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🗓️ 21 July 2021
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Desi Lydic chats with Dr. Lynae Brayboy and Clue app co-founder Ida Tin about the menstrual health benefits and privacy risks posed by the rapidly growing femtech app industry.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
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. |
0:26.0 | 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 Lene Brayboy. |
0:35.4 | I am an obstetrician gynecologist and a reproductive endocrinologist with a specialty and infertility, |
0:41.7 | and I'm also an egg biologist. |
0:44.8 | And I also have good clinical research on FEMTECH. |
0:48.4 | I am desi-litic 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? |
1:04.6 | Well, there are a lot of great apps that are high quality. |
1:06.9 | And what people don't realize is that a lot of physicians will take what's called a |
1:11.0 | history, what's been happening with you, what changes have you had. |
1:15.0 | And a lot of people can't answer it because they haven't really thought about what's happening |
1:18.8 | in their cycles or with their periods. |
1:20.8 | So if you're keeping track of your own history, then you can get the treatment that you |
1:25.4 | need for the concerns that you have. |
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