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The Sleep Episode: WHOOP Director of Analytics Emily Capodilupo answers everything you want to know about sleep.

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What's Your Respiratory Rate?

Respiratory rate is the number of breaths per minute and we measure it only during sleep. It's telling you something very similar to what your resting heart rate is, which is why we didn't initially surface it. We do that because it helps us in our sleep staging algorithm. So over the last month, my respiratory rate has ranged from like 14.4 to 14.7,. And so the any kind of deviation from normal is really easy to see and it tends to be significant.

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