Meridith Cass - the Founder-CEO of Nix BioSensors - joins the show to talk about the self-health movement, the latest technology behind hydration intelligence, and the prospect of completely automating your hydration strategy and execution at an ultra-trail race like the Western States 100.
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Timestamps:
- 2:10 The Importance of Self-Health and Personalized Health Management
- 5:15 Accuracy and Meaningful Metrics in Biosensing
- 8:34 Personalized Feedback and Dynamic Recommendations
- 10:05 The Limitations of Intuition in Hydration Management
- 12:26 The Impact of Dehydration on Performance
- 14:17 How the Nix Patch Works and Measures Sweat
- 15:06 Refining Hydration Plans with Patch Data
- 17:30 The Nix Index and Environmental Conditions
- 21:05 The Value of Wearing the Patch Before and After Workouts
- 23:42 Triangulating Data with Other Sensors
- 25:04 Accuracy of Recommendations and Tolerable Error Rate
- 27:24 The Role of the Patch in Changing Consumer Purchasing and Brand Marketing
- 29:30 Granularity of Electrolyte Profile Data
- 31:06 The Future of Hydration and the Role of the Nix Patch
- 37:09 The Impact of Nix on Personalized Purchasing Decisions
- 39:39 The Need for Lab-Based Sweat Tests and the Role of the Nix Patch
- 41:00 Exciting Research in Sweat Science and Partnerships with Researchers
- 42:27 Automating Hydration Strategies with the Nix Patch
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