{"id":758378,"date":"2026-09-03T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:56:09","slug":"is-sleep-tracking-making-your-sleep-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758378\/","title":{"rendered":"Is sleep tracking making your sleep worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hare says she&#8217;s noticed trackers causing anxiety among her patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed more patients coming to me with data from various trackers, with lots of questions about sleep that&#8230; is probably contributing to their sleep difficulties,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even though some have had medical tests with reassuring results, this hasn&#8217;t allayed their fears, she adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great that there&#8217;s more focus on sleep as part of wellness,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;But sleep just does not respond well to attempts to perfect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One proposed lawsuit against Oura, filed last month in San Francisco, alleges that Oura rings are unable to accurately measure sleep quality and sleep stages, and instead rely on AI-generated estimates that have &#8220;a coin flip&#8217;s chance of being correct&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, Oura told the BBC that it &#8220;stand[s] behind our science, research and accuracy claims&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to clearly communicating what Oura measures, what it estimates, and how members should use that information,&#8221; the company added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hare says she&#8217;s noticed trackers causing anxiety among her patients. &#8220;I&#8217;ve noticed more patients coming to me with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}