Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Sleep Hacks | The Importance of Monitoring Your Sleep for Better Health

19 Jul 2024 · 0 min

Watch on YouTube

0:23

Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) explains how monitoring sleep with consumer devices can reveal disruptions such as oxygen drops and failures in the normal overnight body cooling. He states that during good, relaxed sleep body temperature typically drops about 1–1.5°F (or degree) and that lack of this cooling indicates poor sleep and impaired resetting of hormones and the immune system. The clip focuses on physiological markers (oxygen levels, body temperature) as indicators of sleep quality.

If you're sleeping adequately, you won't have a lot of disruptions in your sleep and your oxygen level won't drop. The other thing you can actually unlock with these devices is your body temperature. When your body's in a good relaxed state, your body temperature rack should actually drop about a degree or a degree and a half when you sleep at night. If you're not getting good sleep, if you're not, your body's not cooling, which is a part of resetting your hormones in your immune system, you can pick that up.