Amazon.com Product Description
Your quality of sleep is central to your quality of life. Zeo is
designed to help you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be
your best every day. Zeo tells you how you really sleep, and helps you
find ways to improve your sleep. It's composed of a lightweight
wireless headband, a bedside display, a set of analytical online tools,
and an email-based personalized coaching program.
 The Zeo Bedside Display puts last night's sleep data at your fingertips and will store up to two weeks of data for easy viewing.
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Sleep With Zeo
Step 1: Wear the Zeo Headband
You begin by wearing the Zeo Headband each night. The headband uses our
patent-pending SoftWave sensor technology to accurately and safely
measure your unique sleep patterns through the electrical signals
naturally produced by the brain. As you pass through different levels
of sleep--lighter to deeper and back again--the Zeo Headband tracks how
you are sleeping.
Step 2: Review Your Sleep Data on the Bedside Display
The Zeo Bedside Display puts last night's sleep data at your fingertips
and will store up to two weeks of data for easy viewing. When you wake
up, it gives you a personal sleep score - your ZQ - and shows a graph
of your Light, Deep and REM sleep over the course of the night. The
bedside display will also present you with information about last
night's sleep and how it compares to previous nights. The optional
SmartWake alarm feature will look for a "natural awakening point" based
on your sleep patterns to decrease the grogginess associated with
waking from Deep sleep. When SmartWake is selected, Zeo will find a
time to wake you within a half-hour of your set time, never later. The
result should be a slightly easier way to wake up
 The Zeo Headband accurately and safely measures your unique sleep patterns.
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 Easily
upload all of your sleep information to the myZeo Personal Coaching
website, and begin to spot trends in your sleep that you have never
been able to see before.
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 Using Zeo's online tools, you can begin to understand how your ZQ and morning feel scores change from night to night.
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See Sleep Data
Step 3: Upload and View Your Sleep Data
Your personal sleep discovery doesn't stop with the bedside display!
The Zeo Bedside Display allows you to store your sleep information on
an SD memory card (like the memory cards used with digital cameras).
With your SD card and its USB adapter, you can easily upload all of
your sleep information to the myZeo Personal Coaching website, and
begin to spot trends in your sleep that you have never been able to see
before.
Sleep Journal
Uncover the links
between how you live--including exercise, diet, stress, and
environment--and how you sleep. Available both online and on paper,
your Zeo Sleep Journal allows you to record lifestyle, environmental,
and consumption factors that can disrupt your sleep. You'll learn about
the 7 Sleep Stealers and how much they can affect your sleep data each
night. You can also define your own lifestyle factors to record. The
more sleep stealers you track, the more insights you'll find about how
your actions may be affecting your Sleep Fitness.
Sleep Tools
Using Zeo's online tools, you can begin to understand how your ZQ and
morning feel scores change from night to night. You'll also spot any
connections between your daily lifestyle choices and your nightly sleep
and find out for yourself some of the cause and effect patterns in your
sleep.
 A sleep graph shows how much time you spent in Deep sleep, in Light sleep, in REM sleep, and awake.
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 The Cause & Effect Tool helps you explore how your lifestyle may be affecting your sleep quality.
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 Sleep Fitness Assessments help you track your progress in each step.
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Personal Coach
Step 4: Start Your 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program, Your Personal Guide to a Better Night's Sleep
The 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program is a guided self-discovery process for
your sleep. This personalized sleep coaching program asks you to set
goals for your sleep and then provides you with customized strategies
to help you to achieve these goals. In addition, you can learn more
about the latest sleep research, and receive recommendations on how to
track the items that are most beneficial for you. Through this program,
you'll experience the power of seeing your own sleep data and learn
about which factors may be affecting your sleep. You will have full
control over the program to skip, repeat or start-over any step you
wish. Special features of the program include:
- A series of
personalized e-mails that incorporate effective sleep tips and advice,
customized to your sleep data, lifestyle and goals.
- A customized action plan to deal with each of the 7 Sleep Stealers as they relate to you and your sleep.
- Goal-oriented
assignments that are realistic and achievable, and will not require you
to drastically rearrange your lifestyle or even your sleep style.
- Positive, supportive, and easy to understand suggestions and exercises, in everyday language that is easy to follow.
- The
Zeo Sleep Information Center is an online library for sleep information
and science. In addition to offering another kind of self-guided,
personal coaching tool, you can use the Sleep Information Center to
discover what sleep is, and why it's important.
Zeo Reveals How You Really Sleep
Without Zeo, sleep is a mystery.
Are you getting the restorative Deep and REM sleep you need to be your
best? How long does it really take you to fall asleep? It's practically
impossible to accurately gauge your sleep quality and pinpoint which
factors affect it. Everyone's sleep is different, and there's no
one-size-fits-all solution for getting a better night's rest.
Zeo scores your sleep quantity and quality.
Imagine knowing both the quality of your sleep and the reasons behind
it. Every morning, Zeo will tell you your ZQ--a number that summarizes
your sleep's quantity and quality--and lots of other information about
your sleep. If you can measure it, you can improve it.
For the first time, you can visualize your sleep.
Using Zeo's included web-based tools, you can easily see exactly how--or whether--you slept through the night.
Zeo Helps You Improve Your Sleep
See what's stealing your sleep.
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach will help you understand and minimize the
factors that negatively affect sleep, so you can take control of your
nights. You can use the visual web-based tools to see trends and
cause-and-effect patterns.
Get personalized sleep coaching.
Sign up for the 7 Step Sleep Fitness Program to receive recommendations
and actions plans tailored to you and your sleep. Zeo will help you get
the most from your sleep so you can be your best.
What's in the Box
Zeo Bedside Display, Zeo Headband, Replacement Headband Sensor Pad,
Context Wheel, Power Adapter, SD Memory Card, Card Reader, Getting
Started Guide, Headband Basics Guide, Meet Zeo Reference Manual, Sleep
Journal
Customer Reviews
Good up to a point but some issues.
Overall, I am satisified enough with my Zeo to keep it past the 30
day return period. However, if there was an alternative to the Zeo I
would return this and try the other product.
I too have sleep Apnea, and actually stopped using my CPAP machine
for a year after I first got it. My feeling was that the machine was
waking me up more than Apnea was due to it shutting off and mask leaks.
A second sleep study revealed an outright dangerous situation, and they
had to stop the test after an hour and put me onto a CPAP machine. I
still have a choice of masks, so I wanted to see if a different style
mask would still cause the problem. The Zeo pretty much has ruled out
the CPAP as being a problem, I think. More below.
I also have been trying to stop taking an anti-anxiety medication.
The last time that I tried I developed Syncope, a condition where you
randomly pass out and fall down. It's unclear whether the cause was the
medicine, the Apnea, a combination of the two, or something else, but
the doctors blamed it on the apnea. The Zeo, however, has shown me that
although I fall asleep faster with the med, I don't go into REM or deep
sleep hardly at all. It also showed that as I tapered down the med, it
took me longer and longer to fall asleep, 1 then 2 then 4 hours, but it
was a 'good' sleep. I could determine after a week or so that my sleep
patterns went back to 'normal'. The first time I tried to stop I
started nodding off uncontrollably at my desk, and at least then I knew
enough about what was happening at night to cause it.
I couldn't have tracked and found out these things without the Zeo,
and if it weren't for some other issues I would recommend it without
hesitation.
There are some accuracy issues. I know that I have been regularly
waking up and the Zeo does not record it. This is really important to
me to monitor the above conditions, and in trying to isolate myself
with a sound machine or 'sleep music' cd's and seeing if something else
is waking me up. For instance, I have a feeling that when I turn on my
side the CPAP mask is hitting the pillow and nudging away from my face,
waking me up, but I can't tell for sure.
What really bothers me more than anything is the fact that you can
not get an accurate representation of your sleep without uploading your
sleep data to Zeo. There is no software to run on your PC to see your
sleep info, all of the displays run in your web browser from the Zeo
website, and all data is kept there as well. If something happens to
Zeo, you are left with nothing but a really expensive alarm clock. The
display on the unit does not show the time to fall asleep nor
accurately portray deep sleep, and cannot be saved or printed.
Some people have posted their concerns about privacy of information
as well. I personally don't have a problem with it, but Zeo sells or
will sell or is trying to sell or is thinking about selling (they're
not sure) to third parties. One person pointed out that his sleep data
could be subpoenaed in the event of a traffic accident or something,
and they could say you were not getting enough sleep and caused the
accident. They added an 'opt out' option to their web page, it's not
very prominent but it's there. The individual stated that he would just
use an alias when setting up the web account, probably a good idea.
Privacy issues aside, your sleep data is encrypted and you can not read
it off of the SD card. You can, however, upload your data to the web
site and download a .csv file back so you can import it into a
spreadsheet. It does not, however, resemble anything other than a
string of numbers, you could not read it or graph it. None of these
issues are readily available for reading on their web site, you need to
dig around a bit and find a blog that is addressing them.
Which leads me to my last little gripe. When I posted in their blog
that it was a problem not being able to see the data locally, and I
could not use the device if they went out of business, their response
was that they were on the 'Today' show. Ok, but when I opened up the
Zeo box and checked the contents, I was short a sensor pad. When I
emailed them about it I was told that they stopped including it to save
money since they lowered the price. Doesn't sound like a financially
strong company to me if they have to exclude a little cheap pad.
So, if it wasn't so useful, even with the problems mentioned, I
would return it. If I had known about the data being on the website
only I would have never bought it. But, there really is no alternative
that I know of (especially on the 'Today' show).
The ZEO sleep system is a very useful tool in managing your sleep
I am 57 year old man with severe, complex sleep apnea. I sleep with
a Cpap machine. I have found the ZEO to be an excellent tool to help me
monitor and understand my sleep. A small head strap monitoring device
reads my sleep patterns through the night. The ZEO base station
documents the information. When I wake up I place the headband device
in a cradle in the ZEO base and in a few seconds the data is
transferred. I then remove the data thumb drive from the base station
and plug it into my computer to upload the data and review my sleep
profile from the night before. I can see how long it took me to get to
sleep and a breakdown of time spent in light sleep, deep sleep, REM
sleep and any awakenings throughout the night. I can also view my prior
sleep profiles. After accumulating a week or two of sleep profiles I
get personal feedback and coaching from a ZEO staff member.
The whole system is really well done and ZEO is a tool that I have
come to respect. I am a successful business owner and I am usually
skeptical about many of the new gadgets that come on the market, but
ZEO has made the cut as a very important and useful tool.
ZEO has a 30 day return policy, no questions asked. I assume many
of you have done overnight sleep tests at a sleep clinic. The
information gathered there is more in depth but you only get this data
occasionally. The ZEO fills in the gaps between sleep tests and is
giving me regular and consistent feedback.
One more thing. My sleep doctor here in New Mexico happens to be a
very sharp and committed man who has written one of the best books on
sleep apnea of all the books that I have read. His book, Sound Sleep,
Sound Mind: 7 Keys To Sleeping Through The Night is a must read if you
are having sleep problems and want to know what can be done about it. I
know first-hand how debilitating sleep problems can be. Take charge of
your sleep life and start to live again!
Have trouble sleeping, feel tired every day at 3 PM, go to sleep in 2 minutes and wake up in 4 hours, you need this!
I've been challenged by sleep issues for over 38 years. I've been
to a sleep clink, multiple "sleep" doctors, tried meds from my general
practitioner, etc. and nothing seemed to work. I was resigned to
feeling extremely tired everyday from the time I woke up until I went
to sleep. My friends nicknamed me the "vampire" because I was literally
awake so much of the time. I was able to confirm that I didn't have
apnea via a sleep clink and found that most sleeping pills (Ambien)
were useless for me as I just woke up anyway after a few hours.
I've been using the Zeo regularly for five months now and it's made
a massive difference in my quality of life. I learned within a couple
of nights of use that my sleeping pattern consists of two to three
ninety minute sleep cycles (3 to 4.5 hours), followed by waking up for
two hours and sleeping lightly for another hour or two. I was literally
getting 4.5 to 5.5 hours of sleep in any given 7 to 8 hour period and
thus was constantly tired. I've was able to use the data from the Zeo
(I literally took a print out of the graph from uploaded data from the
[...] website to my doctor) to determine that I needed to consider
medication that would help me stay asleep (The Zeo confirmed that I can
literally go to sleep in 2 to 5 minutes, so that's not my issue.) I'm
now successfully sleeping an average of an hour and forty five minutes
more each day by taking a small dose of a generic drug called
Clonazepam. This costs me $6 / month. I also tried Ambien CR (their
controlled release product) but that costs $140/month on my insurance.
I was able to confirm that there was no practical difference between
the drugs by using my daily Zeo ZQ score. (I started at 50/100 and now
am up around 70/100 on average. I even got 100/100 one day!)
I feel much better and more awake each and every day thanks to this
product. I have used it to control for caffeine, alcohol, travel, kids
waking me up, etc. to get a much better understanding of how all of
these things effect my sleep.
I'm providing a lot of detail in my review primarily to let you
know that the Zeo can help you really figure out in great detail what
is going on for you personally with your sleep. You might need to stop
drinking caffeine earlier in the day (I stop at 2:30 PM now), encourage
your young kids to not wake you up at night (I literally now give my
kids dessert after breakfast, but only if they don't wake us up in the
middle of the night (and yes, this does work)). Zeo can help you figure
out exactly what's going on with your sleep to a much greater and more
detailed extent than any medical professional outside of a sleep lab.
It's proven to be a great value for me and I highly recommend it to
anyone who is challenged with sleep and daily fatigue.
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