One of the most innovative whose least understood updates in Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 8 is the new antioxidant index metric that uses Samsung’s latest bioactive sensor. Unlike sensors that look under the skin to say, blood oxygenation or heartbeat, these focus on new yellow, blue and violet sensors on the surface and measure your level of antioxidants.
According to Samsung leaders who passed us through the Galaxy Watch 8’s latest health options shortly after revealing the new wearables at Samsung Galaxy, unpacked on July 9, and measuring antioxidant levels on the skin relate directly, though not immediately, to your eating habits. Certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables, can raise antioxidant levels in your skin. Having higher antioxidant levels can help ward off illness.
We were shown what looked like a direct correlation between, for example, drinking alcohol during the holidays and how it could lower antioxidant levels. By the way, these levels are represented in a chart you can read on your Samsung Health app.
Even if you put on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 when available on July 25 and have a healthy salad instead of a burger and french fries, the watch cannot immediately read any differences. Antioxidant readings occur somewhat cumulative on the skin and can take a week to emerge.
There is also the question of how to use the new Galaxy Watch 8 sensors.
Now, ironically, it seems that Samsung was working hard to re -understand the Galaxy Watch 8 and its tape adjustment system to bring the clock closer to your skin. My opinion is that these watch trays are sitting on your wrists, so I’m not sure how much closer they can come and the leaders didn’t quite explain it.
Still, it doesn’t matter to this latest sensor. The only way to read your antioxidant levels with Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is to take it off your wrist and press your thumb against the bioactive sensor on the back of it.
We asked why the sensors couldn’t read the antioxidant levels on the wrist and it turned out to be a pretty obvious answer.
“We tried a lot with the measurement on the wrist but there is – we really want to measure from the skin, not the blood. Here [indicates wrist]There are many capillaries. “
In essence, a wrist measurement would look at (or confuse) the blood in these capillaries and not read the skin. When you press your thumb, you actually push all the blood away so that the sensors read the antioxidant levels in the skin more easily.
When I asked why the thumb and not other fingers, it turns out could Get done with your other fingers, but reading with a thumb is just more comfortable.
While this makes perfect sense, this sensor may be used less than others because it is not a passive reading. Instead, it’s more like ECG, where you have to sit still and put a finger on the top button for 20 seconds or so. You actively choose to take this reading, plus you need to take the clock off to do so.
Samsung acknowledged that there is no review that occasionally tells you to take an antioxidant reading, which means this could end up being a slightly used health metration.
Having these antioxidant readings could be useful for understanding your overall well -being as it relates to eating habits, but the other obstacle remembers what you are taking and when, and getting enjoying a diary with their food intake.
I suggested that the upcoming project Moohan glasses (a common XR project between Samsung and Google) be able to help here actively watch and track everything you eat. Samsung Exec said it’s a good idea.
