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We Know More About Cholesterol Than Estrogen
In 1948, researchers recruited 5,209 residents for the Framingham Heart Study, the foundation for nearly everything we know about cardiovascular risk. In a separate foundational study that defined "normal" reproductive hormone levels, how many women comprised that cohort? Just thirty-seven.
Your Body, Your Data
Somewhere, in a climate-controlled room humming with computational infrastructure, there exists a server farm storing your resting heart rate at 3:47 AM last Tuesday. This is the bargain we have all accepted with technology: convenience in exchange for comprehensive documentation of our biological existence. We built Clair differently.
The Data Was Always There
Until 1993, the National Institutes of Health did not require women to be included in clinical trials. For most of modern medicine before that, the female body had been treated as a variation of the male one. We started with a different question: What if the data was already there, continuously broadcast by the body, and we just hadn't built anything capable of listening?
