Female Health
The long-arc female cohort. Cycle, fertility, IVF, pregnancy, perimenopause.
Female health is treated as a series of episodes the system loses track of between visits. The bathroom is the continuity layer. Passive hormone, cycle, and biochemistry signal across the entire arc, from menarche to post-menopause, without requiring an app the user has to remember.
Issues that live here
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Cycle & fertility
Continuous cycle and fertility signal from urinary hormones, without an app.
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IVF continuity
Continuous home signal across an IVF cycle to reduce blind days between clinic visits.
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High-risk pregnancy & post-partum
Daily signal for high-risk pregnancy and post-partum recovery from the room people already use.
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Perimenopause & menopause
The long arc the system abandons. Make perimenopause visible from passive daily signal.
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STI (sexually transmitted infections)
Catch chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and other STIs from passive urine signal. Restore the screening continuity primary care has lost.
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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.
Issues that touch Female Health
Primary home is elsewhere. They show up here because the work cuts across.
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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.
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Microbiome
Long-arc microbiome signal as the connecting tissue across gut, immunity, and metabolic health.
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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.
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CHF (congestive heart failure)
Catch CHF decompensation at home from daily heart, weight, and fluid signal, before the ED visit.
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Residential standard (BHOS-spec)
A BHOS-spec for the residential bathroom. Interoperable, privacy-first, deployable at scale.
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Public-health surveillance
Anonymous, cohort-level surveillance from bathroom signal, done in a way the public will accept.