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The global fitness tracker market hit $62 billion in 2024. A randomized controlled trial found zero improvement in weight, blood pressure, or quality of life after a year of tracker use. The industry built a $62 billion market on the gap between measuring behavior and changing it.
By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read
Wearable sleep trackers are a $16 billion industry built on a technology that can reliably count how long you slept but routinely fails to tell you what kind of sleep you got. Researchers now have a clinical term for what happens when you trust the score too much: orthosomnia. The fix is free.
By Maya Okafor · 4 min read
The OTC glucose monitor market hit $370 million in 2024, and healthy people are now strapping biosensors to their arms in the name of wellness. But the research on behavior change in non-diabetics is thin, short-term, and full of caveats. Here is what the evidence actually says, and what to do instead.
By Maya Okafor · 4 min read
The wearable medical device market hit $67 billion in 2026. A peer-reviewed study of 536 sleep nights finally tells us which devices actually measure HRV accurately. Here's how to build the monitoring stack that makes your annual physical look prehistoric.
By Kai Brighton · 4 min read