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Feature · Sleep · 12 min read

Sleep architecture: what your wearable doesn’t tell you

Your Oura ring shows you a deep-sleep number. The labs that established that number used 32-channel polysomnography. Here is what gets lost in translation — and what to actually do about it.

May 12, 2026
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