Navigating Complex Relationships with Grace McNamara

Yeah.

So I'm lucky that I spent a lot of time in technology, as I, as I mentioned.

I'm currently spend most of my time with a company called Elfie, which is a company based out of Singapore initially, originally, and obviously out of New York, um, which is literally bringing together all of the software and the apps that you would have, you know, seen and heard of over the last 15 years.

It's consolidated all of them pretty much into one application, which is phenomenal.

So it ultimately changes the game for patients to be able to actually manage, uh, manage everything from their sleep to their nutrition, to their activity, to their medications, to their glucose, to their hypertension, you name it, in one place.

So much easier for the, for the patient and much easier for the doctor then who's actually supporting them.

And, and reality is that this world is if you're a patient with more than one condition, and even if you are a patient with one condition, you have multiple doctors, be it your GP, be it your cardiologist, endocrinologist, whatever, we all have specialists.

Uh, so it's important to bring all that data together.

And I think the world we live in today is we all know, Padraig, between AI and LLMs, people are nervous about them as well as excited about them.

Uh, and reality from a health perspective, data is absolute power, right? If we can understand ourselves and our bodies and what's happening, then we can actually start to move to, you know, early diagnosis, we can move to better treatments.

A- and obviously as a, as the world of women's health right now, we've massively under-researched women for the last 50 years.

It's a...

We're scratching the surface in so many ways.

And data's the only way we're going to leapfrog, you know, forward.

We can't spend another 50 years catching up to what had been done over the last 50 years if it had started.

We have to leapfrog and do 50 years ultimately in, in three years.

Um, and AI and LLMs and data is going to be the, the key for that with it.

Um, so yeah.

So what, what I'm trying to hopefully do right now is, is pull together that expertise of clinical and the expertise of data, AI engineers, in a way that actually moves the needle, uh, for women and, and for men to actually feel, feel healthier, get healthier, get the solutions they need, but also to maintain them.

And at the same time, hopefully understand it better.

Because I think we, we, we live in a world, thankfully, where a lot of us are very curious, hence, you know, podcasts or sharing more knowledge than ever before.

If we could educate people on how this works, like how your physiology works, you know, how this disease operates, and then how do these medications or treatments work as well, then hopefully people will understand them and stay on them better.

Uh, 'cause we definitely live in a world that, where we don't have enough people diagnosed early, which doesn't help your treatment pr- progression.

We have incorrect medications being applied because we don't know a person is actually, uh, what they're being treated for, or multiple medications who interact with each, with, with, with each other and cause side effects, which possibly ends up in another medication, s- side effect, which is not the way we want to get to.

Um, but ultimately we want people to be able to, you know, be healthier, live longer.