In a world increasingly dominated by data and devices, wearable health technology—like FitBit fitness trackers, sleep monitors, apple watches and health apps—has emerged as one of the biggest trends of 2025. These devices promise insight, optimization, and control over one’s wellbeing. And while they’ve certainly increased awareness around movement and habits, there’s a deeper question we need to ask:
Are we outsourcing our self-awareness—and even disrupting our natural rhythms—in the process?
The answer I believe is yes!
At Vital Wellbeing, we believe in and educate on your body’s inborn intelligence. Many of you have heard me say learn to listen to the whispers or the signals your body gives you. That the power that made your body has the wisdom to maintain it, guide it, and help it in every moment of your physical lifetime. Yet today, many people are tuning into apps and devices more than they’re tuning into their own internal signals.
This isn’t just a philosophical concern—it’s a physiological one, too.
It’s easy to be enchanted by the allure of numbers and metrics, I get that, especially when we are taught within the indoctrinated health arena to trust others and not ourselves. Your wearable can tell you how long you slept, how many steps you have taken, how fast your heart beats, how stressed you might be. It gives you graphs and goals. But it also creates a layer of separation between you and your own body.
Instead of checking in with yourself each morning those that wear the trackables ask, “What does my tracker say? This subtle shift has big implications.
We begin to rely on algorithms instead of instincts. We stop tuning into ourselves and start interpreting data—data that doesn’t always reflect the full picture.
Here’s what isn’t talked about enough: wearable technology doesn’t operate in a vacuum. It relies on constant electromagnetic activity—Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and low-level radio frequency—to connect, collect, and transmit data.
And that’s where the contradiction lies.
Your body is already electromagnetic. If we take the deep dive into the body we end up at energy – you are indeed, at the smallest level, made up of energy. For example, your heart, an important carrier of information, produces a measurable energetic field. It is indeed the strongest rhythmic field produced by the human body with a field approximately 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity created in the brain and additionally, the heart’s magnetic field can be detected up to 3 feet away from the body in all directions. Why are we not attuning to this? Even your circadian rhythm is tuned to the broader electromagnetic field of the earth and sun.
When we introduce artificial EMF sources like wearables, we create a form of artificial, low-level radiation. While subtle, the body perceives these electromagnetic signals as non-native frequencies, and they can:
- Interfere with melatonin production: Just like blue light, EMFs have been shown in studies to suppress melatonin, disrupting the body’s ability to prepare for deep rest.
- Disturb the pineal gland, which is responsible for regulating your sleep-wake cycle and so much more.
- Keep the nervous system in a low-grade state of alert, preventing the full shift into the parasympathetic “rest-and-restore” state.
- Delay or alter cellular repair processes.
So, while you’re being told that your device is helping you understand your body better, it may actually be interfering with the very rhythms it’s observing and giving you feedback on. So, is it real or an illusion?
The indoctrinated, mechanistic approach to health sells a belief that health must be managed, tracked, and corrected from the outside in. And that wearable technology is the perfect extension to be able to do that. Implying or suggesting that you need an app to know your body, a graph to tell you if you’re well, and a goal to justify rest.
Let’s burst the bubble…
Health is not a number. It’s not a percentage or a coloured point on a screen. Being healthy is your body’s ability to adapt to life’s stresses – physically, chemically and emotionally. And that’s something no device can quantify. Wearable health tech should support your self-awareness—not replace it.
If you’ve been using wearables to track your health, ask yourself:
- What am I gaining, and what might I be giving up?
- Do I trust my device more than my own body signals?
- Am I surrendering the responsibility for my health to an app?
- When was the last time I listened, attuned and trusted my body instead of an app?
One important truth of the body is that it is always wanting to express health. Even in the midst of imbalance, your body’s desire is to adapt, self-heal, self-maintain, self-regulate and self-regenerate. This doesn’t require a sensor. It requires listening, presence, and trust. At Vital Wellbeing, we support you attuning to your body, learning to listen and to trust the feedback it gives. What would it look like to take a break from health tracking? To spend one day—or one week—tuning in instead of logging in?
This isn’t about abandoning all tech. It’s about balance. About remembering that your body is not a machine, it does indeed speak to you every day—not in codes or vibrations, but in a physical, chemical and emotional way.
Let’s not let the noise of devices drown out the whisper of our own wisdom.
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