Ōura Announces New Hormonal Insights For Its Cult Ring Device To Help Manage Menopause

Now the nifty ring can assist you with managing hormonal shifts from perimenopause, menopause, and birth control choices

While countless women rely on Ōura’s smart ring to track their sleep, energy, fitness and overall health, this week the bio-tech behemoth announced key updates for its female customers – two new experiences to assist with major life factors – hormonal birth control support and menopause insights.

“Women have had to navigate hormonal health through confusion and contradiction,” says Inessa Lurye, VP of product, women’s health at Ōura. “For too long, they’ve been asked to make sense of real changes in their bodies with too few trusted resources and too little validation. Our new Hormonal Birth Control support and Menopause Insights connect the daily health signals from Ōura Ring with what women are living through – from contraception to perimenopause and beyond – turning guesswork into patterns they can see and understand.”

In practical terms, Inessa believes that knowledge is power. “These insights mean fewer nights spent wondering if what you’re feeling is ‘normal,’ and more confidence in the choices you make about your body, your routine, and your care. When women need support, they have shared data and insights that help their doctor see the full picture and empower more meaningful, informed conversations.”

With more than half of women in their reproductive years using contraception, and more than a billion women worldwide experiencing perimenopause and menopause, the market for this biometric data is huge. And the most impressive part, is the new insights’ ability to encompass so many hormonal variables, to cater to as many of these women as possible. The Cycle Insights feature can be adapted depending on your method of contraception, indicating how the chosen method might influence your personal baseline over time, and explore its impact on temperature, sleep and recovery patterns.

For women going through menopause, the device relies upon the new Menopause Impact Scale – a clinical, proprietary questionnaire devised by Ōura to assess the impact of menopause on sleep, mood, cognition, and day-to-day life, in order to generate a personalised dashboard with an overall impact level. This data allows users to assess lifestyle factors and changes to manage stress and consider potential interventions, and also gives them tangible results and trends to share with clinicians supporting them through their hormonal evolution. “Menopause Insights brings each member’s long-term biometric patterns together with what they’re experiencing day to day,” says Chris Curry, MD, PhD, clinical director of women’s health at Ōura and board-certified OB/GYN. “That gives women and their clinicians a shared, clearer view of what’s actually changing – so how they feel and what their data shows is in the same conversation.”

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