two was launched in 2017. And Gen three, our latest product was launched in late 2021.

Aura Ring is, as Dr. Gundri just showed and I have a couple on my fingers, is essentially a wearable ring. It weighs about four grams and has a suite of sensors packed into it.

And these sensors are integrated into the Aura Ring to measure different aspects of your physiology. So there are three LEDs, three LEDs with three different wavelengths in the ring, red, green and infrared.

These are in the ring for different types of measurements of your blood, essentially, that is flowing through your arteries.

We have an accelerometer and a gyroscope, which measure your movement in three dimensions. And we also have seven temperature sensors that make very high resolution measurements of your body temperature 24-7.

And the sort of the foundational or the most sort of the first things you would experience if you had an Aura Ring would be these three scores.

They are readiness, sleep and activity. And readiness is essentially a score that tells you how ready are you for the day? Are you well rested? Are you ready for pushing yourself or should you take it easy today?

It's essentially a guy for you that tells you how you might want to go through your day and also helps you understand what are the factors that contribute to how you are feeling today.

Sleep being one of them. Sleep is the second score, sleep score. It tells you basically how well you slept last night.

And that includes a bunch of different things. How much time you spent sleeping, the total time that you gave yourself the opportunity to sleep, how efficient your sleep was, what was your sleep restful, how much to REM sleep did you get, how much sleep did you get, did it take you a long time to fall asleep?

And was a timing of your sleep aligned with your circadian rhythm. So these are all these factors that contribute to the sleep score. And it essentially tells you how you're doing with respect to sleep and what are the things you can perhaps improve the sleep in your sleep next night.

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