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Caroline Kryder

Caroline Kryder is Oura’s product manager for women's health, helping teams across the company build products that help women achieve their goals from cycle tracking to fertility. Before joining ŌURA, she helped clients build their own biometric research programs using eye-tracking, EEG, heart rate, facial coding, GSR, and implicit testing at Nielsen. Her work focused on exploring questions like “how do male and female superheroes inspire different emotions in different audiences?” Her passion is to empower people to understand their health and talk about science in their own words. Caroline has her BA from Carleton College and lives in San Francisco.
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How Does the Oura Ring Track My Sleep?

Take a look inside Oura Ring’s thoughtful technology that allows it to accurately track your stages of sleep.

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How Blue Light Impacts Your Sleep

Your body’s unique internal clock can be thrown off by your cell phone, laptop, and other before-bed habits.

Polyphasic sleep

Does Sleeping Multiple Times A Day Work? Polyphasic Sleep Explained

Conventionally, adult humans are “monophasic sleepers,” which means they sleep in a single block, depositing sleep as one payment each night. However, some individuals have tried “polyphasic sleeping,” where sleep is divided up throughout the day in a series of smaller sleep segments of a few hours scattered throughout the day.

Oura Partners With USA Surfing for Their Olympic Debut

As USA Surfing heads into their Olympic debut, kicking off their season, surfers will use Oura Ring to monitor their sleep and recovery. By delivering personalized Readiness, Activity, and Sleep insights and guidance directly to their apps, Oura will help surfers stay present, improve performance, and maximize recovery. 

Naps Around the World

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 pm, you just had lunch, loads more to get done, but your body wants a breather. What if you just took a nap? Naps, when done right, are a perfect way to take a short mental timeout during the day. 

7 Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep

Want to improve your sleep and build healthy habits that can last a lifetime? Put these 7 tips to the test.

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