WellTheory, a digital well being firm addressing autoimmune illness, launched a ladies’s well being program on Tuesday to assist these battling hormonal situations like endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, postpartum, hypothyroidism and menopause.
Atherton, California-based WellTheory treats autoimmune situations together with Addison’s Illness, Celiac Illness, A number of Sclerosis and Lupus. It makes use of a collaborative care workforce mannequin and works alongside sufferers’ physicians and specialists. WellTheory offers sufferers with a care plan to assist habits round vitamin, stress, sleep and motion. It affords one-on-one video classes and limitless messaging with specialists. It additionally makes use of diagnostics to assist sufferers perceive the basis reason for their signs. The corporate serves employers and well being plans.
The brand new ladies’s well being program, in the meantime, goals to handle the hyperlink between autoimmune illness and hormone imbalances. By means of this system, sufferers obtain hormone testing to measure intercourse hormones, cortisol ranges and metabolites, and acquire entry to a care workforce. Additionally they obtain customized academic packages and customized complement protocols. As well as, they’ll have ongoing care by way of video calls, messaging and symptom monitoring.
This system comes as about 80% of those that battle an autoimmune situation within the U.S. are ladies. Analysis reveals that hormones regulate immune system perform, and disruptions in hormonal stability can each set off and exacerbate autoimmune situations.
“Hormonal imbalances play a big function in autoimmune illness growth and development — particularly throughout main life transitions like being pregnant, postpartum, and menopause,” mentioned Ellen Rudolph, co-founder and CEO of WellTheory, in an electronic mail. “Regardless of this, conventional healthcare not often addresses the connection between hormones and immune well being. We launched this program for our enterprise companions to fill that crucial hole and supply ladies with customized, root-cause-driven care that treats the entire particular person — not simply remoted signs.”
To measure the success of this system, WellTheory will observe patient-reported high quality of life, scientific outcomes, enhancements in office productiveness and different metrics, she added.
The choice to create the ladies’s well being program is deeply private for Rudolph. Earlier than she was recognized with an autoimmune illness, she was recognized with PCOS at age 25.
“Nobody ever defined that my hormonal imbalances might affect my immune system or improve my danger for autoimmune situations,” she mentioned. “I spent years navigating unexplained signs like persistent fatigue, mind fog, and extreme month-to-month flare-ups with out clear solutions. It wasn’t till I realized in regards to the crucial hyperlink between hormones and the immune system that I acquired to the basis reason for my signs — and my well being started to enhance.”
She added that WellTheory’s objective in launching the brand new program is to enhance the “commonplace of care for girls with hormonal and autoimmune situations by offering customized, root-cause-driven options that deal with the entire particular person.”
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