Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Crosses 1,000 User Pregnancies. When Glow launched its iPhone app for tracking female fertility earlier this year, it garnered attention for its slick design, $6 million Series A funding, and of course well-known founder Max Levchin. But its real success — how many women conceived with the help of using the app — couldn’t be judged right away. These things take some time. Now that it’s been a little over four months since its public launch, Glow is finally talking numbers, and they are pretty impressive. More than 1,000 women have become pregnant with the help of the fertility-tracking app, Glow announced today.
Also today, Glow issued an update to its iOS app and a new feature called Glow Community, which is a social space to allow couples who are trying to conceive and parents-to-be to share their experiences. Max Levchin has said that his goals for Glow go much farther than what we see on the surface. Levchin talked to TechCrunch TV about what inspired him to launch Glow at the app’s launch in August. Evolution of lactose tolerance: Why do humans keep drinking milk? Photograph by Valentyn Volkov/iStockphoto/Thinkstock.
To repurpose a handy metaphor, let's call two of the first Homo sapiens Adam and Eve. By the time they welcomed their firstborn, that rascal Cain, into the world, 2 million centuries of evolution had established how his infancy would play out. For the first few years of his life, he would take his nourishment from Eve's breast. Once he reached about 4 or 5 years old, his body would begin to slow its production of lactase, the enzyme that allows mammals to digest the lactose in milk. Two hundred thousand years later, around 10,000 B.C., this began to change. In an evolutionary eye-blink, 80 percent of Europeans became milk-drinkers; in some populations, the proportion is close to 100 percent.
Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London, points out that in modern-day Turkey, where the mutation seems to have arisen, the warm climate causes fresh milk to rapidly change its composition. Gretchen Reynolds on 'The First 20 Minutes' What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier. Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life, from depression, to memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and more. At the same time, similar to the topic of sleep, I found myself having very little specific and scientific knowledge about what exercise really does to our bodies and our brains. “Yes, yes, I know all about it, that’s the thing with the endorphins, that makes you feel good and why we should exercise and stuff, right?” Is what I can hear myself say to someone bringing this up.
I would pick up things here and there, yet really digging into the connection of exercise and how it effects us has never been something I’ve done. Inspired by a recent post from Joel on what makes us happy I’ve set out to uncover the connection between our feeling of happiness and exercising regularly. Share this story with your followers when they’re most likely to click, favorite, and reply! What triggers happiness in our brain when we exercise? Quick Cures/Quack Cures: To Crack or Not to Crack Your Joints. Podcast #25: Wheat Belly with Dr. William Davis, MD. William Davis, MD, is a preventive cardiologist whose unique approach to diet allows him to advocate reversal, not just prevention, of heart disease.
He is the founder of the Track Your Plaque program and the author of Wheat Belly, Lose the wheat, lose the weight. After trying to find a way to help his patients avoid heart disease, Dr. Davis decided to make some unique nutritional interventions that defy conventional wisdom. He comes on Bulletproof Executive Radio to talk about those interventions, and how you can avoid heart disease by changing your diet. Click here to read the free transcript of this episode (coming soon). Did you know you can get a free PDF download of every transcript of every episode of Bulletproof Executive Radio by entering your email address in the box on the right side of this page? What We Cover You’re a doctor, aren’t you supposed to be telling us to avoid saturated fat and cholesterol? Links From The Show Featured Wheat Belly by Dr. Track Your Plaque by Dr.
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