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Our physical and mental health are intrinsically connected, which is why it’s vital to consider both when we aim to improve our health. Most of us know the things we should be doing to feel better in body and mind; however, it’s not always simple. Smart technology has become a huge part of our lives, affecting our work, leisure time, and even how we interact and meet new people. When it comes to health and wellbeing, smart tech has plenty to offer us. For a few ideas to get you started on a techy health journey, consider these six options.
Smart Watches
A smartwatch can be beneficial for your health in several ways. First off, smartwatches can track your resting heart rate. Data like this can help you keep track of your heart’s health, or avoid injuring yourself during a workout. Using a smartwatch, you can review your exercise progress, use a fitness planner, and use the data to set yourself goals. Smartwatches are also useful to track your sleeping patterns.
Smart Air Purifiers
Conventional air purifiers function to rid the air of harmful airborne substances, including gases, viruses, bacteria, dust, mold, or pollen. It’s particles like this, which can lead to respiratory problems or sickness. Air purifiers are great, yet they won’t tell you which of these harmful substances circulate in your air, or how often. Smart air purifiers can clean your indoor air and offer you all of this data too. These purifiers will track which toxins are inhabiting the air of your home and send you info in real-time.
Femtech
Femtech refers to technology for females specifically. Much of this technology has arrived in the form of apps designed to support female fertility, gynecology, or menstruation. One example of a femtech company is Innie, who have produced a hormone tracker for fertility. It’s a non-invasive salvia based tracker which does not alter natural hormone levels, but instead tracks the natural rhythms of the body. Ferly is an app that focuses on self care and mindfulness. The app encourages users to enhance their well being, challenge insecurities, and ease stress with mindfulness practices. There are many other femtech companies out there, including Elvie, Bonzun, and Cora.
Fitness Apps
There are plenty of fitness apps that you can use to perfect your exercise regime and make progress. One example is C25K which stands for ‘couch potato to 5K’.
It’s an eight-week program designed to help novice runners train and complete a 5K run. Sweat is another great fitness app, brought to you by fitness influencer Kayla Itsines. The app offers users both low-intensity and high-intensity workouts, plus meal plans and challenges. With the convenience of a fitness app, you can live a healthier lifestyle.
Smart Scales
Many people find it beneficial to track their weight to stay on a healthy path. It’s handy to know your weight and BMI; however, it’s also valuable to have data on body fat or muscle mass. Calculating your body fat vs. mass muscle mass will help you to get more accurate data to inform your fitness regime. Smart scales can provide you with this information. QardioBase, for example, is a smart scale that provides info on muscle mass, bone mass, body fat, heart rate, and water percentage.
Smartphone Hearing Aids
Those with hearing problems can benefit from smartphone hearing aids. With smart hearing aids, you know longer have to be worried about battery life. These hearing aids use Bluetooth technology to connect to many devices, including doorbells, smartphones, TVs, and smoke alarms. With these technologies, your hearing aids are transformed into headsets with high-definition capabilities. All your listening experiences become seamless, and the sound quality is also improved.
Muse Headband
The Muse Headband is an EEG based device that monitors your brain activity and guides you through a meditation sequence. Meditation has been praised for many years as a way to reduce stress levels and enhance well being. With this tech-based meditation headband, users can take their stress reduction to the next level. Muse works by representing your body and brain activity with weather soundtracks to help you feel peaceful. If your mind is chaotic and busy, you’ll hear stormy weather. You can practice calming the weather with a series of meditative exercises. There are many other meditation-based apps available, including Headspace, Calm, and Happify- which is a self-care application.
As technology advances further we are likely to have many more smart-health options in the years to come.
