The smart ring that changes the way women manage their health

It opens your eyes to how you sleep.

Maybe you think you’re sleeping well, but you’re exhausted by the afternoon. Or maybe you know you’re having trouble closing your eyes, but you’re not sure you want to know the details. In both cases, there are real benefits to understanding the nuances of our sleep. And in an age where there are countless wearable devices (even mattress pads!) designed to monitor sleep, the Oura Ring is among the best. A study recently published in the journal Sensors found that the Oura ring is more accurate than a popular smartwatch and fitness wearable for tracking sleep – not to mention that a ring can be much more comfortable for sleeping than a bracelet. Oura’s nighttime data provides a bird’s-eye view of the overall quality of your sleep, as well as details about how you’re doing during specific sleep stages (light, deep, REM). To address sub-optimal patterns, the Oura app provides personalized, actionable tips. For example, using the bedtime guidance feature, it can suggest your optimal bedtime and morning alarm time. Oura also offers a Body Clock feature, which provides sleep schedule recommendations based on your chronotype (your body’s inherent biological alertness at different hours). When you wake up in the morning, you can check your readiness and sleep metrics to see if you’re optimally rested for the day (or should still leave some time for sleep). Oura also allows you to observe how the adjustment of certain variables, such as: The timing of your afternoon coffee or workout can impact the quality of your sleep – which can encourage you to stick to healthy new habits.

It gives you an honest look at your stress levels.

Some days we know we are extremely stressed, but most of the time the feeling can be insidious or fleeting. It’s this hidden stress that often wears us down and undermines our health goals. Wearing an Oura ring allows you to take a step back and observe the rhythm of your daily stress, which can be a powerful catalyst for finding ways to address or balance it. How exactly does Oura Ring detect your stress? It uses a combination of biometric clues such as a faster resting heart rate and breathing rate, lower than usual heart rate variability (HRV), and/or a decrease in your peripheral body temperature trends in combination with movement data. In the app, you can easily see when you’re in each of four states: stressed, engaged, relaxed, and recovered (that last one sounds so ambitious).