Your sweat carries a lot of information about your health condition
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“Wow, you are very salty,” says Stefan van der Flot. I can tell him that. I have just performed exercises that smell 45 -minute sweat on a exercise bike, and the salt has already begun to crystallize T -Shirty. But Van der Flot knows exactly how salty. I have just sweated by 347 milligrams of sodium in 370 milliliters of water. This is on the high side, of sodium, and I need to renew.
Van Der Fluit is the co -founder of a company called Flowbio, based in London, which specializes in sweat analysis for athletes. During exercise, I was wearing a sensor called S1 on my upper arms, which collects sweat in a small channel, measures the sound level and concentration of sodium automatically, and transmits data to the smartphone application. Using these data, the application calculates my total losses.
If you are tolerant, this data will be of great value, and perhaps the difference between winning and loss. I am not, but Van Der Favot is. As a competitive passenger, he had long -term problems with dryness. But since he began to use the sweat sensor, they went away, and his performance has improved.
S1 Flowbio is one of a handful of sweat sensors that can be worn that came to the market in the past few years. They are mainly aimed at people who sweat a lot in the context of their jobs – athletes and handicrafts – but they are also available to …
