Our guest today, Lindsay Meisel, is the chief science editor at Ava Fertility Tracker with over a decade of experience educating and writing about reproductive health. I got to geek out with her over the science behind this wearable piece of tech and how exactly the Ava bracelet is different from other ovulation predictors. If you have wondered about using the Ava, have tracked your basal body temps (BBT) and are totally over buying ovulation kits, are unsure of your ovulation signs & symptoms, or your just starting out and trying to figure out when your fertile window actually occurs this episode is for you.
Listen in, learn, and get inspired.
Key Talking Points of the Episode:
• What is an Ava Bracelet?
• How does the Ava bracelet work?
• How people micro analyze data
• Can Ava detect a miscarriage?
• Wearing the bracelet during pregnancy
• The differences between Ava and other wearable technologies
• How secure is your data with Ava?
• The launch of the digital contraceptive product
• Purchasing the Ava bracelet
Key Milestones of the Episode:
(01:50): What is an Ava bracelet?
(02:40): How does the wearable tech work?
(06:13): The machine learning algorithm of the Ava bracelet
(17:28): How are people micro analyzing data?
(18:43): Ava’s unique feature (you can sync data after five days)
(20:12): Can Ava help detect a possible miscarriage?
(21:19): Is there value in wearing the bracelet during pregnancy?
(25:28): Differences between Ava and other wearable technologies
(29:05): How secure is your data with Ava?
(30:51): How accurate is Ava?
(34:53): Purchasing the bracelet
(36:12): Lindsay’s fertility journey
Key Quotes from the Episode:
“How we get rid of shame is by telling our stories.”
“…the whole point of Ava is to be able to give you these real-time predictions.”
“Understanding your body is not a machine. It’s not going to be the same every month.”
“If you’re getting an eight-day fertile window at a bare minimum, two of those eight days are not fertile.”
“If you want to predict progesterone, you need to look at signs that are correlated with estrogen or estradiol or luteinizing hormone.”
“There’s a horrible stigma that caring about the journey to getting pregnant makes you this like desperate, weird woman or something.”
“Women already do enough work when it comes to domestic matters.”
“Machine learning is basically a way to; it’s a way for algorithms to make decisions where the reasons aren’t obvious.”If you are tired of trying to interpret your own ovulation calendar, you might want to let AVA do the work for you. Click here for you $20 discount.*