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Digital Menstrual Tracking May Do More Harm Than Good, Experts Warn
Key Takeaways
- Katharine Lee and colleagues argue in The BMJ that digital menstrual tracking risks causing more harm than benefit and needs greater scrutiny.
- Menstrual tracking apps and other femtech tools claim to scientifically analyze personal data to improve health, well-being and performance based on cycle phase.
- The authors say neither menstrual tracking nor cycle syncing has been convincingly shown to improve health or performance measures.
- Decades of sports science research show no overall effect of menstrual cycle phase on performance, injury risk or health, with any effects trivial and highly individualized.
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DT Editorial Team··via medicalxpress.com