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When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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Re: When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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I just ordered the Zeo Sleep Coach. Interesting idea. Hoping they wouldn't have gone to market unless they had it working reasonably well. 30 day refund just in case.

It looks as though it just gives you data about sleep phases. How they're going to turn that into helpful advice for improving sleep is a bit of a mystery.

Re: When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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Nice ad. Go to your doctor, explain your sleep troubles, see if you can get a sleep study. Check with your insurance, they may pay for it (~$1200). Also, if you opt to see your doctor over the Zeo $400 doctor-mom route, he would be able to prescribe a CPAP device in the event that you have sleep apnea, or controlled medicines such as Provigil that require a bit of extra medical evaluation to get approved.

Yes, if you're tired from a normal amount of sleep or have trouble sleeping, just go do a sleep study. At the very least it will rule out things such as sleep apnea, a lethal condition that you might live your entire life not knowing about.

Re: When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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"When we operate outside our design parameters we can function, but we function as visitors." Agreed! I try to live this way, but I have one nagging problem... We weren't meant to sit for 8 to 12 hours per day staring at a little box. All my bad habits flow from this. I love what I do, but this one item makes me second guess my career choice all the time.

I am in the same boat. There are a few things I try to do to minimize this: -Walk to work, or if that's not possible drive only partway there then walk. -Use all of my break times to get up and be active in some capacity (Even if it is just walking to get some water) -Do my planning 'offline'. In the moments when I'm strategizing and thinking I try to walk around or use pen and paper. Execution has to be in the littl…

I would be interested to know how you secured your monitors to the drafting table. Do you adjust the tilt, or only move the table up/down?

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The headline didn't deceive me. The article was up to my expectations from the headline.

The article struck me as a thinly veiled advertisement for the Zeo Personal Sleep Coach. Not much substance.

to be honest, i thought the same. but it does have a lot of interesting facts.

Re: When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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I just ordered the Zeo Sleep Coach. Interesting idea. Hoping they wouldn't have gone to market unless they had it working reasonably well. 30 day refund just in case.

Hi David,

We're excited for you to begin the journey of discovering more about your sleep, and are excited to hear your thoughts.

We spent more than 5 years developing and testing Zeo until our early users (over 150 of them) told us it was ready.

Not sure if you saw, but the uploading your data to an online account is included along with 6 months of sleep coaching via email.

Enjoy! -Derek@Zeo

Re: When Sleep Leaves You Tired

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I just ordered the Zeo Sleep Coach. Interesting idea. Hoping they wouldn't have gone to market unless they had it working reasonably well. 30 day refund just in case.

I'm interested in sleep hacking as well. Please report back here what you think of the device. Thanks!
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