I wouldn’t pay 60k for anyone, but I will say she does offer a great service… monthly meetings in your own home etc
Having the watch hooked up to AI is a great idea!
I didn’t realize Whoop could consolidate info from various sources… It’s great to see things going in the right direction.
I have enjoyed uploading my past labs to Good Labs in order to have more comprehensive ‘care’ from their AI. There is room for improvement and incorporating info from other wearables would be a great step.
I’m excited that bp wearables are going to be accessible any day now.
Can’t wait for this to go on sale in the US! A wearable blood pressure band for continuous monitoring is something I have wanted since I got deeply into wearable tech.
On the topic of monitoring BP (but not cuffless), @DrFraser has been “hyping” the ‘Conneqt Pulse Device for Monitoring Vascular Health’. Should I, as an interested ‘civilian’ , purchase one? What do people think?
It seems very interesting… almost like a Pulse Wave Velocity measure, but not quite…
Market Analysis: CONNEQT Pulse Availability
A comprehensive real-time market search indicates that the CONNEQT Pulse device is currently subject to a closed-distribution model. CardieX, the parent company, restricts sales exclusively to its direct-to-consumer and direct-to-clinic platform. Consequently, compiling a “Top 10” list of distinct, variable-cost vendors is not feasible. A secondary or wholesale retail market for this specific hardware does not yet exist.
Verified Pricing and Primary Source
At present, there is only one verified commercial source for acquiring the device.
Includes 30 days of Care+ access. FDA-cleared. Requires completion of a physician intake form during checkout.
Note: Recent marketing data indicates the manufacturer periodically offers discount codes (e.g., $60 off via code “HEARTMONTH”), which can temporarily reduce the initial capital outlay.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Considerations
From a procurement perspective, the initial hardware expenditure is only a fraction of the total cost. The CONNEQT Pulse relies on a proprietary software ecosystem. While basic biometric measurements remain functional without ongoing fees, full longitudinal tracking and comprehensive cardiology reporting require subsequent purchases.
Care+ Subscription: Following the 30-day trial, ongoing monthly reports and unlimited on-demand assessments necessitate a subscription priced at $24.99/month or $199.00/year via the CONNEQT App.
A La Carte Assessments: A 10-pack of On-Demand Assessments is available for $99.00 for users who opt out of the subscription model.
Hardware Accessories: Replacement cuffs are priced at $20.00, and protective cases at $30.00 via the CONNEQT Accessories Shop.
It works by de-embedding the pressure pulse from its reflections. That’s a real effect. I’ve designed ultrasound systems doing exactly that so I can attest that it works.
Here is my feedback after 6 weeks of use.
I use it every morning before my coffee as caffeine will impact the results.
The way I use it: I make a bunch of measurements until they get stable.
For instance a few min after I sit down it can be at 110 then 104 then the following measurements oscillate around 102. I do at least 5 measurements in the stable period and throw away the highest and lowest ones to remove outliers.
Here is the monthly report. The first report is free then you have to take a subscription but it’s totally useless as the report just averages the measures that are already in the app.
This sounds like ‘buy the device, get the first free report, but after that, forget the report and just look at what the device outputs’, or are you saying something more nuanced?
That’s exactly that. There is nothing in the report that is not in the app. You just get the monthly average for the values but looking at the values is more informative than the average anyway.
Why the brain, and why now? Temple is developing a wearable designed to sit on the side of the head, near the wearer’s temple. Its aim is to continuously track cerebral blood flow – essentially, how much blood is reaching different parts of the brain over time. That may sound clinical, but the underlying idea is surprisingly intuitive.
If the heart is the engine of the body, the brain is the command center. And just like any high-performance engine, it depends on fuel. In this case, that fuel is oxygen-rich blood. When blood flow shifts, cognitive performance can shift with it – affecting focus, reaction time and decision-making under pressure.In a January podcast conversation, Goyal described Temple’s ambition as building “the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes,” capable of measuring metrics that current devices cannot. Unlike wrist-worn trackers or smart rings, which primarily monitor heart rate, sleep cycles and activity, Temple is aiming higher up the body [2].
Most wearables today use the heart as a proxy for performance. Temple wants to look at the brain directly. It is a bold claim in a market where companies like Oura, Whoop and Garmin have spent years refining hardware and building trust with athletes. Those devices already offer increasingly sophisticated data on recovery and strain.
Temple’s wager is that the next frontier is not just how hard your heart is working, but what your brain is doing while it happens.
Tracking cerebral blood flow has traditionally required bulky machines in controlled environments. Temple’s challenge is to shrink that into something wearable, comfortable and reliable.
Introducing Brain Flow™
Blood flow to the brain is a proven signal of health and aging. Until now, it’s been hard to measure. Temple tracks Brain Flow, a proxy metric based on this very blood flow to the brain.
All of you, in one place
Track heart rate, HRV, sleep patterns, periods, activity levels, VO2 Max, and more to get an all-round view of your health.
Built for your temple
At the temple, skin is thin and rich with capillaries allowing for better readings. Worn using our gentle medical-grade tapes, Temple is comfortable, easy to wear, and non-invasive.
I am recommending all of my patients go over to this device as it is a technological advancement on the limited approach using brachial blood pressures. I have a lot of patients with abnormal values, and making small interventions, or trialing one class of medication vs. another gives an N=1 approach on exactly what works for your vascular health. As much as we can make logical choices as physicians on what we think is the best choice to optimize a given individual’s numbers, actually getting this detailed feedback on all these parameters gives a better picture. Also interventions like increasing potassium to 3:1 ratio to sodium with sodium being limited to 1500-2000 mg and optimizing Nitrous Oxide all have interesting beneficial effects. However, this detailed data gives us better feedback on interventions than simply a brachial pressure.
@RapAdmin I wonder how much Temple adds simply to knowing central blood pressure and central pulse pressure, along with knowing that your vertebrals and carotids are wide open with no disease on MRA head/neck?
It’s a marketing scam. Nothing more than other trackers like Oura, whoops, etc.
They start by a true assertion:
Then they tell you what they really do (Note that Brain Flow is not the Blood Flow they mention above):
Basically they measure the peripheral blood at the temple.
Then they give you the measurements they take in which nothing relates to the blood flow to the brain.
Note that Oura, Whoops and the like already do all that + other things too.
Sadly they don’t do any of that. I’ve put above what they measure and pressure is not in them.
The CONNEQT Pulse discussed above in the thread is based on real science but not this.
Congratulation for them to raise 54M for basically taping an Oura ring to the temple!
A perfect fit for the current pseudo-science environment.
I got my CONNEQT BPM several days ago. At first I thought the product was just a very expensive bpm. After using it for three days I have changed my opinion and am considering retiring my OMRON bpm in favor of the CONNEQT device.
What do people think?
