Your Smartwatch May Predict Disease Risk by Tracking Your Body Clock
This study suggests keeping a steady daily rhythm of activity may track with better long-term health.
Your body has a daily rhythm for movement and temperature, and how well these two line up seems to matter. In about 90,000 middle-aged and older adults, those with better-synced daily rhythms had lower odds of diabetes, heart disease, depression, and early death. This data came from a week of wrist-worn trackers, the same kind many people already use.
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