People being able to measure it on their own != employers being given the right to require doing so and handing over the data. Matter of fact, you could outright ban employers from doing so. But then the topic of moan would become that regulations bad, and this would be then quickly portrayed as an industry backsetting obstacle.

Never a boring day.

Smartwatches have been measuring all sorts from our bodies for a long time and whilst some people develop this type of thing, the majority have not. These watches have been monitoring stress in the form of HRV for many years now.

> as little …

This is exactly the opposite of what which is written in the quoted wikipedia article:

> Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patient self-measurement using a home blood pressure monitoring device is being increasingly used to differentiate those with white coat hypertension or experiencing the white coat effect from those with chronic hypertension

Continuous monitoring is a viable workaround wrt. white coat symptoms. It is just a lot more effort and expensive.

It can be measured in a blind way.

This is what the kids call gatekeeping, not a whole lot different from the old “if the proles are allowed to read the religious texts they will get it wrong, better limit such things to priests.”

Yes, during the transition phase where information becomes available, some people will handle it badly, misinterpret, and generally be worse off.

But that’s a terrible reason to withhold knowledge, especially about peoples’ own bodies.

There's no reason to think that continuous monitoring with a comfortable wearable would contribute to a white coat syndrome. The Wikipedia link that you cited actually says that at-home blood pressure readings are more reliable than those taken by a professional in a clinic because (it is believed) that the presence of another human administering a single test is what causes stress concerning the test. With the multiple, self-administered approach, there is no single test to fixate on, and no other human administering it.

> This is why continuous monitoring is usually applied as little as reasonably possible

The reason it is applied as little as possible is because it has been prohibitively expensive. For most things there is a benefit to sampling more often, and what sampling rate is adequate is entirely dependent on the maximum frequency that you need to observe. Another way of phrasing that is if it can change quickly, then you need to sample more often.

I suppose to mitigate that you could have that data not immediately viewable to the patient because seeing "stress line go up" would be pretty stressful and would skew the data anyway.

Shifting waking time forwards is straightforward but getting into bed early enough can be tough.

As for the phase shift, I've always had what I thought was maintenance insomnia but at some point I realized I always waking at exactly 4:30am. Going to bed early resolves the maintenance insomnia (also travelling eastward more than a few hours or so). My father and brother are the same.

I'd love to get a DLMO done to confirm. Thinking about experimenting with tracking core body temperature monitoring soon.

FWIW a 24h ambulatory blood pressure study actually showed a phase advanced nocturnal dip.