Hormones play a crucial role in many aspects of our health from regulation of metabolism to growth and development, and reproduction to stress responses, managing mood, emotions and sleep-wake cycles. Monitoring them is difficult as not only do hormone levels vary greatly across the day but also by individual patient. Standard techniques for the diagnosis and management of hormone-related disorders rely on taking single measurements usually in the morning, which is problematic because many hormone levels change in an oscillating manner.
In contrast, U-RHYTHM measures the patterns of biologically active molecules in the tissues and how they change over time. This information can be analysed to identify potential - and importantly the early - disruptions which could affect a patient's health.
Dynamic Therapeutics was founded by Professor Stafford Lightman, Dr Georgina Hazell from Bristol Medical School and Alex Caccia, and is based on more than 25 years research on hormones.