Hello!
I wanted to ask whether fitbit is considering making a correlation between heart rate and the female health function. Pilot studies such as this one performed with a fitbit device and other early studies show that there's a pattern in resting heart rate and the menstrual cycle.
This has given me a hint about why the evaluation showed by the fitbit app (the one it shows also on the bpm section) is completely irrelevant for me. It will tell me that I am in bad shape compared to other women my age when I am on the ovulatory and premenstrual phase and that I am doing great during my preovulatory phase. This is nonsense, because I haven't changed my exercising behaviour! This happened over and over again and I decided to check these heart rate data against my cycle data (tracked with clue and also with ovulation tests). The result was that there is a pattern for me too. This pattern could be useful to calculate the ovulation and menstruation dates and I think it's a pity it's not taken into account.
Fitbit gathers a lot of interesting data that I think could be used much better. Has anybody else noticed a pattern like this? Who wouldn't be happy to be advised when the period is coming? Or maybe have the heart rate zones altered according to that cycle phase? I think women could make much more out of these devices and the app only if the programmers took the gender approach we are missing.
Thanks for reading 🙂
