Category: Wearable Tech
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What’s a Normal Respiratory Rate? Adults, Kids, and Athletes
Dr. Mukul Mittal walks you through normal respiratory rate by age — adult, pediatric, and athletic ranges, what affects them, and when to see a clinician.
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Are Nightshade Vegetables Inflammatory? Evidence and Glucose Data
Dr. Mukul Mittal walks you through whether nightshade vegetables are inflammatory — what the evidence actually shows, plus what Ultrahuman’s CGM data reveals on tomato, eggplant, and potato glucose response.
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Is Diet Coke Bad for You? Aspartame, Glucose, and the CGM Data
Dr. Mukul Mittal walks you through whether Diet Coke is bad for you – what aspartame does to blood glucose, the safety evidence and what Ultrahuman’s CGM data shows.
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Science-backed Ways To Balance Your Hormones Naturally
Dr. Mukul Mittal walks you through how to balance hormones naturally — sleep, movement, nutrition, and stress as the four evidence-backed levers, plus what your Ring AIR or Ring PRO can show about hormonal patterns across your cycle.
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Parasympathetic vs Sympathetic: Activate Your Body’s “Rest & Digest” Mode
Dr. Mukul Mittal, Medical Director at Ultrahuman, walks you through how to look at the parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) and sympathetic (“fight or flight”) branches — with Ring AIR data from 320,000 users on the day-to-night heart-rate drop.
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A1C Calculator: What Your Number Really Means
What does your A1C number actually mean? Dr. Mukul Mittal, Medical Director at Ultrahuman, walks through the A1C-to-glucose conversion chart, where the test misleads, and how CGM Time-in-Range fills the gap A1C alone can’t capture.
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Sleeping Heart Rate by Age: 532,000 Ring Users’ Nightly Data Compared
What’s a typical sleeping heart rate by age? Ultrahuman analyzed 532,000 Ring AIR users across 78 million nights — and the result challenges a popular assumption. Dr. Mukul Mittal walks through the data.
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Glutathione Benefits: The Master Antioxidant Explained
Glutathione benefits are real — but most oral supplements aren’t. Mukul Mittal, Medical Director at Ultrahuman, walks through the evidence-backed benefits, the foods that actually raise it, and which precursor supplements (NAC, cysteine, glycine) have the strongest evidence behind them – plus where the supplement industry overstates what oral pills can do.
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How to Lower A1C Naturally
Want to lower your A1C? Mukul Mittal, Medical Director at Ultrahuman, walks through the diet, exercise, weight, and sleep levers backed by clinical trials — and when medication should join the plan.