FoodEffect Pulse
Whether you are a bio-hacker or just concerned about your health, FoodEffect assists you in your quest for peak performance and a healthier life.
FoodEffect Pulse’s main component is:
- Food Sensitivity Test
- Insights Screen
Inflammation is an innate response to injury, stress, or illness, poor gut function or eating toxic foods (high-toxin, high-sugar, high-processed, high-gluten, etc.) and induces an inflammatory response. When this response becomes the norm for your body, it becomes a low-level feature in your physiology and problems arise.
Many studies that are found in the National Institute of Health data base show that eating foods you are sensitive to create a histamine response which leads to inflammation. While allergic reactions are overt and obvious (rashes, watering eyes) food sensitivities may have subtle reactions that you don't even notice. Still, there is a histamine response which leads to elevated heart rate and inflammation.
It turns out that inflammation is the common link between cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity in developed nations and thus should be reduced by whatever means available.
FoodEffect Pulse provides a tool for detecting food sensitivities that may contribute to low level inflammation. If you are sensitive to certain foods, you may not notice any symptoms, though your body reacts by elevating your heart rate after eating an offending food. FoodEffect Pulse will let you detect this elevation in heart rate which can occur anytime up to 1 ½ hours after eating an offending food.
Using wither your Apple Watch or the Kardia Mobile 6L, FoodEffect Pulse monitors your pulse three times after eating and assigns either a red “X” (sensitive) or a green checkmark (not sensitive).
The "Insights" screen keeps track of what foods were eaten in the meals that tested positive for sensitivities. This provides critical information for you to test further via a process of elimination.