Your sweat could tell you when to make a baby --- and moreBy Thomas Heath The Washington Post
Published Sept. 23, 2016
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/sweat_revealed.php3#mYzc3OclXqZwsdbs.99You are ovulating. You are dehydrated. Your cholesterol is too high. Or too low. You are depressed, stressed or your muscles are cramping. Time to get off the golf course and get the heart checked. Or keep playing, you are fine.
A Cincinnati start-up is working on advanced wristbands, headbands and skin patches that will read markers and diagnose your health risks -- or opportunities -- from the sweat your body secretes.
"This is the hard-science end of wearables," said Robert Beech, chairman and co-founder of Eccrine Systems.
Fitness wearables such as Fitbit and Jawbone measure heart rate, steps, sleep and a few other metrics. The wearable market and the technology opportunities are vast. Oral Roberts University has distributed around 1,800 Fitbits to freshman and transfer students so they can more easily track their steps and heart rate as part of their core curriculum requirement for physical health.
Beech and Eccrine want to turn wearables into mini-laboratories like the kind that slice and dice your blood samples and tell you a million things such as whether you are at risk of prostate cancer or what your Vitamin D level is....
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