Biosensors And You

BIOSENSORS AND YOU! JEAN RINTOUL

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We improve, by making mistakes, realizing what went wrong, so that we can do it better next time.

ADDING SENSORS GIVES US SHORTER AND BETTER FEEDBACK LOOPS

Past: Complex, expensive,detailed, regulated, small scale, inaccessible

Now => Future:Simple, cheap, unregulated(no FDA approval), mass consumer scale, democratized

Cost versus function?

TECHNOLOGIES INVOLVED

TECHNOLOGIES INVOLVED

NEUROFEEDBACKTrain yourself to focus attention, and ignore distraction.

BRAIN TRAINING- READ THE COLOR OF THE INK AS FAST AS POSSIBLE

NOOTROPICS

SIMPLE BEGINNINGS…

LOTS OF POWERFUL INFORMATION…

• Blood pressure through blood velocity

• Blood alcohol• Circadian rhythms, slow wave

sleep• Respiratory rate• Allergy monitoring• Correlations to location, local

plants, diet, weight, blood nutrients, DNA sequencing etc especially when you add in the data streeams coming from 23 and me, sano intelligence and other health sensors.

• Heart beat• Arrhythmia• Stress(heart rate

variability)/GSR • temperature variations with

stress or fever• EMG (muscle activity)• Movement/steps/calorific burn

LOTS OF POWERFUL INFORMATION…

• Blood pressure through blood velocity

• Blood alcohol• Circadian rhythms, slow wave

sleep• Respiratory rate• Allergy monitoring• Correlations to location, local

plants, diet, weight, blood nutrients, DNA sequencing etc especially when you add in the data streeams coming from 23 and me, sano intelligence and other health sensors.

• Heart beat• Arrhythmia• Stress(heart rate

variability)/GSR • temperature variations with

stress or fever• EMG (muscle activity)• Movement/steps/calorific burn

THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

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“Rest / Digest” “Fight / Flight”

(and the “brain” is distributed throughout your body)

THE BODY IS THE GATEWAY TO THE BRAIN(AND THE “BRAIN” IS DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT YOUR BODY)

Autonomic nervous system: rest and digest (parasympathetic nervous system) vs fight or flight (sympathetic nervous system).

The wandering nerve- the vagus nerve sends information from the body, back to the brain.

EXAMPLE OF THE DISTRIBUTED BRAIN

Brain: 100 billion neuronsStomach: 1/1000th the number of neurons in the brainSpinal chord: 1/100th the number of neurons in the brainHeart: 40 000 neurons

The Brain-Gut Connection – The Enteric Nervous System:

Why do we get butterflies in our stomach before a performance?

Why does indigestion produce nightmares?

Why are antidepressants now also being used for gastrointestinal ailments?

ENHANCED COMMUNICATION

WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF?

Thanks!