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Realtime Hormone Monitoring

drew

June 2014

edited February 2015

in Coatings, transdermals, other implants

Hey peoples,

I've been thinking about this for a while now, although I don't have any real time to put towards this at the moment, I've decided to ask for input.

To borrow a line from http://www.wired.com/2012/02/body-implants/, "a sensor that tracked every estrogen uptick and cortisol dip would be a self-tracker’s wet dream".

Pie in the sky, I want to have a Bluetooth LE link to an implant that is monitoring various hormones in my blood in realtime. I'm most excited about cortisol, but, as long as I'm fantasizing, let's throw in melatonin, adrenaline, testosterone, estrogen, and insulin.

Thoughts?

Tagged: implants, quantified-self, hormone

Comments

1. 

   mothball

   
   June 2014
   That sounds awesome. The only hormone monitoring systems I've sen for cortisol are saliva based and take at least 30 mins to develop... I don't know if there's any real time hormone detection systems available for any body fluid, including blood.... Have you done any research on this?
2. 

   Therm0ptic
   June 2014
   Could one have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clIiP1H3Opw and modify it to be able to do such a thing?