Victoria Song

Politico has reported that a lot of Washington staffers are wearing loops and aura rings.

Aura is lobbying to have a different classification of device called a digital screener.

And that's just relaxed FDA regulations so that they don't have to go through as rigorous a process as they have been.

And there's valid legitimate reasons for doing that.

Having to go through the FDA clearance process can cost millions of dollars.

some of these features, these detection screening features could save lives.

I mean, we know that the Apple Watch has saved lives, for example, right?

It is one of the reasons why the smartwatch didn't just die into oblivion.

It's that we have atrial fibrillation.

People viewed it as something that was integral to saving their lives.

And we have real life stories of that being the case.

You could look at my case and say this was an unmitigated success.

because I did finally find an answer to something that had been plaguing me for 10 years.

That too.

Or, you know, there's a strong argument that, you know, medication is important and can help when genetic deficiencies or genetic predispositions are not great for you.

But, you know, what's happening in Washington with the discussion towards health tech and wearables,

It informs the features that come out.

It informs why an AI nutrition chatbot in your Garmin app or your ladder strength training app might tell you that you need to eat 135 grams of protein because RFK Jr.

has said that there is a war on protein, even though there is no scientific evidence proving that.

These things are so tightly married together that we can't talk about one without talking about the other.