According to a 2014 CDC report on diabetes, 9.3 percent of the American population has been diagnosed as diabetic –that’s about 29 million- while another estimated 8.1 million individuals are undiagnosed.
This means that roughly 1 in 10 Americans are diabetic. Diabetes is currently described as an epidemic because of its prevalence in the American society and the world at large. As a result, many organizations are taking initiatives to stem the tide of diabetes.
For some, it’s in the form of education, while for others, it’s through the development of technological devices that can help people determine their blood sugar levels. One of these is the PkVitaity K’Watch and medical wearable device.
What Is PKVitality and the K-Watch?
In order to check their blood sugar, most people would have to be pricked with a needle, and their blood taken to determine how much glucose they have in their blood. While it’s not a big deal, frequent pricks can become tedious and uncomfortable.
Enter PKVitality’s K’Watch. Imagine a pain-free, highly accurate way to determine your blood glucose levels. The only thing required is to wear a stylish wristwatch around all day, apply some pressure whenever you want, and voila, you have your accurate blood sugar readings.
This is what the K’Watch Glucose does. It offers a pain-free, non-cumbersome way to monitor blood sugar levels, anytime, anywhere. So, all a diabetic has to do to check how much glucose they’ve got in their blood is to simply wear the watch, take the occasional reading by pressing down their thumb on the watch’s sensor, and they’re fine.
The watch directly syncs to its iOS or android app and can provide daily readings multiple times a day over the course of 30 days.
There are currently two K’Watch types available. These are
- K’Watch Glucose for diabetics
- K’Watch Athlete for athletes
We’ve already touched on the first one in previous paragraphs. The second one however, is primarily for athletes who want to monitor their lactate levels. Lactic acid plays a key role in performance, recovery and endurance during training's and workouts. Tracking your lactate levels can help you optimize your workouts for faster recovery and better sports performance.
How Can You Benefit?
Using these watches can provide tremendous benefits, taking your health to optimal levels, improving your ability to perform better, and helping you stay healthy. Diabetics are always at risk of suffering from high blood sugar levels –a condition known as hyperglycemia, simply because they don’t produce enough insulin.
With the K’Watch Glucose version, you can easily check your blood sugar levels right after a meal to determine if you’ll need your insulin shot immediately.
For athletes, lactate can be both friend and foe, depending on how much you have in your system. Have just the right amount and it can help you push your boundaries seeing as it can temporarily replace the oxygen deficit you experience during workouts.
Have too much, and you’ll most likely suffer what is known as lactic acidosis –it’s the reason you have cramps, nausea, extremely high pulse rate and excruciating pain when you push yourself too hard.
It’s your body’s way of telling you to stop what you’re doing. Wearing this watch can help you gradually increase your lactate threshold so that you can push yourself gradually and improve on your stamina and endurance without being fatigued.
PKVitality’s K’Watch Review Summary
Up till now, this amazing invention has been available to only a few thousand individuals who benefited immensely. These people got them through the crowdfunding initiative that was launched by the company.
Now, the company is on a mission to make this incredible technology available to millions of people in the US and across the globe. The ultimate goal is for people to be able to purchase them from shops as a wearable medical device. But, doing that is going to take a lot of time, effort and most importantly money to push the initiative.
PKVitality’s CEO, Luc Pierart says the company needs funds to fine-tune the technology so it can scale the production of the devices, ultimately making them available to the public as well as pushing through the necessary approval and certification required by local medical regulatory bodies across the globe.
How You Can Help
If this interests you, you can join the crowdfunding initiative either as a Contributor or as an Investor. Contributors can simply pre-order the device for 50 percent less than it would cost when it retails, while Investors can purchase shares in PKVitality itself at a 50 percent discount.
Intending contributors can find out how they can contribute here, while intending investors should visit this page for more information.
