Exclusive: Oura Ring and Hormone Tracker Mira Collaborate to Bring Hormone Health to Health Tracking

Hormonal health company Mira has partnered with Oura, makers of Oura ringto combine the hormone data collected by its egg-shaped monitor with the sleep, alertness and temperature indicators of the Oura. This marks the first-ever integration of laboratory hormone data into daily health tracking.

« Hormones have traditionally been treated as something you measure in isolation — maybe once, in a clinical setting, and then you’re sent on your way. But that’s never the way women actually experience their bodies, » Mira CEO Sylvia Kang told CNET. « At Mira, we’ve really focused on bringing hormones into everyday life because they shape how you sleep, how much energy you have, how you feel emotionally, even how happy or resilient you feel. »

Mira is the first and only hormone monitor powered by fluorescence-based detection (FluoMapping technology). This is the same technology used in clinical laboratories to deliver precise numerical concentrations of hormones.

To collect your hormone data, you dip one of Mira’s test sticks into your urine (for which a cup is provided), the stick is inserted into the hormone monitor for 16 seconds, and the results are uploaded to the free Mira app. There, you can now view your Oura data to see how your hormones may be affecting the rest of your body.

You can use Mira’s hormone monitor to track the following: luteinizing hormone (LH), a fertility hormone that controls ovarian function; E3G, a metabolite of estradiol or E2, a type of estrogen found in urine; PdG, urinary progesterone metabolite; and FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone), a pituitary hormone that stimulates ovarian follicles. A metabolite is any substance produced during metabolism, such as the end products of chemical processes in your body.

With this more comprehensive view of your health, you can better understand why you might feel more tired one day than the next. People navigating perimenopausemenopause, fertility or menstrual cycle can also use this information to become aware of what is happening in their body and why. This, in turn, can help confirm ovulation, influence everyday decisions for improved rest and recovery, and prepare users for more informed conversations with their doctors.

Mira states that Oura members’ consent to share their data with Mira is essential to this integration, and Mira’s privacy policy is simple: personal health data is confidential and is never sold or shared with third parties. Anonymized sensitive data is only used to improve the app experience with HIPAA and GDPR compliant service providers. HIPAA is the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, while GDPR is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Kang tells CNET that when Mira started working with Oura, the question wasn’t, « How do we integrate data? » but « How do we help women understand their lives better? » This new partnership serves as a reminder that no part of the body operates in a vacuum. Context is vital.