More data isn’t always better for your health.
“because you can lose weight, but still not train your body to use the food you eat properly”; it’s why many people who lose weight tend to gain it back later, the company says.
For nearly two weeks, I did as the app suggested, measuring my metabolism as soon as I woke up, again before going to sleep, 30 minutes before and after exercising, and one to two hours after eating. I followed meal suggestions from the app as well; they included simple but limited recipes, such as a corn-tortilla wrap with chicken salad or pork with grilled vegetables.
It’s not that breathing into a device to get data on your metabolism is total hogwash . Experts use breath to get a peek into what’s happening in the body all the time with some standard tests such as; as the Lumen does, they measure oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output in your breath, a metric called the respiratory exchange ratio. Because all cells need oxygen to function , this ratio tells us how the body is using energy; the higher it is, the more carbs you burn and vice versa.
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