Noosheen Hashemi on January's Personalized Tech for Controlling Blood Sugar

<p>In a companion interview to his June 7 talk with Stanford's Michael Snyder, Harry speaks this week with Noosheen Hashemi, who—with Snyder—co-founded the personalized health startup January.ai in 2017. The company focuses on helping users understand how their bodies respond to different foods and activities, so they can make diet and exercise choices that help them avoid unhealthy spikes in blood glucose levels.</p><p>January's smartphone app collects blood glucose levels from disposable devices called continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), as well as heart rate data from patients’ Fitbits or Apple Watches. The app also makes it easier for users to log the food they eat, and see what impact each food has on their glucose levels. Once the app has enough data, January’s machine learning algorithms can start predicting the effects of different foods and activities on blood glucose. It can then recommend meals and exercise that’ll help users keep their blood glucose in a healthy target range. </p><p>The goal isn’t to prevent glucose spikes completely, but rather to prevent diabetes from emerging over the long term in people at risk for a cluster of serious conditions known metabolic syndrome. That could help individuals live longer, healthier lives. And at a population level it could save billions in healthcare costs.</p><p><strong>Please rate and review MoneyBall Medicine on Apple Podcasts! </strong>Here's how to do that from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:</p><p>• Launch the “Podcasts” app on your device. If you can’t find this app, swipe all the way to the left on your home screen until you’re on the Search page. Tap the search field at the top and type in “Podcasts.” Apple’s Podcasts app should show up in the search results.</p><p>• Tap the Podcasts app icon, and after it opens, tap the Search field at the top, or the little magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner.</p><p>• Type MoneyBall Medicine into the search field and press the Search button.</p><p>• In the search results, click on the MoneyBall Medici