No, Tracking Your Heart Rate When Taking Drugs Won't Keep You Safe

Activity trackers with heart rate monitors have become mainstays in our training routines, but they’ve also been lauded for more serious benefits as well In fact, some trackers have even been praised for warning their users about possible life-threatening health complications, like the man whose Apple Watch alerted him to a pulmonary embolism Advertisement - Continue Reading Below But now, some people are using their heart rate monitors to track an extremely unhealthy pursuit: illegal drug use, as CNBC reports. Many activity trackers on the market provide measures of your resting heart rate—the number of times per minute your heart beats when you’re at ease—as well as your heart rate when you’re engaging in more strenuous activity Athletes use these differences to gauge how hard they’re working in a particular session But changes in resting heart rate when you’re not exerting yourself can point to something more serious going on in your body.

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