SpO₂ estimates the percentage of hemoglobin carrying oxygen, which can matter because sustained or repeated changes may reflect breathing, circulation, altitude, or measurement limitations.
Contextualizes breathing during sleep, respiratory illness, altitude exposure, recovery strain, and symptom-matched low-oxygen warnings.
No universal wearable target is encoded; repeated same-device changes, signal quality, altitude, symptoms, and any clinician-specific target matter more than maximizing the number.
Altitude, illness, sleep apnea, perfusion, movement, sensor fit, nail polish, skin pigmentation, smoke exposure, and device limits.
Ranked by evidence, biomarker relevance, and how cleanly it can be measured at home.

Sauna is a heat-stress and recovery experiment, not an oxygenation intervention; stable SpO2 is a guardrail rather than proof the protocol is working.

Aerobic interval training targets fitness, not resting oxygen saturation; use SpO2 as a safety and illness-context check rather than the success marker.