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When health tracking increases health anxiety

I track everything on my phone - steps, calories, sleep, mood - but I feel more anxious about my health than when I just listened to my body.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Constant self-monitoring can create anxiety about metrics while diminishing trust in embodied self-knowledge and natural rhythms.

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