COR

Looks promising! What biomarkers are actually being measured? Seems like you can't provide actual raw values (to get around FDA regulations) so can only show proprietary "scores"? Where can we see more images/videos of your app in use?

Hello Product Hunt, Bob here, founder of COR. Glad to be back after a long hiatus, heads down building and making. I’ve always been fascinated with how deep, personalized information about your health can be made accessible– so much so that I helped pioneer Apple Health as an architect of the Apple Watch. Nowadays, there’s a huge movement toward collecting the best data to inform our lifestyle–as I’ve come to believe, an exceptional life begins with exceptional data. The problem is, tools in the market don’t provide a deep data set. COR was born from the need to answer a simple, profound question: how do we truly know what works for each of us, individually? Every research study on nutrition and fitness practices shows a range of benefits amongst a range of participants. Yet we know that even identical twins have hugely different metabolic responses. That’s why my team and I created COR - the world’s first at-home infrared spectrometer that measures personal blood response to food and fitness. Infrared spectrometers use specific wavelengths of light to identify and quantity molecular changes. They are in use all over the world from making consumer products to evaluating food crops. COR consists of a digital app and a physical machine that’s about the size of a Wi-Fi router. Users enroll in programs in the app that introduce modest lifestyle changes to their daily routines – like incorporating salmon into their diet or adding protein before a workout – over a 21-day period. Starting from the first day and every seven days after that, users will prick their finger to gather a small sample of blood that will provide insights into the effective changes brought about by the chosen program. In only 21 days, you can get a report (with data-backed evidence) of what lifestyle practices are highly beneficial for you. At COR, we want to equip people with the necessary data to make the most personally beneficial lifestyle choices possible. We hope that every family will eventually have a COR spectrometer in their home. We’d love to hear your feedback and questions so that we can continue to make COR the best product it can be. – Bob Messerschmidt, CEO, and Founder of COR

"Google Analytics for your health" is based on the underlying data of your blood chemistry is a fascinating idea — especially when made accessible to consumers. Would love to try this!

I am a PhD chemist, I commercialised an FTIR product for point-of-care diagnostics and I have been using an Apple Watch since Series 1 was launched. So I get It and you are definitely on to a winner. I won't ask you for your secret sauce but maybe reference data are needed to train the algorithms analysing the raw spectra (which if I understood correctly are not accessible to the user). I guess you have worked out the user feedback loop which (I am guessing) is a combination of Apple Watch data and direct user input. Is the NHS looking at this? Will there be an API so that 3rd parties can integrate it to their platforms?

Wow an at-home spectrometer! Would definitely love to try this.

This looks awesome. Taking at home health tracking to the next level

Love the idea of being able to track how my body responds to things like getting in 10,000 steps a day. Is that effort really worth it, or should I be incorporating things like fish into my diet (or both). Can't wait to find out!