Natalie Forsythe
I Spent 23 Days Trying to Confirm One Device's Status in the Philips Ventilator Recall. Here's What Each Channel Actually Returned.
The question I set out to answer is narrow enough to fit on an index card. For one specific machine — a Trilogy 100 in a back bedroom in Ohio, running about sixteen hours a day for a man with ALS…
"Just Lose Weight": Seven Months on GLP-1 Drugs, Measured Against My Own Sleep Apnea
The advice is old enough to have a groove worn in it. If you snore, if your partner has watched you stop breathing, if you wake at six already tired — lose weight, and the apnea will improve.
Running Headphones and the Race Rule Everyone Quotes Wrong
The advice arrives at packet pickup, usually from someone holding a bib and four safety pins: headphones are banned, but bone conduction is fine, because your ears stay open.
Sleep Apnea Treatment Alternatives, Tested: Six Weeks With an Electrode on My Tongue
The number on my sleep study was 8.4 events an hour. Mild, technically. "We usually just watch that," the physician said, and that is how most conversations about sleep apnea treatment alternatives…
Apple Watch Series 11, Six Weeks In: A Smartwatch Comparison That Only Cares About Sleep
The question I actually wanted answered was narrow, and I suspect it's yours too: can a $399 watch settle the argument I have with myself every afternoon about the 4 p.m. coffee?
The Google Pixel 11 Launch Put a Light Back on the Phone. I Slept Next to It for Sixteen Nights.
Google spent roughly four minutes of the Google Pixel 11 launch on a ring of twenty-four micro-LEDs under the rear glass of the Pro models and called it HiLight.
Smartwatch Anxiety Rests on Three Patients: What That Number Does and Doesn't Prove
Three. That is the number sitting underneath nearly everything you have read about smartwatch anxiety. Not three hundred. Not three thousand.
Eleven Lux at Arm's Length: A Fitness Tracker Review of Three Screens and One Absence
Eleven lux, measured at forty centimetres, in a bedroom my meter otherwise read as 0.0. That is what an AMOLED smartwatch puts on your face when you roll over at 3 a.m.
I Tested a $299 Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device Against Ten Minutes of Free Breathing for Fourteen Weeks
The standard advice about vagus nerve stimulation is that you shouldn't pay for it. Breathe out twice as long as you breathe in. Hum. Splash cold water on your face.