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Pursuing Health

Using Wearables to Improve Health, Recovery & Performance PH221

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Healthcare practitioners and wearables experts provide insights on several different types of wearable devices for CrossFit and health, including trackers for workouts, sleep, recovery, and blood glucose. The panelists share the most useful metrics to track, why personalized data and experimentation are so crucial for improving health and performance, and actionable tips individuals can use to improve their biometrics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What am I doing to ground my choices in data?

0:03.2

Everything I do is based on emotion

0:04.8

or like what I saw someone else doing at the gym.

0:06.6

There was nothing objective.

0:08.4

And at the same time, I'm in a very stressful part

0:11.5

of my career and feeling burnout coming on quickly.

0:16.1

Like I was having these fatigue episodes.

0:17.8

I would have very, very, like basically mood disorder.

0:21.6

Like I would just be irritable.

0:22.8

I would want to go home.

0:23.6

I would want to crawl under my desk and sleep.

0:25.4

All these things that were strange to me

0:26.8

and couldn't be explained because I was

0:28.6

in pretty good physical shape.

0:30.3

I spoke to one of the doctors that was on the program with me

0:33.6

and they recommended that I start tracking my blood sugar.

0:36.2

So I got a finger prick device.

0:38.0

I started pricking my finger obsessively

0:40.0

and tracking it in an Excel spreadsheet.

0:42.6

And it wasn't very useful to me.

0:44.2

And then I read about CGM

0:45.8

and in Rob Wolf's book, actually, Why Are To Eat.

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