This thread is to discuss quantified self. Maybe I'm not the only one wanting to measure, understand and improve myself. This topic encapsulates all kinds of things from food/diet to exercise to sleep to stress management,... etc. Anything that can (potentially) improve/worsen life quality and/or life expectancy.
One of the most interesting things I have been doing lately is measuring heart rate variability(HRV), sleep and sleep quality. For sleep quality biggest thing I have found out is that blocking blue light at least for me has significant effect on sleep quality and ease of falling asleep. I got an Oura ring and using it I saw I get almost no deep sleep(0-30min night). After googling around how to increase deep sleep I bought blue light blocking glasses and I wear them now 2 hours in the evening before sleeping. Filtering out blue light has doubled deep sleep as measured by oura. Blocking blue light also makes me super tired which makes falling asleep easier.
Are there other people experimenting with things for self improvement, feeling happier, sleeping better, recovering better from exercise, living longer etc? What kind of things are you doing and how are you measuring improvement? HRV is one thing I'm now super interested in and I'm following how different things I do affect HRV. I'm also actively working to improve HRV.
For reference this is the device I use for measuring sleep and heart rate variability(HRV)
One of the most interesting things I have been doing lately is measuring heart rate variability(HRV), sleep and sleep quality. For sleep quality biggest thing I have found out is that blocking blue light at least for me has significant effect on sleep quality and ease of falling asleep. I got an Oura ring and using it I saw I get almost no deep sleep(0-30min night). After googling around how to increase deep sleep I bought blue light blocking glasses and I wear them now 2 hours in the evening before sleeping. Filtering out blue light has doubled deep sleep as measured by oura. Blocking blue light also makes me super tired which makes falling asleep easier.
Are there other people experimenting with things for self improvement, feeling happier, sleeping better, recovering better from exercise, living longer etc? What kind of things are you doing and how are you measuring improvement? HRV is one thing I'm now super interested in and I'm following how different things I do affect HRV. I'm also actively working to improve HRV.
For reference this is the device I use for measuring sleep and heart rate variability(HRV)
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