Health Wearables Might Not Be Your Friends.  By Joshua Stylman.

I want to believe in RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement. …

But when RFK told Congress this week that “it is my vision that every American is wearing a wearable within four years,” announcing that HHS is “about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables” — devices like smartwatches, fitness trackers, and continuous glucose monitors — we’re confronting a contradiction that cuts to the heart of what human wellness actually means. …

Wearables — who benefits?

The wearables agenda represents something far more insidious than surveillance: the industrialization of human self-awareness. When you ask your device how you slept instead of feeling it yourself, when you check your phone to see if you’re stressed instead of noticing your breath, you’re participating in the systematic outsourcing of embodied consciousness to algorithmic interpretation.

Biometric data – the digital measurements of your biological processes like heart rate, sleep patterns, stress levels, and movement – becomes more trusted than your own nervous system. This is the opposite direction from authentic wellness.

Real health emerges from developing sensitivity to your body’s signals, learning to read the subtle communications between mind and biology, cultivating the kind of somatic intelligence that has guided human thriving for millennia. Wearables can atrophy this capacity rather than enhance it.

When your wearable transmits data showing you missed workouts, had poor sleep, or experienced stress spikes, insurance companies can adjust your rates or deny claims based on “lifestyle factors.” The same data helps employers identify “high-risk” employees for layoffs or pass-overs for promotion. What gets sold as personal empowerment becomes a permanent record that can be used against you. …

Wearables can testify in court against you:

Your biometric data isn’t like other information you can control or change. It’s permanent, uniquely you, and reveals patterns about your health, behavior, reproductive cycles, stress responses, and psychological state that you might not even know yourself. Once harvested, it becomes a permanent asset in databases that can be bought, sold, hacked, or weaponized — including intimate details about fertility windows, pregnancy indicators, and family planning decisions.

The implications are already playing out in real-world applications. As CNET reported in 2018, devices like Alexa, Fitbit, Apple Watch, and even pacemakers can testify against you in court — a trend that has only accelerated since then.

Your wearable doesn’t just monitor your health — it creates a permanent legal record that can be subpoenaed and used in divorce proceedings, employment disputes, or criminal cases. Poor sleep patterns could suggest substance abuse. Irregular heart rhythms might indicate lying. Stress spikes could correlate with “behavioral problems.” …

You become just a managed data stream in the Internet of Bodies:

The WEF’s own materials reveal how wearables serve as a crucial component in their comprehensive digital identity strategy. …

The promise of “health optimization” masks something far more profound: the transformation of human beings from conscious biological entities into managed data streams. When your wearable becomes the mediator between you and your own physical experience, you’ve lost something fundamental about what it means to inhabit a human body. …

What makes RFK’s timeline “inevitable” isn’t consumer demand — it’s the systematic elimination of alternatives through economic coercion. … Wearables represent one component of a comprehensive digital control grid where your access to healthcare, employment, and basic services becomes conditional on continuous biological monitoring. …

Palantir’s Head of Public Health has been working since 2020 to expand these surveillance technologies across HHS, CDC, FDA, and other public health agencies under the guise of COVID-19 response.

The researchers developing what they openly call the “Internet of Bodies” aren’t planning to stop at wrist-worn devices. The trajectory leads to injectable sensors, neural interfaces, and biological systems that network your cells directly to digital infrastructure. This isn’t theoretical — as far back as 2017, the FDA approved Abilify MyCite, a pill embedded with sensors that alerts doctors when you swallow it, transmitting data to mobile apps and online platforms accessible to caregivers and physicians. …

Resist:

If MAHA represents a genuine movement toward biological sovereignty, it must confront the contradiction between health freedom and health surveillance. Making America healthy again cannot mean making Americans into monitored nodes in a digital control grid. …

The first act of resistance is remembering you don’t need a device to tell you how you feel.