Instead Of Fertility, This Femtech Wearable Zeroes In On Perimenopause

When it comes to reproductive wellness tech, wearable makers bladed to attraction connected 1 of 2 things: play hunt and fertility windows. But astatine CES 2025, wellness startup identifyHer wants to shingle up that communicative pinch Peri, a wearable designed to thief group measurement and negociate perimenopause symptoms.

Perimenopause refers to nan transitional play earlier menopause erstwhile nan ovaries gradually extremity working. Hormones for illustration estrogen and progesterone statesman to decrease, which, successful turn, tin lead to temper changes, irregular periods, basking flashes, and nighttime sweats. Perimenopause symptoms tin alteration wide from personification to personification and past 4 to 8 years connected mean — though it tin beryllium arsenic short arsenic a less months aliases arsenic agelong arsenic a decade.

Peri’s spot merchandise notes that nan instrumentality will proviso “objective accusation connected perimenopausal symptoms, lifestyle, and sleep, arsenic bully arsenic actionable insights and encouragement to amended understand nan changes their bodies are undergoing.” In charismatic pictures, nan instrumentality itself appears to beryllium pill-shaped and adheres to a person’s torso arsenic opposed to their wrist aliases finger, for illustration astir different wellness trackers.

“We will support nan circumstantial sensors confidential until we unfastened pre-orders,” says Peri cofounder Heidi Davis, though Davis acknowledges that nary of nan sensors successful nan instrumentality are caller aliases proprietary. “Our breakthrough lies successful nan integer fingerprints we have identified done 3 years of R&D, collecting sensor accusation from women experiencing perimenopause.”

Davis says those “fingerprints” were past utilized to create algorithms that proviso continuous accusation connected basking flashes, nighttime sweats, and interest successful perimenopausal women. One astonishing finding, Davis says, is that assemblage somesthesia isn’t a reliable parameter of basking flashes. Extra effort was too put successful to guarantee nan algorithms weren’t swayed by things for illustration workout aliases lukewarm weather, which could effect bosom rate, sweating, aliases summation assemblage temperature.

Davis says identifyHer too intentionally decided to forgo a limb-based tracker.

“During nan early stages of development, we tested our sensors connected nan limbs but recovered that we could not spot nan integer fingerprints for immoderate of nan emblematic symptoms of perimenopause,” Davis explains, noting that nan torso delivers nan astir meticulous readings and is wherever basking flashes and nighttime sweats are strongest.

As promising arsenic this each sounds, nary of Peri’s tech is proven conscionable yet. We’ll personification to spot really Peri fares erstwhile it launches, which is expected to beryllium successful mid-2025. That said, its ngo to bring further clarity to women’s reproductive wellness — a historically understudied area — is 1 wearable makers and researchers alike personification wide pursued successful caller years. Oura, for instance, has conducted its ain study connected gestation prediction, while Apple too launched its ain long-term, large-scale Women’s Health Study utilizing nan Apple Watch. It’s conscionable yet bully to spot immoderate traction connected a less-studied style of reproductive health.