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Sleep-tracking devices: Dos and don'ts
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Sleep tracker types
How to use data from your sleep tracker
Do: Use your sleep tracker for total sleep time and sleep habit goals
Don't: Use your sleep tracker for sleep quality
Do: Use your data to start a conversation with your doctor
Don't: Lose sleep over your sleep tracker
Don't: Use your sleep tracker for sleep quality
"Lend a critical eye to the sleep stage information you get from your device," says Rieck. A sleep tracker can make an educated guess about your sleep stages. But the only way to accurately identify what stage of sleep you are in is to measure brain activity during a clinical sleep study (polysomnography). None of the consumer devices on the market capture this kind of data.
