by Bruce Brown | March 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Sweat suffers a bad rap, but Gatorade may change sweat’s status with a new biomarker patch. We’ve written many times about sweat’s potential as a source of medical biomarkers. Most recently we covered UK startup Sweati’s ongoing development of...
by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2017 | General News, Health
Dehydration is over-rated. There was no scientific basis when the U.S Health and Nutrition Board’s 1945 recommended that adults drink 84.5 ounces a day, which most people referred to then as now as “eight glasses a day.” According to the University...
by Kimberly Houston | October 12, 2017 | General News, Health
Maybe you got a fitness tracker like Fitbit and were eager to begin tracking your activity, exercise, sleep, and weight to improve your health. But like many Americans, you found it inconvenient to use and no longer wear it much. Or perhaps you have health issues that...
by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2017 | General News, Health
Change is hard. It’s difficult enough to change our own behavior, even when we know we’d be better off. Setting out to motivate, inspire, challenge, force, influence, or just plain old lead people to behaviors that encourage better health and higher...
by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
From firefighters to military personnel, from athletes to office workers, from babies to elderly people, undetected dehydration can threaten health in a variety of ways. Untreated diabetes, kidney disease, and medications that increase urination can result in...