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Growth happens in stillness. The metal must cool to harden. Sleep stage tracking, HRV and RHR trends, recovery scoring, and VO2 Max, pulled from Apple Health and synthesized into actionable insight. SomaForge doesn't just count hours. It understands recovery.
- Recovery data streams from Apple Health
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- Continuous monitoring synced via Apple HealthKit
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Hours slept is not recovery.
Apple Health shows you slept 7 hours. It doesn't tell you that your HRV dropped 20% because you trained legs, drank at dinner, and skipped magnesium.
It doesn't tell you that your RHR has been creeping up for two weeks, the same two weeks your training volume spiked 30%.
Sleep trackers count hours. They don't understand recovery.
The full picture of recovery.
Five data streams from Apple Health, synthesized into one recovery picture. Every metric contextualized by training load, medication timing, and nutrition.
- Sleep Stage Tracking
- Deep, REM, light, and awake stages pulled directly from Apple Health. See the architecture of your sleep, not just the duration.
- HRV Trends
- Heart rate variability tracked over days, weeks, and months. The single best window into your autonomic nervous system and recovery state.
- Resting Heart Rate
- Daily RHR trends that reveal overtraining, illness onset, and adaptation. A rising baseline is a signal most people miss.
- Recovery Scoring
- Synthesizes sleep quality, HRV, and RHR into a single recovery score. Know at a glance whether today is a push day or a pull-back day.
- VO2 Max & SpO2
- Aerobic fitness estimation and blood oxygen saturation from Apple Health. Long-term cardiovascular health markers that contextualize everything else.
Sleep is not optional. It’s the foundation.
The science is unambiguous. Recovery quality determines training output, hormonal health, injury resilience, and body composition. These are not opinions.
10-15%
One week of restricted sleep reduces testosterone by 10-15%.
HRV
HRV is among the strongest non-invasive predictors of recovery readiness.
1.7x
Sleep deprivation increases injury risk by 1.7x.
GH
The majority of growth hormone is released during deep sleep.
Recovery doesn't exist in isolation.
Hypnos connects to every other pillar in SomaForge. Training, medication, nutrition, they all shape your recovery, and recovery shapes them all back.
- Soma + HypnosSoma's training readiness score starts here. If your recovery score is 40%, Hypnos tells you: don't chase a PR today. The forge needs to cool before the next strike.
- Pharmakon + HypnosPharmakon logs melatonin at 11pm. Hypnos shows deep sleep increased 22% on melatonin nights. Nous surfaces the pattern and refines the recommendation.
- Trophe + HypnosTrophe shows caffeine intake after 2pm. Hypnos shows a deep sleep drop on those nights. Nous flags the correlation so you don't have to guess.