3 ms·

I guessed before I got to the article this would be eightsleep, the smart mattress being shilled by half of the podcast / influencer community, alongside LMNT d

by sjw987 1y ago

I guessed before I got to the article this would be eightsleep, the smart mattress being shilled by half of the podcast / influencer community, alongside LMNT drink and Athletic Greens powder. All overpriced tat that is surplus to requirement. You don't need thousands of pounds of "smart mattress" to sleep. You need to stop staring at last nights REM/deep/light sleep split on your blue light emitting phone an hour before bed, do something relaxing, maybe take a warm shower an hour before bed, cool your sleeping room and slow your breathing as you lay down. Saved you ... £3000, and presumably some subscription. For the other two, eat healthier in general, and more green vegetables, respectively. I guess the mattress goes hand-in-hand with the current sleep tracking trend. Your Garmin, Oura, Whoop or Apple Watch cannot give you good analysis of your sleep based purely off of your heartrate. There is little to no backing for this one metric to prove a sleep score, or readiness score, and by paying attention to these laughably inaccurate scores you just placebo yourself into feeling worse (or better, but usually worse) about last nights sleep.

pathartl 1y ago
It's definitely overpriced and over engineered, but maintaining body temperature during sleep is a massive factor of sleep quality.
reorder9695 1y ago
To be fair the situation LMNT and alike is useful in isn't one where you just eat healthier in general, it's specifically useful when youre losing a lot of electrolytes usually during exercise, counterintuitively eating healthier may make that worse as healthier usually means less salt which is the primary electrolyte lost. LMNT and alike comes in there to replace electrolytes when needed without messing up your diet too badly, it's just 95% of the population don't exactly need this, but for people who do it's a genuinely valuable product.

by sjw987 1y ago

pathartl 1y ago

It's definitely overpriced and over engineered, but maintaining body temperature during sleep is a massive factor of sleep quality.

reorder9695 1y ago

To be fair the situation LMNT and alike is useful in isn't one where you just eat healthier in general, it's specifically useful when youre losing a lot of electrolytes usually during exercise, counterintuitively eating healthier may make that worse as healthier usually means less salt which is the primary electrolyte lost. LMNT and alike comes in there to replace electrolytes when needed without messing up your diet too badly, it's just 95% of the population don't exactly need this, but for people who do it's a genuinely valuable product.