Launch HN: Caelum Health (YC S17) – Digital Therapeutic for Stomach Problems https://ift.tt/2KgggJK

Launch HN: Caelum Health (YC S17) – Digital Therapeutic for Stomach Problems We’re Luke and Lauren, the founders of Caelum Health ( http://caelumhealth.com ). Caelum is a digital therapeutic for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. We optimize your diet and figure out which foods are driving your stomach problems. Lauren is an MD from UPenn who saw how patients with stomach problems (IBS alone affects 15-20% of people) couldn’t get the care they need. The best treatments - diet and lifestyle changes - work in clinical trials, but are extremely hard to execute in the real world without continuous expert guidance. Very few patients have the resources to afford this type of guidance. Our app fixes this by providing 1-on-1 digital coaching (via messaging). We guide patients through the leading IBS diet (the Low-FODMAP Diet) with turn-by-turn directions and daily lessons/exercises. Currently, the diet requires several stages of eliminating food groups and then adding them back in to see whether symptoms change - forcing each patient to “start from scratch” even though many other patients have gone through the same process. We leverage user data to personalize each patient’s program based on their eating habits, past food trials, and demographics (age, gender, ethnicity, etc). We’re launching our consumer-facing product and will be starting our clinical trial soon. We’re a sibling team and have wanted to start a company together since we were kids. When Luke went into tech and then business school, and Lauren into healthcare investing and then medical school, we thought it probably wouldn’t happen. We were obviously wrong. We became pretty obsessed with bringing data to medicine and applying it to the treatments right in front of us: food, exercise, sleep, stress-reduction. April 25, 2018 at 11:11PM