#163

The ring, available now in the US for $249 via Reebok, marks the first time a major traditional fitness brand has launched its own dedicated smart ring hardware.

However, accessing the complete array of insights requires an ongoing subscription to the Reebok Fitness App. The ring purchase includes the first year free, although the renewal costs $99 per year thereafter.

and the Reebok website:

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#164

This reminds me to share a new benefit if you have an American Express Platinum card.

If you enroll, it will give you a $200 credit for a new Oura ring.

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#165

I’ve given up on the Somnee device.
I’ve experienced no benefit in almost 3 weeks of use.
Might even make my 2nd phase of sleep worse.

The device ought to have fully calibrated to my brain (or so they claim), so not much excuse for it not to work properly.

I have serious questions about the accuracy of what it reports.
While claiming to more accurately measure sleep phases, it comes in so off both what my Oura ring reports and what I subjectively feel as to lack credibility.

Poor UI design. Designed to look “pretty” rather than provide a clear representation of data.
Buggy. Sometimes works as expected. Often doesn’t.

No meaningful documentation of even how to use the device.

Electrodes delaminate.

I really wish it would work.

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#166

Thanks for this. You saved me some cash. :slight_smile:

#167

SomniResonance SR1

In my search for devices that can actually help with sleep, I ordered a SomniResonance SR1 (sometimes referred to as a “Delta Sleeper”:

I’ve know about this device for 7 or 8 years. I originally heard about it via Ben Greenfield. He has a number of posts on it.

Background

The device uses low intensity PEMF targeted to your vagal nerve (which signals back to your brain).
When I first became aware of it, it sold for about $500; now $199.

Using the device requires double sided adhesive strips, which the company sells in packs of 30 for $8.50, so one does have an ongoing cost. They send a pack of 30 with the purchase of the device.

Returns possible within 30 days, but it has a $50 “restocking” fee.

One places the device just below the collar bone (either side) close to the hollow between the pectoral muscle and the deltoid.

Some users place it their foreheads.

The device has a single button, no other controls, no connection to an app.
It does one thing.

Pressing the button starts a 22 minute session which the maker claims stimulates delta waves in your brain which enable you to fall asleep faster.

If you wake in the night you can press the button again for another 22 minute session.
You can also use it for naps.

Experience

I’ve used it over 4 nights.
I’ve done as many of 3 sessions in a night.
Small. Easy to wear. Doesn’t interfere with back or side sleeping positions.

Over the first 3 nights, my sleep seemed to improve but not too much.

Night four I had the best (as measured by my Oura ring) night’s sleep I’ve had to 2 months.

Quicker to fall asleep.
Quicker to fall back to sleep.
Far shorter periods awake during the night.
More deep sleep.
More REM sleep.
More sleep.

Early day’s. I report back in a week or so.

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#168

I have terrible sleep, so since I can easily afford this device I just ordered one. I hope it works even if it’s only a placebo effect. :pill:

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#169

My Delta Sleeper SR1 should arrive next week. Looking forward to improved sleep. :crossed_fingers:

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#170

It arrived and I wore it for two consecutive nights. I noticed no benefit from it. I would not recommend it to anyone else. I wasted my money, you shouldn’t.

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#171

Make certain you have a fully charged battery and that you placed it correctly.
My experience over the past week (subjective and Oura ring measured), which I reported previously:

  • Quicker to fall asleep.
  • Quicker to fall back to sleep.
  • Far shorter periods awake during the night.
  • More deep sleep.
  • More REM sleep.
  • More sleep.

This has kept up. Modest improvements, but far more than I’ve realized with the Somnee or Elemind.

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#172

The SR1 was placed properly and the battery was brand new.

I rarely, if ever, have trouble falling asleep. I exercise between 2 and 3 hours a day, doing cardio and strength training exercises. So I am tired by the end of the day.

I typically go to bed between 9:30p and 10:15p. I wake up multiple times during the night to pee. I’m 75 have and BPH. I go back to sleep quickly each time I waken during the night.

I am wide awake between 3a and 4a. On a rare night I might make it to 4:30a. So that is when I begin the day. This has been my sleep experience for many years.

According to my Garmin Index Sleep Monitor, which I where nightly, I get lots of deep sleep but my REM cycles are short. And, of course, I don’t get 7 hours, ever!

Perhaps your experience is a placebo effect, which is great when it works. For me, the SR1 was just another gadget that I wasted money buying. Not the first time I’ve done that and definitely not the last time either!

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#173

Is Peter Attia no longer bullish on rapamycin? Huberman thinks so in this podcast. Time stamp 1.10

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#174

Nah - Huberman just says he hasn’t talked to Attia in a while, but that others he knows (perhaps more driven by Bryan Johnson more than anything) have stopped or paused rapamycin. And as David Fajgenbaum says “it can’t be based on any human data, because there isn’t any”…

And even the animal data keeps getting better and better.

I suspect the biggest issue is there is no simple way to measure if rapamycin is helping you. More a problem with the current tools / measures, than the an issue with rapamycin.

If you follow the research closely and read it here at this site, you know that virtually all the research over the past decade has been extremely positive; far, far better than any other drug out there. Rapamycin is still the most powerful, well-validated longevity drug out there…

Not that it will work for everyone, but its the best bet we have out there.

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#175

Yes it is.

I think they ought to test old people, before and after rapamycin for several months. Old people’s blood work tends to be out of whack. What you would see after rapamycin, from my experience, is a trend towards normalization.
In young or healthy people it would be hard to track as the benefits for them would not show up until years later matched against other people in their age group.

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#176

Only by testing old people, and I mean 75 years and older, will we be able to see the results of rapamycin in a reasonable amount of time, maybe years instead of decades, especially in areas of brain function and things like sarcopenia.
Sorry, I appreciate Dr. Stanfield’s study, but it is too short, underdosed, and has too few participants for it to be of any interest to me.
Somebody, maybe tech billionaires, should step up to the plate and finance a reasonable study.

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#177

Meanwhile, in the wearables market:

Wearables are no longer just counting steps or measuring heart rates—they’re also starting to bring diagnostics and healthcare services directly to consumers. Oura’s latest “Health Panels” feature lets ring users schedule a 50-biomarker blood test through its app, while WHOOP users can now purchase lab tests, schedule appointments, and receive results also all within the app. Alongside its own blood panel offering, Ultrahuman is evolving past patent challenges with “Vision Cloud," allowing users to upload any blood test result and receive AI-enabled personalized guidance in return.

In parallel, at-home devices are making their way into new places altogether: Withings now offers a toilet-mounted urine scanner that tracks hydration and nutrients, while Kohler’s latest smart toilet camera analyzes waste for gut health insights. These innovations embed health monitoring more seamlessly into everyday routines—giving consumers unprecedented visibility into their health. But to fully bridge the gap between consumer health insights and clinical decision-making, innovators must work to build the infrastructure that brings personalized data into the hands of providers. A fully connected care experience, from your wrist and your toilet to your doctor, may be just around the bend.

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#178

You can also buy lab tests (probably the same ones the wearables are selling), without a doctor’s order, but without insurance paying from Labcorp, Quest, Walk-in-Lab, Life Extension and probably other sites. I have done this regularly to get periodic assessments of my health. If you can afford it, I think it is highly worth it.

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#179

Maybe. Happy to take it a win.

Again, maybe. I had some questions and called the company. I left a message the first time, then rang a second and the guy picked up the phone.

I found him helpful and knowledgeable about the technology,

Call won’t cost you anything but a little time. He might help you to get the device to work for you.

#180

Thanks for the advice.

#181

In the event you didn’t see the thread that talks about options for getting labs, just wanted to share that Good Labs is drastically less expensive than if you buy labs from Quest. Fitnomics is another great low cost source but they require a membership.

#182

Great to know this. Thanks!!!

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