Whoop – The wearable for professional athletes

The start-up Whoop has created a wearable that professional athletes love. The startup's device tracks a lot of biometric data, including heart rate. We will detail all this in the rest of the article.

If I’m talking to you about this today, it’s because the Whoop wearable is currently being used in a study to monitoring sleep in patients with type 1 diabetes.

The four-week study is being conducted by health data analytics company Evidation Health and the diabetes data provider called Tidepool. It will use a series of devices, including the Whoop, Dexcom's continuous blood glucose monitoring; as well as the Emfit sleep monitoring. All of this will analyze the impact of blood sugar on behavior. Whether it's heart rate, sleep patterns or activity.

Whoop’s software is currently able to provide information on recovery time, stress and sleep. In addition, his sleep tracking is designed to help athletes recover faster; and optimize their performance. Some of these results and data clearly have utility in the area of ​​health monitoring. I look forward to hearing the results of this study. And who knows, maybe it will advance diabetes research.

For your information, this year Whoop launched a subscription service. This subscription gives access to both Whoop Strap and data services for $ 30 a month. Other information, the start-up added Android support for its tracker at the end of last year. A good idea to make its technology accessible to more users.

Finally, Whoop is just the latest in a series of wearable tech companies that are starting to work in the healthcare industry; and it will surely not be the last company I will tell you about!

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