Nutrition, excretion, sleep phases: the completely meaningless pressure to document everything about oneself
Am a wild thing: I run, breathe and love completely out of control. If someone asks me how I am or how I slept, I answer spontaneously, without first looking at my phone. Especially in the fall I am an exotic. Almost all friends now use health trackers, digital fitness bracelets or their lifestyle apps to optimize their body functions such as? Health? on. An app a day keeps the doctor away? The felt well-being no longer counts; everyone builds their own surveillance state.
The compulsion to document everything
Especially so-called cyberchonders, of whom almost one million in Germany already fetch their imaginary diseases on the Internet, document states of pre-emption in digital logbooks. It creates playlists of respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and heartbeat, and diagramms and discusses nutrition, excretion, sleep phases, and weight history. Unfortunately also at the common dinner.
What's that, a kind of body quartet, who has the most horsepower, the strongest feelings and the longest stamina? The largest lung volume that burns the most calorie spray? Men love these comparisons, so there are sex apps such as "spreadsheets" that measure and motivate performance through duration, movement, and the amount of noise generated, and make you go up to the sex god. Not sensually, but seems more useful than the app developed by women? Clue ?, Which makes the female cycle and fertility plannable, even without pink flower layout.
Digital self-knowledge should be the first way to get well soon
While work is being done all the time to further humanize robots. By programming speech, feeling and consciousness, people try to make themselves more and more predictable. But as long as I do not see my remaining lifetime or the psychopath Shazam is invented, I have no interest. Just run until you are out of breath, instead of the heart rate controlled to increase the maximum power limit. Under the pressure of digital control, the body is no longer an equal member of the WG, but the head of his suspicious landlord who sounds the alarm as soon as the red blood cells slough off the oxygen in cells.
Do not be interested in doctor games
If you only drive to Navi, you will lose your sense of orientation and fun. I rather train instinct, intuition and ignorance than to question my bodily functions electronically, especially since I, like almost all, lack the expertise to evaluate the data of these doctor games. The finer you measure, the more often you will find it. Something always works: the breath too fast, the heart too restless? only sleeping is not possible. But as the world seems to be spinning, there is a sense of security when everything is under control, at least on screen. Unless one runs in front of a car, because one, staring at the smartphone, optimizes his life expectancy.
