Why JOuHealth exists

It was 2022. Two years earlier Covid had closed the borders, and my business with them. I worked in travel and services oriented towards China, and overnight the income was gone. From the outside it looked like a financial problem. Inside it was something else.

One weekend we drove out as a family to rest. On the motorway I collapsed. I was certain I was having a heart attack. A series of examinations followed and every one came back the same: there is nothing wrong with you.

A year later it happened again, harder. The doctor in the ambulance said something I had never heard before. „You have had a panic attack."

Then came a stretch I still remember clearly. I could not drive. I could not take a tram or a bus. I could not walk into a shopping centre full of people. I avoided anything that raised the tension in me.

I had genetic testing, microbiome analysis and full blood work done. I wore a glucose sensor. I read every book on health, sleep, stress and metabolism I could get hold of.

• Genetic testing
• Microbiome
• Full blood work
• Glucose sensor
• Wearable data

And then I sat in front of a pile of paper, PDFs buried somewhere in email and results spread across five different apps, and realised the simplest thing was missing. One file. A place where everything sits together and stays at hand, where I can see how the numbers develop, and where I can go looking for what to do about them. Not one result from one day, but the whole history.

No such tool existed then. Today it can be built.

JOuHealth is exactly what I was looking for back then. One health record where you upload blood tests, genetics, microbiome and data from your watch. For every value you see where it sits against the reference range and which way it is heading over time, explained in language you actually understand rather than laboratory jargon.

What you make of it stays between you and your doctor. What the app gives you is the overview and the context, not a diagnosis.

It is a record for the whole family, and the data sits encrypted in the European Union.