Samsung he is pressing his Galaxy clock Beyond monitoring of health and everyday fitness and in the field of preventive care with personalized well -being training and a new blood analysis function that aims to help people defend disease and support healthier aging. I spoke to Dr. Hon Pak, Samsung Senior Vice President and Digital Health Chief, to take a look closer to the Galaxy clock and how we could change how we think about the usables.
“There are diseases, there is cancer and so many other conditions that can be avoided,” Pak said to Cnet. “We know that these behaviors are important, but in our busy lives, it is often difficult to keep them up to date. In Samsung, our mission is to meet people where they are and help to support these healthy behaviors in a significant way.”
New tools are expected to debut next to the next Galaxy Watch in July and include a non-invasive blood test that measures antioxidant levels (or carotenoids), a cardiovascular health evaluation, a personalized sleep training and an AI functioning evaluation with live feedback to help you become smarter.
“What we really think we can do is bring this data on sleep, nutrition, activity and stress and really contextualize them for the user,” Pak said.
At a time when there is a dizzying number of smart and usable clocks available to consumers, Samsung aims to highlight evolving his Galaxy clock from a passive tracking device in a proactive health monitor. The goal is to help people control their health and keep them in the long term. With more than 68 million people worldwide in Samsung Health, the company hopes to overcome the gap between this brief snapshot of data collected in the doctor’s consultation and continuous health data collected by usable This can help paint a more complete image of your health.
The Galaxy Watch antioxidant index measures antioxidant levels in the body without blood sample; Only the thumb on the sensor.
Antioxidant detection, no needle is needed
Beta-Carotene is just an example of the many carotenoids or antioxidants found in vegetables such as carrots and sweet potatoes that can help to neutralize toxins (free radicals) on the body, According to the National Health Institute. These toxins, usually caused by stress, poor diet, smoking and aging, can accumulate -over time and contribute to serious health problems such as cancer, heart disease and premature aging. Currently, one of the most common ways to detect carotenoid levels is through a laboratory test causing the blood to be removed.
With a new feature called antioxidant index, the following Galaxy clock will be able to measure the levels of carotenoids on the skin instantly without needles or laboratory work. Instead, place the thumb on the back of the watch sensor for a few seconds.
“This is a non -invasive way to see how diet and lifestyle can affect your antioxidant levels,” Pak said. “We use LED light sensors that measure four different wavelengths to detect beta-carotene on the skin. And we have validated the readings (from the Galaxy clock) against blood levels.”
In Galaxy Watch, people will receive a “low” to “score” to “proper”, with some general orientations about habits to improve antioxidant levels. Long -term Samsung is working on more AI -led recommendations, related to specific recipes, supplements and plans.
“If your levels are low, we could suggest more green leaf or sweet potatoes,” Pak said. “Finally, we want to tie it to custom recommendations through training suggestions and nutritional recipes.”
Galaxy Watch’s smartest operating tools create a personalized training plan to achieve your goals that are adapted as you go.
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Samsung is also debuting a 12 -minute test to help Galaxy Watch owners establish a basic fitness level, ranging from beginner (first level) to marathon (level 10). Once the evaluation is completed, the clock will generate a personalized training plan to help people achieve specific distance goals, such as making a marathon of 10 kilometers or a half.
You will also get a real-time mood of a Clock Ia coach to help you push you through a shot, similar to Apple’s new Buddy training function above Apple clock. The Samsung AI coach will give verbally guidance as “Push a Little Hard More” or “Ease”, as well as adapt plans for future workouts based on your performance. As users progress, they will unblock new training challenges, making the program dynamic and driven by goals.
It will also help you to put in context the training showing -you affect the other health indicators already on the clock, such as VO2 Max, a key indicator of the general way. Finally, these health indicators could be used as training objectives instead of distance goals only to point out a training plan.
“As we head to more athletes, this will be something people want to do,” Pak said. “This is a teaser for what will come.”
The guidance function when going to bed offers you an optimum sleep and alarm clock window that takes into account the circadian rhythm and sleep debt.
Sleep
Sleep is another basic piece of puzzle in the holistic approach to Samsung for preventive care and an important indicator of general health, said Pak. Poor dream has been linked to severe long -term risks such as dementia, cardiovascular disease and obesity.
“There is a lot of body repair during sleep, both physical and mental,” he said.
A new feature called Guidange Bedeare is based on the existing Galaxy Watch sleep monitoring tools, such as sleep phase analysis and sleep apnea detection, offering personalized recommendations for optimum sleep and stele time. Start with a three -day analysis of your sleep habits to determine your circadian rhythm and unique sleep pressure (also known as sleep debt). From there, the clock provides tailor -made tips to help improve metrics such as total sleep time and energy score based on your sleep details.
Instead of sending a generic reminder to get 8 hours of sleep, the orientation when going to bed recommends a personalized sleep and alarm clock window. The goal is to help you recover -in the nights of your sleep poor or irregular and improve your alert during the day. Therefore, for example, if you had the jet taking, this feature could (in theory) help reduce sleep debt and get your sleep schedule to return to the track faster.
The Galaxy clock also adopts a more nuanced focus for training by factoring in the real world tickets collected by the clock, the Galaxy telephone and other Samsung devices when available. For example, it may suggest improving your sleep environment down thermostat or making the room darker.
“We have smartthings connected to Samsung, so you can control your environment, things like humidity, temperature, lighting or even automatically close the blinds. We also have medical characteristics, such as sleep detection. After a couple of nights, we may be able to detect signs of sleep apnea and suggest that you are looking for medical care,” said Pak.
The vascular load of the Galaxy clock measures the heart strain (or vascular system) during sleep.
Vascular load measures tension in the heart
Another new metric is the vascular load, which reflects the accumulated stress of your heart and the vascular system while sleeping; Stress that ideally should decrease during the night. Pak said the Galaxy clock uses dust wave analyzes and optical sensors to keep track of trends in arterial rigidity and general cardiovascular tension. These readings translate on a low to high scale to help you understand how behaviors (such as sodium or alcohol intake) can contribute to the risk of long-term heart disease.
“Things like poor dream, bad diet or chronic stress can raise the vascular load,” Pak said. “This is a way we try to make these connections visible in a meaningful and measurable way.”
The functions will be available on more recent watches such as the Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy Watch 7, but will vary according to the types of sensors available.
Who gets these functions and how much will they cost?
The new features are part of the Watch One UI 8, available in the new Galaxy Watch series from this month, through a beta program (currently limited to US and South Korea customers with a Galaxy Watch 5 or more recent). The vascular load and the antioxidant index are introduced as laboratory functions, which means that they are considered experimental and available for early pre -view before the official launch.
All these functions are expected to debut with the next Galaxy Watch, which we hope will come in July. The availability of each specific feature will mainly depend on whether the Galaxy clock has the advanced LED sensors needed to feed them. Vascular load and antioxidant index, for example, will only be available in the Galaxy Watch Ultra And later, while the coach’s function will require the Galaxy Watch 7 or later.
The prices are still in the air. During our interview, the company said that it is exploring a premium subscription model similar to that of FITBIT Premium or the new Garmin connect Plus, which requires a monthly subscription to unlock advanced coaching functions. Ideally, the functions would be included free of charge with the new clock, while the oldest models could access it behind a paid bread. We will update this article as soon as Samsung shares more details about the eligibility and prices of the model.
The Samsung Health application showing data from Galaxy Watch Ultra.
Future Samsung Health Plans
Pot, suggested that the measurement of optical -based glucose is not too far. As Samsung continues to explore non -invasive medical tests, it is clear that the company sees that portable players play a growing role in monitoring and preventive care monitoring. Samsung’s goal is to make clinical views accessible at home and convert portable data into an actual orientation before a problem becomes serious.
“We believe that well -being is not just something,” Pak said. “It is activity, nutrition, mental health and sleep.”
Whether everything works as it is intended (and if people actually) will depend on the execution of Samsung. But one thing is clear, Samsung is making a serious game to turn the wrist into a real health center.
