- Hey guys, it's Justine!
And today I am really excited because this video
is gonna be really fun.
I have been wearing this for the past four, five months.
This is the Oura Ring.
So a huge thank you to Oura Ring for sponsoring this video
and partnering with me on this.
I wanted to make sure that this was something
that I absolutely love before even talking about
or sharing any of my thoughts with you guys.
And honestly, it has been so incredible and I'm so upset
with myself that I did not get one sooner.
Because I could've had years and years of sleep data
at my fingertips.
But instead I now have a little over four months of data.
And what's great though, is this could not have come
at a more perfect time because this is
the new Gen3 Oura Ring.
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It looks pretty cool, right?
Yeah.
Well, here's the thing.
This isn't just a ring.
It's actually a pretty high tech sleep tracking device
with 24/7 heart rate monitoring, period prediction,
possible illness detection, activity tracking,
blood oxygen sensing, with seven precise research grade
temperature sensors all inside this tiny little ring
that connects to an app that will give you very specific
data about your rest, recovery and how
to improve your sleep quality over time.
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If I could give you a pill and this pill would improve
your memory and your skin quality, it would help you
live longer, assist with muscle repair, fight off illness
and decrease blood pressure, would you take it?
Yeah, I would.
But here's the good and bad news, there is no magic pill
but what there is, is sleep.
And most of us don't get enough of it.
And what many people don't realize
is just how important sleep is.
Now of course we've all heard that you should make sure
that you're getting eight hours of rest a night
but what does that actually mean?
And how do I make sure that I'm getting enough sleep?
Am I getting the right kind of sleep?
What if I can't fall asleep?
Oh, hold on a second, I did sleep for eight hours
but I woke up even more exhausted.
These are all questions that I've had and I know
that many of you guys may have also had them as well.
So for the past few months, I have been wearing this ring
every single day.
This is the Oura Ring and it is honestly changed
my relationship with sleep.
Now you don't need this ring to start making changes
that can help improve your sleep.
But what this ring has done for me has actually made me
see the data of each night that I've slept, my total
time of sleep, my sleep efficiency, my restfulness,
how long I was in each sleep stage, and even
what my skin temperature was.
It also will then give me daily suggestions
of actionable items of things that I can do
to improve my sleep.
This is the new Gen3 Oura Ring which has a lot
of huge improvements over the previous one.
It has seven new temperature sensors, which are constantly
monitoring your body for even the smallest change
in skin temperature.
This will let you detect early signs of illness,
also period prediction, and it will assist with determining
your quality of sleep.
It also now has 24/7 heart rate and blood oxygen monitoring
to give you a complete look at how your body is responding
to sleep, stress and recovery.
All of this allows for the app to notice the subtle changes
and alert you that there might be a chance
that you're getting sick and to take it easy.
Some users have actually written in and shared their stories
that they spotted their COVID-19 symptoms with Oura first!
Now it's not gonna pop up and say,
"Hey, you have COVID.
Oh Justine, you've got the flu."
But being able to detect those subtle changes
in your skin temperature can alert you to take some action.
Like, "Okay, maybe I should go get a COVID test,"
or try to plan in a little extra rest this week
just in case you're coming down with something.
The Oura Ring team has also been working with researchers
at USCF to see how the ring signals can be used
for COVID-19 tools.
Most people don't even know what their baseline normal is.
And this takes a lot of the guesswork out of it.
This is a sleep tracking ring but I feel like it's become
so much more.
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So over the past few years,
I have pushed myself in training.
Most times I think I've ended up over-training
because I thought that's what I needed to do to get better.
It wasn't until a few injuries later
that I actually started prioritizing rest.
I had to heal so that I could continue
to perform not only in all of my activities
but just in daily life.
Even though this was unfortunately something that I kinda
had to figure out on my own by trial and error, injury,
physical exhaustion, and even making myself so sick
to the point that I had to take days off
because I was so exhausted.
But now I'm so much more aware of my recovery
with the Oura Readiness Score that this has been
so incredibly accurate to how I've been feeling.
And it lets me plan out when my best days are
to fully focus on being more active or when it's just time
to take it easy.
So these past few months for me, I haven't been able
to do as much fitness as I'd like due to a ton of work.
It is tech season and with travel and then I had
a knee injury so being able to take advantage of the days
that I'm fully rested and recover to focus on being
more active, those are the days that I try
to make fitness a priority.
(Justine and cameraman laugh)
So this also has automatic activity detection,
which is actually pretty accurate.
Now it might not always be able to tell exactly
what activity you're doing but it will pop up
with this little detection notice and you can go in
and choose exactly what that activity is.
This ring works so well with other fitness devices
like the Apple Watch or Fitbit.
Anything that allows you to pull in the health data,
you can automatically have that be imported into
the Oura Ring app.
And with this Gen3 version, I feel like this actually could
be a standalone ring to track your fitness.
But I really still do love having the added benefits
of the Apple Watch when I'm tracking my runs
or my strength training.
And also just being able to listen to music on the go
and having my messages automatically right here on my wrist,
I love all of that.
But it's great because all of that data is nicely imported
right here for you into the Oura Ring app.
Now charging this ring is super simple.
It comes with this little charging dock
that you just drop it onto.
But the battery life on this lasts about a week.
And it does charge super quick.
I just toss it on the charger anytime I feel like
I need a little ring break or a few times a week
when I get in the shower.
So if you guys are interested in checking these rings out,
I do have an ouraring.com/ijustine page, where you can go
and check that out to get all of the information
about this ring.
And you can also buy one.
What's kinda cool is when you do order one of these,
they send you a sizing kit that looks just like this.
It'll give you instructions to give you a proper fit.
You can choose the ring color and your size selection
on their website.
They've got gold, black, matte black and silver colors.
I'm a huge fan of gold jewelry and that's pretty much
all I ever wear so obviously I picked the gold ring.
One of the new things in the Gen3 ring is period prediction.
Women's health is so often overlooked and it drives me crazy
because this is such an amazing tool not only
for tracking periods, it can also be useful if you wanna
develop a better understanding of your menstrual cycle.
Those subtle changes in your body when you stray
from your normal means that something's up,
whether it's good, whether it's bad.
It's honestly so fascinating reading stories
of how this ring has helped so many people in so many
various aspects of their life.
There are times that I am unfortunately unable
to wear this and it makes me so sad.
Like when I am doing jiu-jitsu for example.
I will wear it for warmup or when we're doing some drills
and then I'll take it off when I'm actually rolling
so I don't accidentally hurt my partner.
What's great is I am able to go in after class and tag
that I was doing martial arts and it'll add it
into my activity for the day.
I did put in a very subtle, maybe not so subtle request
to the Oura Ring CEO, Harpreet Rai
to add a jiu-jitsu tag.
Please.
And from the whole jiu-jitsu community.
- Now that I think about it, we have a partnership with UFC.
Actually, now that you think about it, I think they'd
be super happy if we did that.
So thanks for calling it out for the community.
- Fingers crossed for that new activity.
Speaking of which, my sister and I got a chance
to chat with Harpreet all about Oura Ring,
his journey, leading the company into Gen3.
And he even gave us some sleep tips that can help all of us
start forming better habits when it comes to sleep.
- I have been such a horrible sleeper for probably
the past 10 years.
But now with the ring, I'm like actually starting
to analyze and like understand.
And I'm like, "Oh okay, like maybe there is something,"
like I need to have like a lifestyle change.
- It's interesting, right?
We sorta take sleep for granted.
All of our heads sort of hit the pillow and we sort of
just pass out.
We're actually unconscious, right?
We don't remember it.
We take it for granted.
And some of us just think, "Oh no, we're a poor sleeper."
But once you start to see some of that data and you're like,
"Wait no, I was up until 2:00 AM watching Netflix.
And the nights that I go to bed at seven or eight,"
or sorry, "eat dinner at seven or eight, go to bed
at 10 or 11 hey, I actually feel way better.
My data is higher," and able to then register
and quantify it.
"This was better for me, this is a better behavior.
I wanna feel better, I wanna be more productive.
I wanna be on top of my interviews the next day,"
whatever it may be.
- You can check out the full podcast
on youtube.com/samebrain.
Or you can look up Same Brain anywhere
that you listen to podcasts.
This ring is so small and light that I hardly even notice
that it's own during the day or while I'm sleeping.
Now I know the Apple Watch does have sleep tracking
but I just really don't like wearing something
around my wrist when I go to bed.
The Oura Ring's main focus is sleep.
So it is tracking your heart rate, HRV,
your body temperature and movements all throughout
the night to give you an estimate of just how you slept.
Every morning I sync my ring and I can get all
of these in-depth metrics of how my sleep was.
You can see on this particular night, I was awake
for 45 minutes, in REM for one hour 42 minutes,
light sleep for four hours 10 minutes, and deep sleep
for one hour 18 minutes.
There is a movement detection right here at the bottom
so around 2:30 AM this is where my dog woke me up
and wanted out of the bedroom.
So what did I do?
I woke up, let him out and fell back asleep.
So we have all of this information
but what can we do with it?
How can we improve?
Now this is what I love so much because you can click
into things like my recovery index here.
It is giving me an alert to pay attention.
This recovery index measures how long it takes
for your resting heart rate to stabilize during the night.
It gives you a suggestion that alcohol, a heavy meal
before bed can all have some negative effects on
your sleep and recovery.
And guess what?
Yeah, I ate a pretty large meal last night before bed.
And I knew like, as I was eating this that it was gonna play
a factor in my sleep quality.
Once you start learning and figure out how
these small things can affect your sleep, you're able
to adjust and make the changes.
With bedtime suggestions, you'll be able
to optimize the amount of sleep that you'll need
for a full night recovery the next day.
I have also used this as an excuse as to why I can't go out.
It's like, "Uh, hi, sorry.
My ring just told me that I need to go to sleep so I won't
be able to make it to that event."
Like I can freaking send my friends a screenshot.
Like, "Look, see.
Proof, I've gotta go to bed.
Bye!"
You'll also get some notifications of when it's time
to wind down so you can start preparing yourself for bed.
And a lot of these times I will be in the middle of working
or about to have dinner and this notification pops up.
And I'm like, "Oh shoot, it's almost time to go to sleep.
Um, hi, so I'm in the middle of something.
If like maybe you can just give me a few more minutes."
So it's times like that where I need to just kind of let go
and realize, "Okay, tonight might not be my best night
of sleep but I can try to plan for the rest of the week
to try to squeeze in some makeup sleeps."
It does feel like it sometimes becomes like
this Rubik's Cube type puzzle of how am I gonna make up
for the sleep that I failed to get last night?
So after you've gathered a few months of data,
the trend tab starts to get very interesting to look at.
And I wish that I would've had one of these rings
for years because that's so much sleep data
that I could've had.
But you can see here that I started wearing this in August
and you can see that my sleep score was very, very low.
Now, me and my sister were out working on a project
that required some crazy wake-up times and very late nights.
But being able to see this improvement month after month
is actually really cool.
My sister and I were in Hawaii and I was so nervous
because we were hiking and doing a ton of outside activities
that I was so worried that like my brand new ring
would get scratched.
And I'm very happy to report that it stayed
in really great condition.
Even after some extensive lightsaber battles
and climbing up mountains.
I do have the luxury of working from home and there are
times that I am able to squeeze in a nap during the day
if I'm feeling really exhausted.
This has automatic nap detection.
It's really cool because after I wake up from my nap,
it'll be able to detect it, it'll add it on to your sleep
and your readiness score.
And it honestly kinda feels like a real life video game.
I'm trying to hack my day to improve my energy levels.
We only get one life so we need to make the best of it.
And I just wish that I had started focusing more on my sleep
and healthy living way earlier in life.
I am so happy that now this has become a huge focus for me.
Just because I'm wearing this ring though, this isn't going
to magically make me be able to sleep better.
We have to listen to our bodies and actually take these
suggestions and then make the changes.
But what's great though, is when you actually find something
and you make that change for the better, you'll actually
be able to see the proof not only in the data,
but how you're starting to feel.
This goes back to my original question in the beginning
of this video, which I actually saw Harpreet ask
during an interview once.
If there was a pill that you could take to help you solve
all of these issues with your body, would you?
And the answer is such a simple one like we don't
need a pill, we just need more sleep.
Now I thankfully don't have issues falling asleep
but for me, it's making the time to do so or the bad choices
that lead up to going to bed.
Like I'm on my phone, I'm eating a huge meal before bed
or working out like an hour before it's time to go to sleep.
But for others, it's you can't shut your mind off
or you wake up multiple times during the night
and you're unable to fall back asleep, or you have kids,
a pet, or a partner that moves around too much.
There are so many factors that lead into
the why we don't get enough sleep.
So what are some things that we can do?
There are so many sleep resources online so I would suggest
doing some research and starting small.
trying to make some small changes here and there
and see what works for you.
Most importantly, try to eat or drink alcohol
at least three hours before bed.
Eating large meals right before you fall asleep,
can result in your heart rate spiking throughout the night
and this won't allow you to fully rest.
So I stopped drinking a few years ago but as for alcohol,
it can actually interrupt your sleep cycle in the middle of
the night because it'll begin to metabolize in your body.
Now on a typical night, you'll go through about four to six
sleep cycles and not all are the same length.
Oura's sleep interface makes it really simple
to track these cycles.
It uses awake, REM, light and deep sleep
to give you this visual representation of your night.
Waking up in the middle of a cycle can also
be really detrimental to your day.
If your body is naturally waking up before your alarm,
just get up and get moving.
Because trying to squeeze in those extra few minutes
might actually have a reverse effect.
So it's no secret that I am a caffeine queen.
I love coffee, I love yerba mate.
About a year and a half ago, I started limiting myself
to one coffee and one yerba mate and it has
to be before one or 2:00 PM.
So try to limit your caffeine and your naps
to earlier in the day, start setting an actual bedtime
and sticking to that schedule as much as possible.
I love using the iPhone bedtime to calculate how much sleep
I'll be able to get and adjust accordingly if I can.
I've found about seven hours or so
actually works best for me.
But I do like to set it for about seven and a half or eight
since I usually do wake up before my actual alarm.
This has taken me some time to kinda train my body
to be on this schedule.
I like to wake up around 5:30 or six every day.
So for you guys just start making small changes
in your routine and see what works.
There are some sleep sounds and meditations built into
the Oura app with more content that'll be coming out later.
Meditation might not be for everyone but if you haven't
tried it, I would definitely recommend giving it a shot.
Another huge factor is your sleeping environment.
I just recently got blackout curtains and it is
the best thing ever.
You might wanna try lighter bedding if you find yourself
overheating during the night, making small temperature
adjustments, adding some calming white noise.
Maybe it's loud outside so you could try some earplugs.
There are so many incredible online sleep resources
to get you guys started on your sleep journey
to better sleep and to better health.
Now Oura Ring has honestly helped me so much
and I've already learned so much about my body
that I never even knew.
And I am honestly so sad to admit this, that until
four months ago, I never knew that before your period,
your body temperature significantly decreases.
Like, what?
I'm how, how old am I now?
Like how did I not know that?
I love being active and having low energy is something
that I've always struggled with.
So pairing this ring with better food choices,
with more consistent workouts and trying
to follow an actual sleep schedule has been
so life changing.
So I hope that if you guys take away anything
from this video is how important it is
to prioritize your health over anything else.
Because if you guys can't be at your best for you,
how will you be the best for anyone else,
your work, your family, your friends?
I think we've all felt that feeling of complete burnout
and just absolute exhaustion.
And sometimes it's unavoidable due to travel or work
or family or whatever it is.
What we do to recover and move forward from that
can make all of the difference.
Thank you guys for watching.
This was really a special video for me to make
because I've been doing a ton of sleep research recently.
And I'm really excited to share this with you.
If you guys would like to get more information
or purchase one of your own, you guys can check out
ouraring.com/ijustine.
And if you already have one, feel free to screenshot me
those sleep scores, I would love to see them.
And with that, I'll see you guys in the next video.
Bye-bye!
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