Wearables for Blood Sugar Tracking: What Works Now and What’s Still Coming
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-wearables-blood-sugar-monitoring/
What’s happening: Atlas emerged from stealth with $14M in funding to launch its multi-modal brain-sensing wearable next year.
On-demand acuity. Designed to track mental clarity in real time, the behind-the-ear nanosensor decodes brain signals to reveal how daily behaviors—from physical activity to phone usage—affect focus and acuity. Its app delivers instant feedback to boost mental performance.
Co-founded by Oxford and Cambridge neuroscientists, Atlas will tap wellness industry vets from Oura, Nest, and Kernel to scale up.
Head game. Breaking from the lab, DTC neurotech is turning brain health into a trainable metric.
Targeting sleep, stress, and meditation, Muse launched a new EEG headband and partnered with alphabeats on athletic flow states. Opting for HEG sensors, Mendi helps users quell anxiety.
Atlas will take on “distraction tech,” training the mind to resist cheap dopamine while empowering its users with strengthened mental resilience.
Get on the waitlist to find out more and get pricing:
Lots of interesting tech in this recent NY Times article: 70 is the new 30? Inspiring Stories of Healthy Longevity - #446 by Tim
@desertshores , perhaps an idea for a redesign & upgrade of your red-light system…
How do you pack 48 hours of recovery into a 24-hour day? By doing five things at once: (1) red-light and (2) multiwave pulsed electric field and pulsed electromagnetic field therapies, which are supposed to help with cell regeneration, tissue healing and inflammation reduction; (3) vibroacoustics (zapping the body with low-frequency sound waves to relieve stress and enhance mood); (4) molecular hydrogen (an antioxidant said to reduce inflammation) inhaled through a nasal cannula; and (5) voice-guided meditation.
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The Ammortal chamber features the following integrated modular technologies:
Full-Body Multi-Wave PEMF & PEF - PEMF/PEF (Range 0.5 Hz - 50 MHz) covering the frequency range of earth-bound electromagnetic fields and beyond
Full-Body Red & NIR Photobiomodulation: 660nm (Red); 850nm (NIR); 100mW/cm2
Full-Body Vibro-acoustics (multi-act ammortal-composed musical journeys)
Voice Guidance (journey-specific guided breathwork, intention-setting, meditations and integrations)
Molecular Hydrogen: 600mL/Min (delivered through nasal cannula)
Oxygen and Ozone (just enough for some room hygiene)
Could I see you about a loan? 
New AI Training App
https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QG0-imperfect-training-that-adapts-to-real-life
Ordered one just now. Scheduled to arrive May 27. One more wearable to test.
Ha, I also ordered one. I hate the subscription models of Oura and Whoop.
Me too.
However, I currently wear both a Whoop MG and an Amazfit Helio Band on my biceps. The Helio is good and the app is getting better. It’s been updated regularly.
The Whoop has some features that are not currently available on other fitness bands. I can upload my lab tests to add information for Whoop health assessments. The biggest difference is the Whoop can be charged while wearing it.
Since I recently began using Google Gemini Pro as my health and fitness coach, which is amazing, I am looking forward to seamlessly incorporating the Fitbit Air data. Gemini puts the built-in AIs from Whoop or Amazfit/Zepp to shame by comparison.
I gave up wearing smart rings as they got in way of my weight training and weighted jump rope workouts.
Garmin is rumored to be coming out with a screenless band in the very near future.
Isomorphic Labs just outlined its new AI drug design engine (IsoDDE), and this looks like a major step beyond AlphaFold 3.
The system reportedly improves protein–ligand prediction accuracy, identifies new druggable pockets from sequence alone, and outperforms traditional physics-based methods. In other words, this moves AI from structure prediction into actual drug discovery.
For longevity, the implications are straightforward:
Faster target discovery
Access to previously “undruggable” biology
Better small molecules and biologics
Potential acceleration of aging-related therapies
If this holds up in practice, discovery may stop being the bottleneck. The limiting factors shift to validation and trials.
I’m looking forward to hearing about Google’s new XR smart glasses at Google IO today (I’ll be watching from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU ). This could be a game-changer for people wishing to optimize their health. e.g. imagine going to the grocery store and before you buy something it immediately highlights items that are probably not the best for your health (with a red x) and points out ones for which there is some evidence that it helps. Or, imagine you go to a cafe and order something and immediately see nutritional content (better than dedicated apps for this on a smartphone, since the glasses would have access to the whole context – what cafe you are in, what ingredients they list online, etc.) in the AR window. Couple that with Android’s new fitness-trackers and you could get personalized recommendations.
Interesting. I’ve looked at Hero before. My concern is that it’s designed for medications, not supplements. I take 8 different things daily and Hero doesn’t really support that workflow. Curious if anyone here has actually used it for a complex supplement stack?
Clinical trial flaws ‘being scaled, not solved’ by AI: report
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/flaws-are-being-scaled-not-solved-ai-clinical-trials-report