Health, Sleep Cycles and Your Readiness to Perform with Oura CEO Petteri Lahtela- EP050
We all know that quality is more important than quantity. But it’s tricky to determine quality when it comes to something like sleep. How restorative was the eight hours you got last night? Did that sleep allow your body to recover enough to do the training session you have scheduled for today?
Petteri Lahtela is a serial entrepreneur with 25 years of experience building high tech products and managing international businesses. Petteri’s passion for designing solutions that offer meaningful health benefits led him to create Oura, the world’s first wellness ring. Oura combines sophisticated design, ground-breaking technology and three decades of research to guide users in improving their sleep, health and readiness to perform.
Today Petteri describes the differences between the first generation Oura ring and the new version coming out in April. He covers Oura’s core use cases, what the ring measures, and what sets Oura apart from other wearables on the market. Petteri explains how athletes might utilize Oura to make better choices around training, nutrition and sleep. Listen in and learn about the ongoing research to validate Oura’s sleep cycle measurements and how it gives you vital information without becoming a disruption.
Topics Covered
[1:12] What inspired Petteri to develop the Oura ring- 14 years in mobile telecommunication
- Developed interest in preventing chronic disease
- Help people avoid symptoms of prolonged stress
- Understand body’s response to lifestyle
- Designed for comfort, sleek look
- Launched in December 2015
- Access to arteries in finger provides data
- Measures pulse waveform, HRV
- Data gathered overnight more accurate, meaningful
- Reveals long-term trends
- Pulse waveform, HRV
- Skin temperature variation
- Duration/intensity of activity
- Breathing rate/frequency
- Blood Pulse Volume
- Provides understanding of how body recovers
- Demonstrates how time, intensity of activity affects sleep
- Reveals connection between choices and body response
- User can adjust timing of activities based on data
- Message engine offers instructions re: how to improve
- Provides daily activity target, readiness score and sleep info
- Personalization aspect sets apart from other products
- Understand how exercise protocol affects sleep patterns
- Compare stage of training to body’s ability to recharge
- Align exercise, mealtimes and sleep with internal clock
- Document caloric intake, etc. in notes function of new version
- More important to understand how nutrition affects hormonal balance
- Consistent disruption of sleep signals imbalance of internal organs
- Accuracy confirmed by Stanford Research Institute independent study
- Ongoing work with university hospitals, sleep centers and research organizations
- Clinical studies to learn applications for different audiences
- Deep personalization to improve user recovery, performance
- Further insight around menstrual cycle, activity to pursue/avoid
- Works without Wi-Fi
- Sends data to app a few times per day
- Wearables shouldn’t require attention, interaction
- Free access to data via Cloud interface
- May share with doctor, coach
Learn More About Petteri
Resources
The Power of When by Michael Breus
Stanford Research Institute’s Independent Validity Study
California Center for Sleep Disorders
Unplugged by Brian MacKenzie, Andy Galpin and Phil White
Discount on the Oura Ring
Go to Oura Ring and add to cart then enter the voucher “Alifitness”
