When you go to the doctor, one of the first things they do is measure your vital signs.  That’s because measurements like temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate give your doctor a momentary glimpse inside. Changes in such biometric parameters reflect slight shifts in your body chemistry.  These physiologic adaptations are your first and natural responses to stress or illness.

 All serious medical problems start with some physiologic adaptation. That’s why your doctor starts by looking there. But typically, we only see a doctor once or twice a year after feeling sick. Since medical problems can happen anytime between doctor visits, wouldn’t it be better to know immediately? Imagine being alerted right there at the very beginning of your body’s adaptation process before you even realize you’re sick.

Think of it like driving a car; we are constantly monitoring the performance of the engine.  Dashboard warning lights alert us when things are running too hot, or the oil pressure is too low. When we know about a potentially serious problem well in advance, the car can be serviced to prevent a major breakdown.

Imagine how much suffering we could save if we only had a similar dashboard and early warning system for our bodies. The HaT platform offers precisely this, and we are so excited about it’s potential to transform how we manage our health.

Now you, your doctors, and anyone you nominate, can watch over your health whilst living your life between healthcare visits.  Real peace of mind comes with knowing everything is running normally, seeing when your health risk increases and having a glimpse of early changes in your physiology often before experiencing symptoms.

How Your Health Risk is Calculated

The most widely accepted validated health Early Warning System (EWS) relies on six individual parameters.

·      Heart Rate

·      Respiratory Rate

·      Systolic Blood Pressure

·      Temperature

·      Oxygen Saturation

·      Change in Consciousness

Each parameter is measured and compared to normal population standards.  The more a measurement deviates from expected values, the higher the score given to each parameter. The total health risk is calculated by simply adding together the scores for all six parameters.

That early warning system is valid and accurate for predicting serious illness and death when used in emergency rooms and hospitals.  Although those of us living at home are generally less sick, body physiology works the same way. It is on this foundation that the HaT Health Risk Today protocol was built.

The ‘Health Risk Today’ protocol is adapted in two ways for use while living at home.  First, each parameter is scored using all the data collected over the last 24 hours (instead of using just one reading as used in the hospital).  Secondly, it takes into consideration any missing data. 

When Health Risk Today is unable to calculate, some required data is missing. Check your data and ensure the missing information is captured.

The existing Early Warning System gives a snapshot of your health risk at the moment of calculation. HaT’s novel Body Adaptation protocols provides insight into ongoing changes in your body’s adaptation for a better and constant view of your health trajectory.

What is Your Body Adaptation Score

The human body has tremendous healing capacity and resilience.  Despite a constant barrage of threats from external sources, we can keep our internal environment relatively stable and functional.  We have yet to fully understand the complex, interrelated systems responsible for our ability to adapt to these changes.  However, we can get a glimpse into this process by observing the changes in body measurements such as vitals through the right lens.

A slight rise in body temperature in response to an infection or an increase in the production of more blood cells at high altitudes are examples of body adaptation.

There is a delicate interplay between the intensity of a threat and our capacity to compensate. More severe threats and more intense body insults require a proportionately greater adaptive response.  This happens on two levels.  First, the magnitude of each adaptive response may increase, and second, other adaptive response systems may be recruited to help. 

For example, your body may respond to worsening lung infection by producing an even higher fever, but at some point, the respiratory rate may begin to climb as well. 

The body adaptation score utilizes AI machine learning to analyze and weight data streams of 11 parameters or more. Unlike the daily health risk, which relies on static thresholds from population standards, the body adaptation score is generated using dynamic triggers from personal predictive baselines.

If our health risk is akin to a check engine light illuminating as the car overheats, body adaptation is the equivalent of a tachometer reflecting just how hard the engine is working at the moment.