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Does tracking your sleep, steps, and nutrition actually make you healthier?
In this episode of Your Diet Sucks, Kylee and Zoë dive into the research on when activity trackers help and when they might hurt your health. Whether it's orthosomnia or jogging laps around the parking lot, we examine how the quest for optimization can undermine your well-being and how obsessively tracking your metrics and stats can actually lead to worse health outcomes - and even bad sex?!?
This podcast is supported by Microcosm Coaching and Fly Nutrition.
Does tracking your sleep, steps, and nutrition actually make you healthier?
In this episode of Your Diet Sucks, Kylee and Zoë dive into the research on when activity trackers help and when they might hurt your health. Whether it's orthosomnia or jogging laps around the parking lot, we examine how the quest for optimization can undermine your well-being and how obsessively tracking your metrics and stats can actually lead to worse health outcomes - and even bad sex?!?
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