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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