Exclusive: Oura Ring and Hormone Tracker Mira Help Bring Hormonal Health to Life Tracking
Hormonal health company Mira has partnered with Oura, makers of Oura Ringcombining hormone data collected by its egg-shaped monitor with Oura’s health metrics of sleep, readiness and temperature. This marks the first integration of lab-grade hormone data into daily health tracking.
“Hormones have traditionally been thought of as something you measure on your own — maybe once, in a clinical setting, and then you’re sent on your way. But that’s not how women really feel about their bodies,” Mira CEO Sylvia Kang told CNET. “At Mira, we focused on bringing hormones into everyday life, because they shape how you sleep, how much energy you have, how you feel emotionally, and even how happy or strong you feel.”
Mira is the first and only hormone monitoring powered by fluorescence-based detection (FluoMapping technology). This is the same technology used in clinical laboratories to deliver precise numerical hormone concentrations.
With the free Mira app, you can see your hormone data alongside Oura’s sleep metrics, readiness and temperature.
To collect your hormone data, you dip one of Mira’s test sticks into your urine (provided in a cup), the stick is placed in the hormone monitor for 16 seconds and the results are uploaded to the free Mira app. There, you can now view your Oura data to see how your hormones can affect the rest of your body.
You can use Mira’s hormone monitor to track the following: luteinizing hormone (LH), the reproductive hormone that controls ovarian function; E3G, a metabolite of estradiol or E2, a form of estrogen found in urine; PdG, urinary metabolite of progesterone; and FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone), a pituitary hormone that stimulates ovarian follicles. A metabolite is any substance that is produced during metabolism, as the end products of your body’s chemical processes.
With this broader view of your life, you can better understand why you may feel more tired one day than another. Wandering people perimenopausemenstruation, giving birth or the menstrual cycle can also use this information to know what is happening inside their body and why. This, in turn, can help ensure ovulation, affect daily decisions for improved rest and recovery and prepare users for more informed discussions with their doctors.
With Mira, you can track your LH, E3G, PdG and FSH hormones for fertility, menstruation, menstruation or menstrual cycle.
Mira says Oura members’ consent to share their data with Mira is essential to this integration, and Mira’s privacy policy is simple: Personal health data is private and is not sold or shared. Anonymous sensitive data is only used to improve the app experience, with HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant service providers. HIPAA is the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, while GDPR is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Kang tells CNET that when Mira started working with Oura, the question wasn’t “How do we aggregate data?” but “How do we help women understand their lives better?” This new collaboration serves as a reminder that no part of the body works in a vacuum. Context is important.
