Its pretty wild how much tech we carry around nowadays without even thinking about what its actually tracking behind the scenes. A few years ago your watch just told you the time or maybe had a basic stopwatch function if you were fancy, but now you have a screen strapped to your wrist that’s constantly monitoring your heart rate and counting your steps and tracking exactly how long you spend in deep sleep. People get obsessed with closing their activity rings or hitting their step goals, but if you spend your entire working day glued to an office chair then that’s not a bad thing. It gives you this a detailed insight into how your body actually functions and some good baseline data if you get sick and need to compare.
Tracking
You can literally watch your resting heart rate drop over a few months as you get fitter, or get a proper reality check when you see how a couple of drinks on a Friday night absolutely wreck your sleep quality for the rest of the weekend. some people who get a bit paranoid about having all these wireless signals wrapped around their skin twenty four hours a day but the actual science is completely clear that wireless doesnt affect your health at all so you can just leave it on and stop stressing.
Online health
The days of sitting in a freezing waiting room for forty five minutes just to get a routine prescription are pretty much over. Thank god. Telehealth has completely changed how we deal with being sick and now you can just jump on a video call on your phone while youre sitting on the sofa in your tracksuits to show a GP a rash or talk through a new medication. There are pros and cons to online doctors but for a lot of cases, the convenience and the GPs being able to fit more appointments into their day (reducing waiting times) makes it worth it. It also means that people that live far away from doctors like in rural areas are able to have good access to medical help. You always have the option of arranging a face to face appointment if you need to, but the change in making a lot of health services online has been really beneficial.
Convenience
You can even do proper therapy sessions online or check your own blood test results through a patient portal instead of waiting a week for a busy receptionist to call you back with the news. Having that kind of access completely changes how you view your own health because you actually own your information. It just makes the whole medical system feel way more joined up and convenient since everything is sitting right there in your pocket.
