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Want a good night’s sleep? Stop worrying about sleepmaxxing – and ditch the fitness trackers

There's a relatively new buzzword for our very modern obsession with sleep hygiene: orthosomnia. Experts say to just relax.

The Star MalaysiaChloe Aiello查看原文 ↗
想要睡个好觉?别再费心追求睡眠最大化了——扔掉健身追踪器吧。

The very practice of sleepmaxxing, or optimising for sleep, could be ruining it. — Unsplash

We’re maxxing everything these days—looks, tokens, fibre—so why not sleep?

The very practice of sleepmaxxing, or optimising for sleep, could be ruining it. And the proliferation of biometric tracking and wearables that promise to help users achieve perfect sleep is taking things even further, contributing to the rise of a distinctly modern ailment called orthosomnia.

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