Miray Tayfun | Your Body's Voice: Physical Intuition, Better Hydration | Vivoo At-Home Urine Testing

May 24, 2022

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At Vivoo, we're constantly making a positive change in our customers' lives. We receive so much great feedback on even the smallest things like helping someone or their dad stay better hydrated. It's really amazing how just tracking your hydration levels can create such an amazing impact on your health. Also with Vivoo's ease of use and rapid results, you don't have to rely solely on hydration or nutrient tests at your annual doctor's visits. It's really changing people's lives and their stories are so beautiful to hear. - Miray Tayfun

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Wellness + Wisdom Episode 450

Co-founder and CEO of Vivoo, Miray Tayfun, shares how their product will help you tune in to your body's unique voice, why this latest technology is a healthy mirror for mindfulness plus how Vivoo tracks and shares important biomarkers with you like your hydration,Vitamin C, and calcium levels.

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Discover why the at-home Vivoo urine test and app is the easiest, quickest, and most convenient way to stay on top of your health levels.

Vivoo: Your Body's Voice

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Vivoo is an at-home urine test & mobile application that tracks 11 key wellness parameters: Vitamin C, Magnesium, Salinity, Oxidative Stress, Calcium, pH, Hydration, Ketones, Nitrite, Kidney Function, and Liver function.

Best of all, it provides customized lifestyle & nutritional advice based on user results so you can take action on their health & wellness.

The app will interpret your results in 90 seconds, providing you with:

An overall wellness score
Detailed feedback & score in each individual parameter
Personalized nutrition & lifestyle according to your results which have been prepared by dietitians

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Listen To Episode 450 As Miray Tayfun Uncovers: [1:30] Listen to Your Body's Voice

Vivoo
Miray Tayfun
The origin story of Vivoo and how it's helping people live life well.
How Vivoo is making biohacking so much easier and quicker for their customers.
The different biomarkers that Vivoo tracks for you.
Understanding the body's incredible intelligence especially when we stop to tune into it.
Why the results of deficiencies might not show up until years later such as osteoporosis.
Breaking down how urine tests are just as accurate as blood tests, if not more.
How they have made Vivoo cost-effective for people looking to make and track lifestyle changes to better improve their health.
Why it depends on each person for how often they track their biomarkers with Vivoo.
Who their top customers are and why it's quite surprising.

[13:00] Are You Chronically Dehydrated?

The fact that many people are actually chronically dehydrated without even realizing it.
What surprised Miray the most when she first began tracking herself with Vivoo.
Sneaky reasons why you might be experiencing chronic fatigue.
The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--and How Eating More Might Save Your Life by Dr. James DiNicolantonio
The moment Miray realized that she needed more salt in her diet to help her keep her energy up and feel good everyday.
No. 1 beverage mistake people are making thinking that soda or juice or coffee is the same as drinking water to be hydrated.
Common issues people face when they are chronically dehydrated.
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How Vivoo tracks our pH levels so that you can make adjustments accordingly; especially if you're a vegan or vegetarian.

[18:30] A Healthy Mirror of Mindfulness

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What you can do if you find yourself stressing out over what a tracker's results are showing you about your health.
How Vivoo acts as a healthy mirror of mindfulness.
Her own healthy habits around using trackers like the Oura ring without getting caught up in the data especially after something like a red eye flight.
Miray's leadership style and the fact that their team is organically 70% women.
Why their customers are mostly women buying for themselves or for their partners.
How Vivoo can help with period tracking for women.
Alerts women will receive to help them have a better monthly experience by alerting them what nutrients they're lacking such as magnesium to help with cramps as well as hydration and movement suggestions.
How women use Vivoo post-pregnancy to track their nutrients.
The fact that many period tracking apps have been created by men so Miray and her team are able to identify and provide what is missing for their female customers.

[23:25] Improving Society's Overall Wellbeing

The challenges they faced when developing the app and how they used machine learning to help overcome them.
Breaking down what machine learning is and how it is a helpful AI tool.
How the Vivoo strips work to transfer information back to you on your phone's app through API and also keeps your identity anonymous and information encrypted and safe.
Interesting connections and findings they've made such as why users in Hawaii are the most hydrated compared to the rest to help improve our society's overall wellbeing.
How Texas compares to other states with their biomarking findings.
The fact that the USA is more acidic and dehydrated compared to Europe and why that might be.
Where most people are doing a keto diet compared to the rest of the nation or world.

[28:00] Tracking & Understanding Our Oxidative Stress

Unpacking the MDA (Malondialdehyde) biomarker to help track oxidative stress and why that is so special.
The multiple free radicals that are in MDA and how it's tracked in urine with a color metric test.
How the MDA helps a persona identify that they have an UTI or an infection.
The increase they see in MDA for customers who smoke.
The fact that free radicals stats can differ depending on the pollution within your postal code.
Why it can be difficult to detect Vitamin C and that is something that they are working on improving.
Exploring why urine has not yet been studied enough in helping us understand the human body and so they do their very own clinical trials.
The scientific contribution that Vivoo is already providing for the world and why that will only grow from here.
Why it's common to see a significant increase in oxidative stress after being sick like Josh was recently with the flu.

[31:20] How Coffee Impacts Our Health: Good or Bad for You?

How drinking a lot of coffee or caffeine every day can impact the results of their test strip across the board.
Miray's own experience being a chronic caffeine consumer and why she recently quit.
The transition Miray experienced the moment she had to quit coffee for a teeth whitening treatment and how her body feels now compared to before.
Biomarking and lifestyle changes Miray noticed when she quit coffee such as her pH levels, body composition, and energy.
Why drinking coffee isn't a bad thing especially if you want to lose weight as it helps to burn calories and gives you energy.
How Miray noticed that her stomach would hurt if she drank coffee after taking a break from it for a while.
Josh's own experience with coffee and why he started to only drink espresso starting 6 months ago.
Why drinking caffeine might not be for you if you have a very sensitive immune system.
The fact that you probably need more sleep, not another energy drink to mask how your body is feeling if you're always tired.

[34:30] Individual Food & Beverage Vivoo Recommendations

Important health connections you can make with alcohol and coffee if you're consuming too much of either.
Customized recommendations that Vivoo will give each unique individual for food and beverage.
How easy it is to use the Vivoo product day to day or week to week.
What led Miray to Vivoo as a bioengineer and help people build better health habits for themselves through urine testing.
Miray's own interest in biohacking to improve her own wellness but the disappointment she felt after buying all of these other trackers and receiving very limited data.
The amazing health changes people are seeing because of using Vivoo even if it's something as small as improving their hydration levels.

[42:30] Vivoo's Incredible Biotracking Design

Taking a closer work at how Vivoo actually works plus it's incredible design.
Why it's important that each Vivoo strip is sealed before use so that no air, light, or humidity can impact it.
The special design of the strip that makes it user-friendly and very easy to use.
Why some of the metric colors such as for Vitamin C will change and others will not.
Future plans Vivoo has to keep improving their design such as an add-on for a smart toilet at home.
Their mission to always keep making their system easier for the user, especially their elder community.
What surprises her the most about Vivoo and their product.
Why they manufacture their product in-house.
Their plans to increase the amount of biomarkers that you can track using Vivoo.
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How CGM devices like NutriSense can be a good tool to use in addition to Vivoo.
Miray's experience combining Vivoo with saliva and CGM testing to cross-check everything.
The fact that 60% of Americans are not meeting their daily magnesium intake and 70% are not for calcium.
How important it is to count our nutrients and not just calories in some individuals' cases.

Power Quotes From The Show Common Nutrient Deficiencies in the USA

"Around 60% of Americans are not meeting their daily magnesium intake and it is 70% for calcium. Please be mindful of what you are eating. As well as counting calories, if you are doing that, try to count nutrients as well because as humans are living longer, we need to take better care of ourselves. Many of us will easily live to be 90 years old or older if we continue to take good care of our health. It's important that we have good health as we get older so that we're not in bad shape, barely walking, and suffering for decades. These nutrient deficiencies are really, really important and we need to keep an eye on them on a regular basis." - Miray Tayfun

Vivoo's Positive Encouragement for Lifestyle Change

"I want people to be encouraged by their Vivoo results. If their results are above average, instead of panicking, I want them to see it as an opportunity to make a change to improve their results. The language we use on the app is not rigid but friendly because we don't want to make people feel sad or punished if they're not hydrated but rather encouraged. People don't tend to have a serious lack of information about how to improve their health but they have a lack of motivation and we want to help them with that. A health product and app should be supportive, not make you feel bad." - Miray Tayfun

Living Life Well Every Day

"For me, wellness is listening to your body's voice; listening to your mind's voice. Give it your full attention every day. Wellness is a whole but if one area of it is suffering, it's not the end of the world. You just have to take extra care. Maybe your body needs you to focus on nutrition or hydration more than usual some days. In moments of high stress when your heart is racing, remember to breathe. If you focus on doing something for your health every single day, then your whole body will remain strong." - Miray Tayfun

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About Miray Tayfun

Miray Tayfun is the Co-founder and the CEO of Vivoo, an at-home urine test with an application that measures 11 parameters and delivers personalized advice to individuals so they can improve their health and wellness.

Miray has completed her undergraduate studies in Bioengineering and has graduated from Stanford postgraduate programs specializing in Go-to-Market Strategies as well as Diet and Gene Expression. Miray has previously founded companies in medical diagnostics, smart homes, and smart co-living spaces.

Vivoo, co-founded by Miray Tayfun, is the world’s first at-home urine test that provides personalized lifestyle and nutritional advice based on your results. It tracks 11 parameters: Vitamin C, Magnesium, Salinity, Oxidative Stress, Calcium, pH, Hydration, Ketones, Nitrite, and Kidney & Liver functions. You can get your results in just 90 seconds in the comfort of your home; take the wheel on your health and wellness journey now. We are here for you every step of the way.