But first some context…īecoming a cyborg is no longer as sci-fi as that sounds. Skip ahead if you want to dive into the operational details. Here follows my long read on the curious experience of living with a skin-perforating wearable and a dynamically updating digital window onto your biological process, as well as wider discussion of the value of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for a general health/fitness purpose, and - finally - some notes on the competitive landscape springing up around productizing this type of sensing hardware.Īs this is loosely a review of Ultrahuman’s (still private beta) product/service, I’ve also included a ‘Verdict & Price’ section too. So the theory behind the product is that lots of incremental lifestyle choices can stack up to a healthier long term outlook - if you’re able to ‘optimize’ these decisions to avoid triggers for inflammation and oxidative stress. Research has linked chronic metabolic inflammation, from factors such as poor diet and physical inactivity, to the risk of developing a number of diseases - from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and even cancer. The tracker program, branded Cyborg, uses arm-mounted medical grade hardware to get a real-time read-out of your blood glucose - using that dynamic data-point to power a quantified health service that scores what you eat and how you move, nudging you to make healthier lifestyle choices throughout the day. Putting this out there, it may be useful for others who use Google Fit as their central health tracking app, and in case anyone has found other calorie trackers worth investigating.For four weeks during 2021, this TechCrunch reporter took the plunge and tested a “metabolic fitness” service from Bangalore-based startup Ultrahuman. I wish there was a way I could remove the water icon from MyNetDiary but I'll live with it. Hydro Coach works exactly how you'd expect, you log water it appears in Google Fit, you delete and entry, it removes it from Google Fit. I've ended up using MyNetDiary for calorie tracking, and then I've used Hydro Coach PRO for water intake. I like (don't love the app, there's a few quirks and there's no dark mode) the app, however: This app also tracks hydration data (found under Browse - Nutrition - Hydration) to Google Fit, but at the end of each day, it wipes out your individual entries in Google Fit, and logs a single entry at 11:59pm with the total amount drunken that day. This logs perfectly in Google Fit, if you delete or edit an entry it also gets updated in Google Fit. This logs everything correctly, so if you have lunch at 12:11pm it'll log it then, with full nutrition data and the correct meal, however if you delete or edit a meal in the app, it won't update in Google Fit, and it can lead to duplicate meals in Google Fit Also logs limited nutrition information and logs every meal as Unknown Kinda works, but always uses a preset timestamp in Google Fit, so lunch meals will always appear as 12pm in Google Fit. This works, but it logs every meal as a snack in Google Fit. To see this data go to Browse - Nutrition - Calories consumed in Google Fit I've managed to find a total of 4 apps that write calorie intake to Google Fit. I've been messing around with calorie trackers/food diaries that sync calorie intake data with Google Fit, this is what I've found.
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