What’s New:

• New features¹  include Bedtime Guidance², to optimize your sleep; Vascular Load³, which measures stress on your vascular system while sleeping; Running Coach⁴, to help strategize your training; and Antioxidant Index⁵, to measure your carotenoids for healthy aging.
• The new features are part of One UI 8 Watch, which will be available on the newest Galaxy Watch series. Starting from this month, the features can be experienced through a beta program⁶ to a limited number of Galaxy Watch users.

Why it Matters: 

The goal of these new features is to help you build healthier daily habits, which can be challenging because they don’t develop instantly. It takes time to accumulate these behavior patterns, and meaningful changes are often only apparent after a long period. But the rewards are worth it.

• For example, eating unhealthy food may not immediately impact your health, but over time, it can have significant consequences.
• Conversely, adopting healthy habits may not show immediate results, but over time, they lead to positive changes in your body and mind.
• Samsung Health’s new features aim to help you develop healthy habits by motivating you through instant feedback on your health. These features inspire you to maintain your habits by providing rewards or warning signs and demonstrating immediate impact of your behaviors.

“Sleep remains a cornerstone of our approach to health, as it influences physical and mental well-being, social relationships and even work performance,” said Dr. Hon Pak, Senior Vice President and Head of Digital Health Team, Mobile eXperience, Samsung Electronics. “Now, we envision our Galaxy Watch delivering holistic insights centered around sleep — insights that lead to meaningful changes in daily life. We believe this aligns with our vision of empowering you to lead healthier lives through proactive care and holistic health management.”

Explore New Health Features

Samsung Health’s new features aim to help users develop healthy habits, using instant health feedback as a motivating tool.

A single night of restful sleep offers immediate health benefits, encouraging more proactive behavior changes and leading to a healthier tomorrow. This starts with a regular and optimal bedtime.

• We constantly seek to advance our sleep-related tools, which include sleep pattern analysis, sleep coaching, and optimizing sleep environments. They also include the feature that detects signs of sleep apnea⁷— a sleep disorder — and help you take proactive steps.
• Now, we are providing additional tools for better sleep by suggesting an optimal bedtime based on your lifestyle and sleep patterns while sending reminders to help you stick to it.
• By analyzing your past three days’ sleep patterns, the feature evaluates your need for sleep pressure and your circadian rhythm to calculate a bedtime that maximizes alertness the next day.
• This feature is particularly helpful for those trying to optimize their sleep after periods of irregular bedtimes. For example, if you go to bed later than planned over several days, or have inconsistent sleep schedules between weekdays and weekends, the bedtime guidance will consider these factors to ensure you get enough sleep.

Sleep is a window into overall health, as it impacts holistic well-being. Galaxy Watch uses this opportunity to measure vascular load — the amount of stress on your vascular system while sleeping.

• The vascular system carries blood throughout the body to deliver oxygen and nutrients and remove waste, making it a strong indicator to determine good heart health.
• During sleep, stress on your vascular system should naturally dip; however, excessive fluctuations can negatively impact cardiovascular health.
• Simply wear your Watch while sleeping, and it will measure your vascular load, providing insights into the stress on your vascular system.
• Additionally, since all health factors are interconnected, the feature also provides insights into lifestyle factors such as sleep, exercise, and stress to help you maintain a healthier lifestyle and develop positive habits.

While sleep is a precious time to cultivate and care for your health, managing your health during active moments is equally important. Running is one of the most basic and universally available fitness activities, and Samsung has long sought to support runners, offering features to help everyone stay active and achieve their fitness goals.

• Many runners face injuries due to over-pacing or are not optimally pushing themselves. Running Coach is designed to help runners safely complete marathons through optimized-intensity and injury-preventive training, making it ideal for beginners.
• Our new Running Coach feature delivers motivation and real-time guidance, creating a unique training program based on your fitness level to help you achieve your goals.
• Just wear your watch and run for 12 minutes; it will analyze your performance and running level from 1-10. You’ll receive a detailed training plan to help you complete a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or full marathon based on your level. Complete your training session, and you’ll level up and unlock your next running challenge.

When taking a holistic approach to health, we naturally focus on aging and inspiring healthy aging. However, behavioral factors, such as drinking alcohol, smoking, UV exposure, stress and lack of sleep, can accelerate aging by increasing free radicals in the body. These free radicals damage cells and accelerate aging. Antioxidants, nutrients found in many healthy foods, are molecules that neutralize these free radicals, helping prevent chronic illnesses and promote healthy aging.

• Use Galaxy Watch to measure carotenoids, which are antioxidants found in green and orange vegetables and fruits, stored in your skin.
• Galaxy Watch employs an industry-first feature to measure carotenoids in just five seconds via its advanced, light-activated BioActive sensor.
• These insights reflect behavioral changes. For example, drinking carrot juice can show changes in the index, providing motivation to adopt healthier habits.

Great health comes from the combination of many small changes — and with Galaxy Watch, it is now possible overnight.

¹Samsung Health features are intended for general wellness and fitness purposes only. The measurements are for your personal reference only. Please consult a medical professional for advice. Samsung account login required. Vascular Load, Running Coach and Antioxidant Index are available on Android phones (Android 10 or above) and requires the Samsung Health app (v6.30.2 or later). Vascular Load and Antioxidant Index are Labs features that you can preview before its official launch. If you don’t want to use these experimental features, you can turn them off in Samsung Health settings.
²Not intended for use in detection, diagnosis, treatment of any medical condition or sleep disorder. Bedtime guidance is available on Android phone (Android 11 and above) requires Samsung Health app (v6.30.2 or later). It is based on 3 days of sleep analysis of user’s circadian rhythm and sleep pressure.
³Service only available with Galaxy Watch Ultra or later released Galaxy Watch Series. To measure vascular load, it is required to wear Galaxy Watch when sleeping for at least 3 days out of recent 14 days.
⁴Service only available with Galaxy Watch7 Series or later released Galaxy Watch Series. To use running coach program, user needs to take a running level test and get a level before starting the coach program.
⁵Service only available with Galaxy Watch Ultra or later released Galaxy Watch Series. To measure, place the center of your finger on the sensor at the back of the Watch and hold it for 5 seconds. While Anti-oxidant index can be measured using any finger, the thumb is recommended for the most accurate result. Repeat measurement due to uneven skin texture may lead to inaccurate results.
⁶Users based in South Korea and the U.S. with Galaxy Watch (Galaxy Watch5 or later released Galaxy Watch series) are eligible to join the beta program.
⁷The Sleep Apnea feature is an over-the-counter (OTC), software-only, mobile medical application operating on a compatible Samsung Galaxy Watch and Phone. This feature is intended to detect signs of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea in the form of significant breathing disruptions in adult users 22 years and older, over a two-night monitoring period. It is intended for on demand use. This feature is not intended for users who have previously been diagnosed with sleep apnea. Users should not use this feature to replace traditional methods of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified clinician. The data provided by this device is also not intended to assist clinicians in diagnosing sleep disorders. Availability may vary by market, carrier, model or a paired smartphone.

We all strive to be the best version of ourselves – fitter, happier and healthier. Small changes to our daily routines, including changes to diet, sleep habits, and exercise, go a long way in helping us get the most out of work and play.

While the path to wellness is different for everyone, there’s nothing more important than to start focusing on our health from young.

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 series takes health and fitness data tracking to the next level, featuring a groundbreaking BioActive Sensor, which uses a single chip to precisely run three powerful health sensors, including Optical Heart Rate, Electrical Heart, and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis.

From monitoring blood pressure ^1A-B, taking electrocardiography (ECG) measurements ², measuring blood oxygen levels ³, and for the first time – calculating body composition ⁴ – read on to discover three ways you can make the most out of the cutting-edge data presented by the Galaxy Watch 4.

1. Get a good night’s sleep, everyday

Are you guilty of revenge bedtime procrastination? If so, is there a nagging thought in your head that it might be affecting sleep quality? You can now find out with the Galaxy Watch 4’s sleep analysis function.

The sleep analysis function has been a fan favorite for users of the Galaxy Watch series, and rightly so – a good night’s sleep is fundamental to our overall mental and physical health. In fact, in the past year, Galaxy Watch users have checked their sleep patterns more than 800 million times ⁵!

To give you a more comprehensive understanding of your sleep quality, the Galaxy Watch 4 tracks both your snoring and breathing patterns – so you can make informed decisions about your sleep to help you sleep longer and better.

The Samsung Health App ⁶ on your smartphone detects the sounds of your snores, while the Watch 4 checks your blood oxygen levels once every second ⁷. This data collectively informs your overall sleep score.

If you find yourself struggling to get a good night’s sleep based on your Watch 4’s readings, you can consider following these steps ⁸ to improve your sleep score:

• Establish a daily bedtime routine
  You sleep best when your body is used to falling asleep and waking up at a fixed time every day — even on weekends or holidays.
• Watch what you eat and drink before
  Avoid big meals, alcohol, caffeine, heavy, spicy, or sugary foods four to six hours before bedtime, as these foods stimulate the system, making sleeping difficult.
•  Create a good sleep environment for yourself
  Block out all distracting noises and lights. A room that is too hot or too cold can keep you awake. A cool environment is often the most conducive setting for sleeping.

2. Accurately track fitness and health goals through body composition

Many of us may be more familiar with relying on weighing scale readings as a general indicator of health – but there are limitations to this. Such readings do not consider the amount of muscle, fat, and water in your body tissues ⁹, unlike a more comprehensive body composition analysis.

For the first time in a Galaxy Watch, the body composition measurement tool on the Galaxy Watch4 brings a technology more commonly available in smart scales at the gym or at the clinic to your wrists!

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This is enabled by Bioelectrical Impedence Analysis (BIA), which captures 2,400 data points, delivering results in about 15 seconds. Quality isn’t compromised either – with a correlation of 98%, the Galaxy Watch4’s BIA measurements are as accurate as those from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans ¹⁰, the gold standard of body composition measurements trusted by industry experts.

With these insights, you can now adjust your diet and activity levels to get your body composition measurements to a healthier range.

3. Monitor your key health indicators regularly

On top of advanced sleep and body composition tracking, Samsung’s Bioactive Sensor also monitors blood pressure ¹¹.

Generally, a healthy blood pressure reading should be lower than 120/80 mmHg, while a blood pressure of 140/90 mmHg or higher indicates high blood pressure ^12,13,14. This can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of developing kidney failure, coronary heart disease, and stroke.

To maintain healthy blood pressure, you can consider practicing the following lifestyle and diet habits ¹⁵:

• Moderate your sodium intake
  Studies have provided strong evidence that lowering sodium intake is beneficial in reducing blood pressure.
• Increase intake of fiber-rich food
  Whole grains, fruits, and vegetables are high in fiber, magnesium, and potassium – beneficial foods that lower blood pressure. In addition, aim for two servings of fruits and two servings of vegetables per day.
• Limit fat intake
  Dietary fat is high in calories and excessive intake can lead to weight gain and increase your risk of developing high blood pressure. Use less oil when cooking and remove all visible fat before eating. Select healthier cooking methods such as steaming, boiling, and grilling instead of deep-frying.
• Limit alcohol consumption
  Frequent consumption of alcohol causes your heart to pump harder and faster, thereby increasing blood pressure. If you choose to drink, moderate your intake of alcoholic drinks to not more than one standard drink per day.

Ultimately, the simplest routines and habits can go a long way in helping us optimize our personal health and fitness. With the Galaxy Watch4, Samsung brings years of R&D and cutting-edge technologies to your wrist, providing advanced insights distilled into an easy-to-digest interface, guiding you towards making informed decisions that optimize your health, fitness, and overall wellness.

[1A] The Blood Pressure feature is only available in select markets. To ensure accuracy, users should calibrate their device every four weeks with a traditional blood pressure cuff. The BP app cannot diagnose hypertension, other conditions, or check for signs of a heart attack. This app can only be used for measuring in ages 22 and over. It is not meant to replace traditional methods of diagnosis or treatment by a qualified healthcare professional.

[1B] Requires Samsung Galaxy Smartphone with Android 7 or later, and Samsung Health Monitor app which is available only at the Samsung Galaxy app store. Due to country restrictions in acquiring approval/registration as a medical device, Samsung Health Monitor app only works on watches and smartphones purchased in the countries where service is currently available.

[2] The ECG feature is only available in select markets.

[3] The Blood Oxygen (SpO2) feature is not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease. Intended for general wellness and fitness purposes only. Availability of this feature may vary by market.

[4] Intended for general wellness and fitness purposes only. Not intended for use in detection, diagnosis, or treatment of any medical condition or disease. The measurements are for the user’s personal reference only. Please consult a medical professional for advice. Do not measure your body composition if you have an implanted pacemaker or other implanted medical devices. Do not measure your body composition if you are pregnant. Measurement results may not be accurate if you are under 20 years old. Availability of this feature may vary by market.

[5] Samsung Galaxy Unpacked August 2021, at 5:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ixp-XwqGI

[6] Availability of Samsung Health app differs across markets.

[7] Samsung Galaxy Unpacked August 2021, at 5:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ixp-XwqGI

[8] Adapted from Ministry of Health, Singapore: 3 Ways to Improve Sleep Quality: https://www.healthhub.sg/live-healthy/1189/are-you-getting-quality-sleep

[9] Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., Professor, Metabolism & Body Composition, Pennington Biomedical Research Center – 0:44 onwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sFa6HWkseU

[10] Samsung Galaxy Unpacked August 2021, at 10:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ixp-XwqGI

[11] Availability differs across markets.

[12] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US: High Blood Pressure Symptoms and Causes https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm

[13] Ministry of Health, Singapore: High Blood Pressure: Understanding Blood Pressure (BP) Readings https://www.healthhub.sg/a-z/diseases-and-conditions/735/Understanding-Blood-Pressure-Readings

[14] Guidelines used to diagnose high blood pressure may differ with different healthcare professionals. Always consult a healthcare professional for guidance on healthy blood pressure range for yourself.

[15] Adapted from Ministry of Health, Singapore: High Blood Pressure: Healthy Eating Guide https://www.healthhub.sg/a-z/diseases-and-conditions/609/High-Blood-Pressure-Healthy-eating-guide