Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Your Watch Knows You're Stressed (And It's Causing ED) #stress #heartrate #ed

19 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short clip from Anne Truong MD describing how wearable devices (Apple Watch, Oura Ring) can detect stress via heart rate and heart rate variability, sometimes flagging stress even when the person doesn't subjectively feel it; she uses these alerts to prompt breathing/meditation.

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But oftentimes, stress is not something that we measure objectively. And sometimes we don't even know that we're stressed as well. But stress shows up. If you have one of this, like, you know, Apple watch or those monitors, Stress shows up at increasing heart rate variance, which is the heart rate variability that you can see with stress. Even now, you're going to wear an aura ring, Oura ring like this, to monitor your stress level. And it'll tell you if you're stressed or not as well. And I wear this every day. And oftentimes it'll say, tell me, are you stressed right now? Your heart rate is high, and I don't even feel I'm stressed. So that's when I feel like I have to take a moment to breathe and to be in a meditative state.