Biosense: Tap Into the Power of Autophagy with your Breath

<p><strong>Biohackers often ask: How long do I need to fast before I am in autophagy?  The answers come back fast and furious and it appears that nobody can agree – 16 hours?  24 hours? 72 hours?  It turns out that the answer is frustratingly: “it depends”…it depends on you, your metabolic flexibility and more…the Biosense device is here to help individuals answer this burning question for themselves.</strong></p> <p><strong>In this week’s episode</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Nathalie talks to Jim Howard from Readout Health about the Biosense Breath Ketone Monitoring device – a revolutionary method of measuring ketones more precisely without spilling a single drop of blood!  We talk about the ketones, fasting and a new feature on the Biosense App that will help users to tap into their body’s innate mechanisms of repair and renewal – cellular autophagy - by honing in on their individual response.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Meet This Week's Guest</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jim Howard is a 27-year medtech executive focused on value creation with novel approaches to patient care. Jim came to Readout as CEO from his EIR position at venture capital firm, BioGenerator, an initial investor in Readout.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He is a co-founder and initial CEO of Washington University spinout SentiAR, the first AR platform for interventional procedures, currently in clinical trials. Jim led a team of 50 as VP of Sales in CareFusion’s respiratory business unit through the acquisition by Becton Dickinson in 2016. He is a board director at POC medical device company, MagBiosense, and is an active mentor to new CEO’s in the St. Louis healthcare ecosystem.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jim is passionate about behavioral changes in chronic diseases, putting the healthcare in the hands of patients. He has an MBA from University of Missouri-St.Louis and remains active in collaborations with Washington University researchers.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong