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In the past few years, “trackers” have become an essential part of the health fitness world. It’s not just about digitally logging your workouts with wearables like Garmin or COROS; you can also stay on top of your menstrual cycle with apps like Clue or Flo; track your sleep—down to how long you spend in each stage—via an Oura ring; quantify your recovery with a WHOOP; and check blood biomarker levels with InsideTracker (without ever stepping into a lab).
It’s enough to overwhelm you with data—so much so that you’d be forgiven for asking why exactly you’d want to track it all if you’re already fit and healthy. You certainly don’t have to! But there’s a reason all these tests, apps, and devices are so popular: “They have essentially democratized access to things that were, from a sociocultural perspective, previously only available to more elite…
