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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Desi Lydic Explores What Femtech Is Doing With Your Data

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Femtech can help women track everything about their bodies, from pregnancy to periods to kegel exercises. But what are they doing with your data? Desi Lydic investigates these snatch snitchers.

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

The hottest apps are all about FEMTECH, which is a combination of female and MTECH.

0:11.7

And this technology for females is a rapidly growing industry that, like sand after a day

0:16.9

at the beach, has found its way into every part of women's bodies, tracking all of our

0:21.5

needs from pregnancy, nursing, periods, even tracking kegile exercises.

0:25.9

You thought your Peloton instructor was tough, you have not met my kegile coach.

0:29.9

The how necessary are these apps, and will they replace our doctors?

0:33.9

My name is Leneie Braeboy.

0:34.9

I am an obstetrician gynecologist and a reproductive endocrinologist with a specialty in infertility,

0:41.7

and I'm also an egg biologist.

0:44.8

And I also did clinical research on FEMTECH.

0:48.4

I am desiilitic and I too am a woman, but much less accomplished.

0:57.7

So you're a doctor, clearly.

1:00.3

Why are women going to these apps?

1:02.3

Why not just go to someone like you?

1:04.5

Well, there are a lot of great apps that are high quality.

1:07.0

If one people don't realize that a lot of physicians will take what's called a history, what's

1:11.8

been happening with you, what changes have you had, and a lot of people can't answer it

1:16.5

because they haven't really thought about what's happening in their cycles or with their

1:20.1

periods.

1:21.1

So if you're keeping track of your own history, then you can get the treatment that you

1:25.5

need for the concerns that you have.

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