Metluma Uses Garmin Smartwatches to Redefine Women’s Health

A women’s health initiative is using Garmin watches to help women experiencing menopause better manage their health. Here’s how.

Aging well takes knowledge.

That’s what Metluma, a doctor-led initiative focused on providing innovative and personalized team-based care, is providing women going through menopause.

And they’re using Garmin smartwatches to do it.

Redefining women’s midlife health through data-driven insights

Garmin sensor data and integration offers highly accurate and reliable quality, enabling Metluma to provide users with customized, data-driven insights through their app.

Backed by science and research, Metluma aligns medical care with alternative therapies, coaching and technological support to help women live life to the fullest at a time when their bodies are changing.

“As doctors, we know how important it is to track patterns over time rather than relying on single-point-in-time snapshots,” said Dr. Nicole Avard, medical director and co-founder of Metluma.

“By integrating real-time biometric data from Garmin with self-reported symptoms, we’re giving women — and their doctors and care teams — more accurate, personalized health insights.”

Using a 360-degree approach that combines innovation, community and evidence-based care, Metluma empowers women to manage their changing health needs, redefining how women experience perimenopause, menopause and midlife health.

Through a smart health community (where tech helps foster community among those with similar health goals), UMA40 symptom tracker and MPlans (personalized health plans), Metluma provides women with tools to navigate menopause confidently.

The Metluma approach focuses on four factors:

• Real-time: Metluma provides immediate insights using Garmin smartwatches instead of retrospective guesswork.
• Proactive: The data on Garmin smartwatches allows Metluma to identify potential risk factors.
• Remote-first: Women have access to ongoing support and monitoring through the Metluma app, meaning they don’t need to go to the doctor every time a symptom flares.
• High-tech and high-touch: Metluma uses innovative technology to improve accessibility and close the gender health gap.

Garmin smartwatches provide personal health metrics

The Garmin Health API offers a broad integration of Garmin wearables with Metluma.

Alone, Garmin smartwatches track personal health and wellness data that can support efforts to improve — and maintain — health.

When connected to Metluma after users complete the UMA40 symptom tracker, the insightful data from the Garmin watch provides a foundation for the tailored MPlan.

That continuous data tracking enables coaches and experts to better navigate each user’s menopausal and midlife journey.

Metluma focuses on the following health metrics:

• Body Battery: The Body Battery feature on Garmin smartwatches helps users monitor their personal energy resources. This feature indicates how a woman deals with stress and recovery, providing insight into how her energy levels fluctuate during the day.
  
• Heart rate variability (HRV): Defined as the always-changing interval between heartbeats, HRV tells users how their body is reacting to life. This helps Metluma understand stress, recovery and hormonal shifts. Common menopausal symptoms — such as hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue and increased anxiety — could correlate with low HRV.
  
• Sleep data: Advanced sleep tracking on compatible Garmin smartwatches uses HRV, heart rate¹ and body movement to examine sleep. Women may deal with poor sleep — and less of it — during perimenopause and menopause. Tracking REM cycles, deep sleep and sleep quality can help connect the dots between hormonal changes and daily function.

The combination of real-time physiological data from Garmin smartwatches with self-reported symptoms enables Metluma to help women find patterns and proactively manage their health, rather than waiting for women to reach a breaking point.

“Patients tell us that by incorporating the real-time data insights into their programs, they’ve been able to join the dots between the symptoms, how they’re feeling, and real-time data from their wearables,” Avard said. “It’s been a game-changer in understanding their body and making informed health decisions.”

Why Garmin is essential for women’s health monitoring

The high-quality physiological data from Garmin watches is essential for understanding a woman’s cycle and overall health.

Layering that data from Garmin smartwatches with self-reported symptoms and clinical oversight provides a comprehensive picture of what’s happening in her body.

Metluma selected Garmin for the following reasons:

• High-precision sensors: Garmin smartwatches provide reliable HRV, sleep tracking and stress metrics.
• Deeper patient insight: The data from Garmin smartwatches enables Metluma’s doctors to better understand users and empower them.
• Real-time stress and sleep tracking: These metrics are key inputs to Metluma’s treatment plans, allowing for more accurate assessments and personalized care.
• Early intervention: Metluma uses the data from Garmin smartwatches to take a proactive approach and reach women sooner.
• Empowering low-cost, high-impact care: Garmin metrics help guide effective and simple interventions to reduce symptoms.
• Future-ready health support: Garmin provides a predictive, precise and personalized approach across all life stages, including menopause.
• Battery life: The battery life on Garmin smartwatches — which can range from about a week up to unlimited with solar charging²  when in smartwatch mode — outlasts most other watches, allowing for continuous tracking.
• Versatility: From stylish smartwatches to feature-rich, athlete-level smartwatches, Garmin smartwatches cater to different user preferences and monitoring needs.
• Compatibility: Garmin smartwatches work with both Android™ and iOS® smartphones.

Through Garmin smartwatches, Metluma aims to reduce misdiagnoses and missed diagnoses while bridging the gap between subjective symptoms and clinical decision-making.

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