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Meet the Oura Medical Advisory Board
Oura welcomes eight world-class science and medical experts from a range of disciplines to the inaugural Medical Advisory Board.
November 29, 2023
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Inside the Ring: Understanding Oura’s New Daytime Stress Feature
Hear from the builders of the Oura’s Daytime Stress Feature, which offers real-time insights on your physiological stress throughout the day.
November 21, 2023
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ŌURA Expands Retail Footprint into Canada with Best Buy Partnership
Oura Ring is now available in 120+ Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.ca.
October 23, 2023
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Understanding Your Respiratory Rate While Sleeping
Your respiratory rate while sleeping is a good marker of your health and recovery. Here’s everything you need to know about this vital biosignal.
October 18, 2023
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How to Use Oura Temperature Trends to Track Your Cycle
Your body temperature naturally shifts throughout your cycle, and Oura Ring can be a helpful tool for tracking it and noticing changes.
October 17, 2023
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Track, Understand, and Manage Your Stress With Oura
Oura now measures your body’s responses to stressors during the day, helping you understand how to improve recovery and manage stress.
October 10, 2023
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How To Conduct A Self-Experiment With Oura
How does your evening espresso affect your sleep? Find out how to do a self-experiment with Oura Experiments.
September 01, 2023
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How Oura Can Help Monitor Illness
Your body is unique, and every person shows different patterns of strain, recovery, and illness. Learn how to spot yours.
August 19, 2023
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Building “Movement for All” at Oura: Meet Maris J., Our Activity Product Manager
A marathon runner, former insomniac, and Oura member (and now employee!), Maris J. has made it her mission to make all movement count.
August 18, 2023
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What Makes the Oura Ring Different?
What is Oura? How is it different? What does it measure?
July 11, 2023
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Defining Low, Medium, and High-Intensity Movement & Using Oura to Track It
Learn how Oura tracks and categorizes your physical activity into low, medium, and high-intensity – and the benefits of each.
June 29, 2023
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"Our Oura Score Conversations Are As Routine As Morning Coffee:" How Kati and Jon Use Circles
The new Oura Circles feature has encouraged more open dialogue about their baseline scores, "good days," and overall health journeys.
June 07, 2023
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What is HRV Balance?
As an Oura Readiness Score contributor, HRV Balance is generated through a long-term comparison of your personal trends and baseline.
May 19, 2023
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Oura's Commitment to Prioritizing Women's Health
The team at Oura recognizes the importance and urgency of working toward health equity for women, especially in research and technology.
May 01, 2023
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Understanding the Normal Fluctuations in Body Temperature
Your body temperature naturally fluctuates. Here's what's normal—and the temperature patterns to look for to read your body's signals.
April 28, 2023
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How Oura Data Can Help You Understand Your Menstrual Cycle
Oura tracks key biomarkers that give you an insight into your menstrual cycle and how it can fluctuate based on a number of lifestyle factors.
April 25, 2023
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How Lewis C. Improved His Autoimmune Symptoms, Sleep, & Lifestyle With Oura
The engineer-turned-health-coach shares how he tracked, and ultimately solved, his mysterious health struggles with Oura.
March 23, 2023
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How Accurate Are Oura's Heart Rate & HRV Measurements?
The Oura Ring performed near-perfect for resting heart rate (r² = 0.996) and extremely high for heart rate variability (r² = 0.980) when compared to a medical-grade ECG device.
February 15, 2023
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Meet the Oura Member (and Employee) Who Broke a Running World Record
Ultrarunner Don Reichelt turns to Oura data to help him train for a record-breaking feat: running for 24 hours straight.
November 01, 2022
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Inside the Ring: How We Developed the Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Feature
Oura’s science and product teams provide a behind-the-scenes view of the research and development that went into building this feature.
July 26, 2022
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Your Oura Readiness Score
Learn more about your Readiness Score and how you can use it to increase your productivity.
September 02, 2020
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Why Oura Measures Temperature from Your Finger
New research is starting to show that shell temperature can even carry more information than core temperature due to your body’s insulation—resulting in limited changes in core temperature.
March 18, 2020
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Your Temperature Trends on the Oura App
Wondering how to interpret your Oura temperature data? We've got you covered.
March 17, 2020
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Explore Trends
With Trends, you can fact-check how you intuitively feel your choices impact your body by comparing them to your body’s sleep, activity, and Readiness patterns.
February 18, 2020
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Explore Tags
With Oura’s Tags feature, you can explore how your habits, behaviors, and choices affect your sleep and overall wellness.
February 18, 2020
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