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Amazing that you can get much the same functionality in a off brand $30 watch these days - at least monitors sleep and blood oxygen - although it explicitly doe

Amazing that you can get much the same functionality in a off brand $30 watch these days - at least monitors sleep and blood oxygen - although it explicitly does not do medical diagnosis. Still every senior should have one for many reasons.

TechDebtDevin 2y ago
I have extremely severe sleep apnea with 60-100 events per minute, and baseline blood oxygen is low to start with because I live at altitude. I'm very into wearables and have tested most of the top SpO2 capable watches and none of them detect my sleep apnea outside a very rare detection of low O2.
- tmoertel 2y ago
  > 60-100 events per minute Do you mean per hour?
emporas 2y ago
Sleep apnea is very easily fixed. You have to increase blood pressure on the head by a lot, for a little bit of time each day, half an hour to an hour and it is 100% fixable. Additionaly increasing blood pressure on the head helps for sleeping more. I do that and sleep for an average of 10 hours a day. 12 hours or 14 hours/day of sleep for me, is not rare either. Also increasing the blood pressure on the head helps fix myopia 100%, like that woman astronaut who returned to earth and her eyes worked perfectly again.
- dave333 2y ago
  Raising the foot end of the bed eg with a few thick books under the mattress is supposed to give health benefits by stopping the blood pooling in the lower legs where DVT blood clots most likely occur. Wondering if it also benefits by increasing blood pressure in the head?
  - emporas 2y ago
    Yep, exactly that, or similar. Use gravity to pull blood towards the head. It's not rocket science, although if you want to do that on space, you may need to learn a little bit of rocket science. In space that's the default situation. The heart pulses maniacally to keep blood circulating all around, but in no gravity places the legs are a pretty small organ, they don't need that much blood. So in space, a lot of blood ends up on the head. We can simulate that on earth for half an hour/day and it has numerous benefits.
- BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
  Wut? Never heard of this. How are you increasing blood pressure on your head? Are you hanging upside down?
  - emporas 2y ago
    >Are you hanging upside down? No, but that was a popular torture fathers did to kids some decades back. I know several people, all men, whom their fathers tied the legs to a rope and hung them upside down for some hours, when they were boys. Pretty funny! Much simpler actually. Just hung your head lower than your body, from a bed, a sofa, or even a motorcycle as much as you can, 10 minutes or half an hour. It is a good idea to exercise at the same time, your strongest muscle on your body, your jaw muscle, by chewing imaginary leaves. That will help blood to flow on the head much quicker, and much more of it as well. Back when we were monkeys, we chewed a lot of leaves. According to my estimations, we moved our jaw up and down, more than 10.000 times per day. That helped move blood up, towards the head, while nowadays we chew 100 times per day.
    - BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
      I’ll try anything once! Probably not the sleeping part, though, I elevate in the other direction because of heartburn…
  - codr7 2y ago
    There's a beginners pose in Yoga called The Clown that should be perfectly doable for most people. But getting fit enough for a regular headstand is a pretty solid investment from my experience.
- hombre_fatal 2y ago
  This doesn't make any sense. How is increased head pressure 30-60min a day going to change the fact that your soft tissue at the back of your throat closes the airway when you're sleeping?
  - emporas 2y ago
    It does make sense. Any other solution to clear out liquids from nasal airways doesn't make sense. Nasal sprays for example are total garbage. Measuring how much the airways are blocked doesn't make any sense either. The goal is to clear out stuff from the airways and there are several ways to achieve it, all of them much worse than what i describe. They all hover in 5% efficacy to 20% or 30% efficacy. The only other solution with such a high percentage of efficacy, is to chew 10.000 times a day, which is very inefficient. Monkeys when climbing on trees, turn upside down hundred times a day. People who climb trees and turn upside down hundred times a day, have no sleep apnea problems. Instead of climbing on trees, there is a way to simulate that effect on the industrial age.
mbirth 2y ago
I’d be VERY careful with those. There are cheap Chinese “smart watches” that simply show fake values for SpO2. People have put them on bananas and the watch still “took a reading” and showed oxygen saturation to be “95-100%”. With these watches, the LEDs at the bottom flicker, but there’s no sensor to take an actual reading.

TechDebtDevin 2y ago

I have extremely severe sleep apnea with 60-100 events per minute, and baseline blood oxygen is low to start with because I live at altitude. I'm very into wearables and have tested most of the top SpO2 capable watches and none of them detect my sleep apnea outside a very rare detection of low O2.

tmoertel 2y ago
> 60-100 events per minute Do you mean per hour?

emporas 2y ago

Sleep apnea is very easily fixed. You have to increase blood pressure on the head by a lot, for a little bit of time each day, half an hour to an hour and it is 100% fixable. Additionaly increasing blood pressure on the head helps for sleeping more. I do that and sleep for an average of 10 hours a day. 12 hours or 14 hours/day of sleep for me, is not rare either. Also increasing the blood pressure on the head helps fix myopia 100%, like that woman astronaut who returned to earth and her eyes worked perfectly again.

dave333 2y ago
Raising the foot end of the bed eg with a few thick books under the mattress is supposed to give health benefits by stopping the blood pooling in the lower legs where DVT blood clots most likely occur. Wondering if it also benefits by increasing blood pressure in the head?
- emporas 2y ago
  Yep, exactly that, or similar. Use gravity to pull blood towards the head. It's not rocket science, although if you want to do that on space, you may need to learn a little bit of rocket science. In space that's the default situation. The heart pulses maniacally to keep blood circulating all around, but in no gravity places the legs are a pretty small organ, they don't need that much blood. So in space, a lot of blood ends up on the head. We can simulate that on earth for half an hour/day and it has numerous benefits.
BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
Wut? Never heard of this. How are you increasing blood pressure on your head? Are you hanging upside down?
- emporas 2y ago
  >Are you hanging upside down? No, but that was a popular torture fathers did to kids some decades back. I know several people, all men, whom their fathers tied the legs to a rope and hung them upside down for some hours, when they were boys. Pretty funny! Much simpler actually. Just hung your head lower than your body, from a bed, a sofa, or even a motorcycle as much as you can, 10 minutes or half an hour. It is a good idea to exercise at the same time, your strongest muscle on your body, your jaw muscle, by chewing imaginary leaves. That will help blood to flow on the head much quicker, and much more of it as well. Back when we were monkeys, we chewed a lot of leaves. According to my estimations, we moved our jaw up and down, more than 10.000 times per day. That helped move blood up, towards the head, while nowadays we chew 100 times per day.
  - BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
    I’ll try anything once! Probably not the sleeping part, though, I elevate in the other direction because of heartburn…
- codr7 2y ago
  There's a beginners pose in Yoga called The Clown that should be perfectly doable for most people. But getting fit enough for a regular headstand is a pretty solid investment from my experience.
hombre_fatal 2y ago
This doesn't make any sense. How is increased head pressure 30-60min a day going to change the fact that your soft tissue at the back of your throat closes the airway when you're sleeping?
- emporas 2y ago
  It does make sense. Any other solution to clear out liquids from nasal airways doesn't make sense. Nasal sprays for example are total garbage. Measuring how much the airways are blocked doesn't make any sense either. The goal is to clear out stuff from the airways and there are several ways to achieve it, all of them much worse than what i describe. They all hover in 5% efficacy to 20% or 30% efficacy. The only other solution with such a high percentage of efficacy, is to chew 10.000 times a day, which is very inefficient. Monkeys when climbing on trees, turn upside down hundred times a day. People who climb trees and turn upside down hundred times a day, have no sleep apnea problems. Instead of climbing on trees, there is a way to simulate that effect on the industrial age.

mbirth 2y ago

I’d be VERY careful with those. There are cheap Chinese “smart watches” that simply show fake values for SpO2. People have put them on bananas and the watch still “took a reading” and showed oxygen saturation to be “95-100%”. With these watches, the LEDs at the bottom flicker, but there’s no sensor to take an actual reading.