In this week's IMA Webinar, our experts debate the promises and perils of wearable health technology. Join our panel as they explore the medical benefits, privacy concerns, and safety questions.
Of course it’s digital surveillance. How is this ok with any American? And at first they’ll say, oh no worries-it’s voluntary. Until it’s mandatory or you won’t be able to pay your mortgage or buy groceries. No thx!
Zoomed pas years ago. Around 1975 or so, I wrote a program that enabled the life insurance company I worked for to query the health information data for newly written life insurance policies. Automated instead of mail courier. Medical Information Bureau has all the health data, so they can "prevent fraud". HIPAA has, I read, 2.2 million entities that can read the data. There is an app that can scan a license plate and give police not only name and address, but queries social platforms in order to assess a possible terrorist threat level. Phone calls can be saved and then queried for key words. The Post Office scans and stores images of all your mail. To be fair, it will email you your images every day, for free. And this is just the old stuff.
There it is. Frogs in a pot until 2020. Sounds crazy I could feel something seriously awry unraveling. My mea culpa is my work in pharma for two decades. Pretty godless, esp in hindsight. But it did provide me with a VERY good handle the on the “rot” from actual origins to “mitigation” to uhh.. cure (ie it takes years for an antibiotic, antipsychotic to be approved and another yikes at least another ~decade to get a category “B” for use during pregnancy (2nd trimester be the worst time for fetal insult). Sorry for all the words. Keeps me up at night.
Gee. Ive pretty much learned, whenever the government says they “care about you”….RUN. Not only have we witnessed the colossal damage from a death shot, with clear evidence, (if you’ve got two neurons firing), this wearable is just more surveillance and data farming. We already have smart everything collecting and storing our “private lives”. Land of the free & home of the brave? HA.
For those who know their Bible, we are watching the Beast System being set up right before our eyes! Heads up, folks!
Excellent discussion. Wearables sound like a great resource, except I simply do not trust that the data would be kept between my phone and me, exclusively.
Of course it’s digital surveillance. How is this ok with any American? And at first they’ll say, oh no worries-it’s voluntary. Until it’s mandatory or you won’t be able to pay your mortgage or buy groceries. No thx!
Nope to wearables. Living healthy is not that hard. Clean up the water and food supply, exercise moderately, enjoy life, have faith, and love your family. It's not hard. Don't need a wearable.
A friend wrote just this morning about a faulty glucose monitor that was throwing alarms almost continuously. Temporary Solution: Wrap the arm in foil until replacement was available. Of course, we suggested ditching the monitor completely and recommended watching (and asking the doctor to watch) this webinar before resuming with a new monitor.
I can remember decades ago wearing a heart monitor while I jogged. It didn't retain any readings and it didn't report my readings to any other person or entity. That's the only kind of wearable I'd use today--a "dumb" one that has no connectivity or fancy apps (that could be used against my interests).
We stopped all wearables years ago (Garmin vivo smart watch) and have been much happier to be out from under their spell. Being constantly monitored by ourselves and likely others was not a good approach for us. We do not carry a smart phone and never will.
Guaranteed, once wearables are in wide use, government and/or insurance companies likely will mandate them (or use carrot-and-stick approach) and most certainly will monitor them. We can only begin to imagine what they might mandate, but consider recent COVID countermeasures and vaccination papers, and you're on to our thinking.
If you're OK with monitoring and possible future tyranny, then by all means, use wearables. But once you connect ANYTHING to the Internet (including your smart phone/watch/ring and any medical records your healthcare providers keep about you), rest assured, they'll be watching. By the way, HIPAA is a joke -- it's not about privacy, it's about how others can share your medical data (see https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-myth-of-medical-privacy-with-twila-brase-rn/)
Regarding Sleep and anxiety (also gum recession)...
We had long-term problems with:
-- Sleep problems and anxiety (stopped doctor recommended lab and at-home sleep monitoring and anti-anxiety/depression medication shortly after being prescribed), and
-- Periodontal issues (controlled decades ago with self-treatment and anti-infective homecare, not the invasive gum surgery two periodontists tried to fear-porn us to undergo)!
Recently, our dentist told us that open-mouth breathing could be at the root of all these problems (🦷 pun intended, of course). By golly, he was right!
After just over a month of switching to strictly nasal breathing (yes, even during exercise), and taping our mouths at night, sleep and anxiety problems are almost ZERO! No snoring either! We suspect our mouth health also will improve even more. All this with NO invasive therapies, NO electronic monitoring, just nasal breathing and self-observation.
Read more about the breathing techniques (which are EASY to learn), including Buteyko Method, here:
-- Breath by James Nestor + Buteyko Method breathing exercises + Mouth Taping for sleep…
Regarding the Blueberries were those organic and not washed in toxic tap water? We can also wonder if a present state makes Blueberries spike glucose but if the present state is corrected (hidden problem) then Blueberries is not a problem. Where does this point? The microbiome is critical to our health.
Of course it’s digital surveillance. How is this ok with any American? And at first they’ll say, oh no worries-it’s voluntary. Until it’s mandatory or you won’t be able to pay your mortgage or buy groceries. No thx!
The data will not be private. It is a naive folly to think so. Nope.
Alas, we are approaching (probably) past the point where the KGB /Stasi would blush.
Zoomed pas years ago. Around 1975 or so, I wrote a program that enabled the life insurance company I worked for to query the health information data for newly written life insurance policies. Automated instead of mail courier. Medical Information Bureau has all the health data, so they can "prevent fraud". HIPAA has, I read, 2.2 million entities that can read the data. There is an app that can scan a license plate and give police not only name and address, but queries social platforms in order to assess a possible terrorist threat level. Phone calls can be saved and then queried for key words. The Post Office scans and stores images of all your mail. To be fair, it will email you your images every day, for free. And this is just the old stuff.
There it is. Frogs in a pot until 2020. Sounds crazy I could feel something seriously awry unraveling. My mea culpa is my work in pharma for two decades. Pretty godless, esp in hindsight. But it did provide me with a VERY good handle the on the “rot” from actual origins to “mitigation” to uhh.. cure (ie it takes years for an antibiotic, antipsychotic to be approved and another yikes at least another ~decade to get a category “B” for use during pregnancy (2nd trimester be the worst time for fetal insult). Sorry for all the words. Keeps me up at night.
Agree 💯
Gee. Ive pretty much learned, whenever the government says they “care about you”….RUN. Not only have we witnessed the colossal damage from a death shot, with clear evidence, (if you’ve got two neurons firing), this wearable is just more surveillance and data farming. We already have smart everything collecting and storing our “private lives”. Land of the free & home of the brave? HA.
For those who know their Bible, we are watching the Beast System being set up right before our eyes! Heads up, folks!
Excellent discussion. Wearables sound like a great resource, except I simply do not trust that the data would be kept between my phone and me, exclusively.
Of course it’s digital surveillance. How is this ok with any American? And at first they’ll say, oh no worries-it’s voluntary. Until it’s mandatory or you won’t be able to pay your mortgage or buy groceries. No thx!
Wearables are not the MAHA agenda. This is digital ID, quarantine, track and trace, vaccine mandate/compliance BS. Soon they will want implants.
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Government can only have a say if we let them foot the bill.
Wearables are a consumable good and should stay in the hands of the buyer.
Remember everything Obama promised? Larry???
I use a FitBit Charge to monitor my sleep. It has been very useful pointing to LED lighting as a big danger. Can we ban LED lighting???
I hear you! Far too much LED, isn't there?
You can be found by that tracking device by anyone//////////1
I would NEVER wear one of these! They are perfect tracking devices and more!
Nope to wearables. Living healthy is not that hard. Clean up the water and food supply, exercise moderately, enjoy life, have faith, and love your family. It's not hard. Don't need a wearable.
And do not jab yourself with foreign proteins of any kind...
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i hadn’t considered the problem of inaccurate data coming from wearables being later used against a person in some way🧐
A friend wrote just this morning about a faulty glucose monitor that was throwing alarms almost continuously. Temporary Solution: Wrap the arm in foil until replacement was available. Of course, we suggested ditching the monitor completely and recommended watching (and asking the doctor to watch) this webinar before resuming with a new monitor.
I can remember decades ago wearing a heart monitor while I jogged. It didn't retain any readings and it didn't report my readings to any other person or entity. That's the only kind of wearable I'd use today--a "dumb" one that has no connectivity or fancy apps (that could be used against my interests).
We stopped all wearables years ago (Garmin vivo smart watch) and have been much happier to be out from under their spell. Being constantly monitored by ourselves and likely others was not a good approach for us. We do not carry a smart phone and never will.
Guaranteed, once wearables are in wide use, government and/or insurance companies likely will mandate them (or use carrot-and-stick approach) and most certainly will monitor them. We can only begin to imagine what they might mandate, but consider recent COVID countermeasures and vaccination papers, and you're on to our thinking.
If you're OK with monitoring and possible future tyranny, then by all means, use wearables. But once you connect ANYTHING to the Internet (including your smart phone/watch/ring and any medical records your healthcare providers keep about you), rest assured, they'll be watching. By the way, HIPAA is a joke -- it's not about privacy, it's about how others can share your medical data (see https://www.americaoutloud.news/the-myth-of-medical-privacy-with-twila-brase-rn/)
Regarding Sleep and anxiety (also gum recession)...
We had long-term problems with:
-- Sleep problems and anxiety (stopped doctor recommended lab and at-home sleep monitoring and anti-anxiety/depression medication shortly after being prescribed), and
-- Periodontal issues (controlled decades ago with self-treatment and anti-infective homecare, not the invasive gum surgery two periodontists tried to fear-porn us to undergo)!
Recently, our dentist told us that open-mouth breathing could be at the root of all these problems (🦷 pun intended, of course). By golly, he was right!
After just over a month of switching to strictly nasal breathing (yes, even during exercise), and taping our mouths at night, sleep and anxiety problems are almost ZERO! No snoring either! We suspect our mouth health also will improve even more. All this with NO invasive therapies, NO electronic monitoring, just nasal breathing and self-observation.
Read more about the breathing techniques (which are EASY to learn), including Buteyko Method, here:
-- Breath by James Nestor + Buteyko Method breathing exercises + Mouth Taping for sleep…
Change your life by breathing correctly. Keep your mouth shut (and taped during sleep). Breathe through your nose (never your mouth). Breathe softly and slowly. Practice! By Big E (07/08/25): https://eolson47.substack.com/p/breath-by-james-nestor-buteyko-method
We hope this information helps others! It's certainly worth a try.
Oh boy here we go…. Will you be sponsoring these wearables and or sell them as part of your kits??
This discussion was VERY informative, thank you all!
Regarding the Blueberries were those organic and not washed in toxic tap water? We can also wonder if a present state makes Blueberries spike glucose but if the present state is corrected (hidden problem) then Blueberries is not a problem. Where does this point? The microbiome is critical to our health.