Male Health
Male-specific signal the system rarely catches in time. Prostate, urology, androgen-axis, sleep.
Men present late, undermeasured, and through symptom rather than signal. The bathroom is the one place male-specific physiology shows up daily. Acoustic uroflowmetry, urine biochemistry, and behaviour combine into a long-arc signal that primary care does not currently hold.
Issues that live here
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BPH (prostate enlargement)
Catch prostate change from urinary flow signal, longitudinally, before symptom referral.
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Testosterone & androgen-axis decline
Read androgen-axis decline through daily urinary signal and behaviour, without monthly bloodwork.
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Nocturia & sleep
Treat nocturia as the daily signal at the intersection of prostate, sleep, and aging risk.
Issues that touch Male Health
Primary home is elsewhere. They show up here because the work cuts across.
- Cross-cutting
Gut, GLP-1 & metabolic
The toilet as the first daily feedback loop for the GLP-1 era. Gut, metabolic, microbiome.
- Cross-cutting
Athletic recovery & hydration
Recovery, hydration, and training-load signal from the bathroom for serious athletes.
- Cross-cutting
UTI (delirium + sepsis cascade)
Break the UTI → delirium → sepsis cascade. Roughly one in three sepsis cases starts as a UTI, and untreated infection is a leading driver of hospitalization and loss of independence in older adults. This is the smart-seat wedge.
- Cross-cutting
CHF (congestive heart failure)
Catch CHF decompensation at home from daily heart, weight, and fluid signal, before the ED visit.
- Cross-cutting
STI (sexually transmitted infections)
Catch chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and other STIs from passive urine signal. Restore the screening continuity primary care has lost.
- Cross-cutting
Migraine
Catch migraine prodrome from hydration, autonomic, and hormonal signal in the room people already use. Three times the prevalence in women; ~78B/yr in US lost productivity.
- Cross-cutting
Residential standard (BHOS-spec)
A BHOS-spec for the residential bathroom. Interoperable, privacy-first, deployable at scale.
- Cross-cutting
Public-health surveillance
Anonymous, cohort-level surveillance from bathroom signal, done in a way the public will accept.