Kategorie: Health
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airfect Sleep Systems – Genius Marketing Strategy?
Never change a winning team, is what they say, but sometimes the odds are against you and in my case: My go-to hotel for business trips was fully booked, so I needed to pick a new one. I choose the one closest to my workplace, which also happens to be…
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Lowering Lipoprotein(a)
I can’t say whether my Lipoprotein(a) levels have ever been measured before my first acknowledgement of it in 2019. But first things first: what is Lipoprotein(a)? In short, Lipoprotein(a) is a substance built in the liver to transport fat within the blood. Or, in other and more complicated words: Lipoprotein(a)…
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COVID-19 with the Oura Ring
My Oura ring has been my go-to smart gadget tracking a ton of data for more than 18 months. Most of the time, it has been smooth sailing and the Oura ring and I were on a challenge to finally get a Sleep score of 100. Well, that challenge has…
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You may want to consider upgrading to the Oura Ring Gen 3
Since its release in autumn 2021, I have been wearing the new Oura Ring Generation 3 (=Gen 3) constantly – 260 nights and days, to be precise. While I intended to give an update on the new features earlier, I needed to wait as some of the more significant changes…
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Abbott FreeStyle Libre 3
Even though Abbott started to sell their updated Continuous Glucose Monitor (=CGM) FreeStyle Libre 3 in August 2021 already, I only recently got my hands on it. I was excited to learn more about the enhancements coming with the new model after I had tested their previous model -the FreeStyle Libre 2-…
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Lurking Opportunities
Opportunities lurk everywhere, and most of them remain ignored as we are too busy and too biased to acknowledge them. Furthermore, the quality of opportunities seems to depend on one’s attitude: If you are bitter about the world and expecting people to betray you, you might not get the same…
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Deep Ketosis Challenge
During the late summer and autumn, I found a fasting balance of approximately 14 hours per day. It felt like a good and solid schedule while being a bit boring at the same time. Well, well, well. The boring times are over now 🥳 Coming out of a relaxed period,…
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Just Another Fitness Hype?
When Apple offered me to trial their new Fitness+ offering, I couldn´t resist and gave it a try. Find out whether I think it is worth it.
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The Tale of Healthy Food
Like most tales, the tale of healthy food is a nice little story with exciting ups and downs, magical heroes, and malevolent villains. The tale has many different authors, and most of us don’t exactly know who is the author of which section. While the tale has been narrated many…
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The Oura Ring Generation 3 Communications fail
It was late October 2021 when Oura announced the release of their new Generation 3 ring. No question, I was excited about it. There were already rumors about a new ring when I initially planned to order my Oura ring back in the summer of this year. For me, it…
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This is why you should buy an Oura ring
This article talks about the Oura ring Generation 2. A couple of weeks ago, I bought an Oura ring. The Oura ring is a smart ring to be worn on one of your fingers and it advertises itself as „the most accurate guide on your sleep, activity and wellness“. Sounds…
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Insulin resistance
When hearing `Resistance´, you might think about Star Wars and the force around General Leia to fight against the First Order. So far – so good 😉 While I appreciate your nerdy cinema knowledge, the resistance we are talking about in this article is less cinematic but still – it…
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Fasting for weight loss
Interestingly, most people who want to lose weight think about what to eat. But with all we learned by now: Shouldn´t we rather think about when to eat? And when not to eat? As far as I understood, weight gain, weight loss, overweight, and obesity are mostly hormonal topics and…
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CGM and fasting
Now that I am adapted to some fasting, it’s time for some science and self-experiments! With a CGM, I want to track what´s happening inside me. You might know, that I was already wearing a CGM a couple of times and making tests on how I react to different foods…
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