Hydration
Drinking less doesn't change how much waste you need to excrete, only how much water carries it. Urine gets more concentrated and darker.
2.0 → 1.0 L of drinks
- Urine volume1.7 L ↓ 0.7 L
- Osmolality440 ↑ 1068
- Specific gravity1.013 ↑ 1.031
Healthcare
Metabolic and urinary health analytics.
Automatic urine analysis with high throughput, instant results, a lower cost per test and zero consumable waste.
Performance and prevention
Personal health, applied to you.
From athletes looking for an edge to high-risk populations, anyone can benefit from knowing their metabolic health. Daily monitoring of the byproducts of metabolic breakdown closes the feedback loop between regimen and results.
Because MobileSense needs no test kits or disposables, continuous monitoring doesn't mean continuous waste.
Urine and lifestyle
What you eat, drink and do shows up in your urine.
The kidneys keep blood composition steady by excreting whatever the body doesn't need, so urine chemistry records your day. Each card compares a typical day with one change, using our interactive kidney model.
Protein
Nitrogen from protein leaves as urea, the most abundant solute in urine. Protein also adds acid, which lowers urine pH.
1.0 → 2.0 g/kg of protein
- Urea257 mmol ↑ 657 mmol
- pH6.1 ↓ 5.3
- Blood urea N10 mg/dL ↑ 25 mg/dL
Salt
The kidneys excrete nearly all the sodium you eat, so urine sodium closely tracks salt intake. That makes it a practical dietary marker.
3.4 → 6.0 g of sodium
- Sodium127 mmol ↑ 240 mmol
- Osmolality440 ↑ 573
Fruit and vegetables
Produce is rich in potassium and base-forming salts. More servings raise urine potassium and make urine less acidic.
4 → 9 servings a day
- Potassium57 mmol ↑ 98 mmol
- pH6.1 ↑ 6.5
Exercise and heat
Sweat takes water and salt away before the kidneys see them. Urine volume drops, and the kidneys hold on to sodium.
30 → 90 min of exercise, hot day
- Urine volume1.7 L ↓ 0.5 L
- Sodium127 mmol ↓ 65 mmol
- Osmolality440 ↑ 1200
Blood sugar
Glucose is normally fully reabsorbed. Above about 180 mg/dL the transporters saturate and glucose spills into urine.
95 → 250 mg/dL blood glucose
- Glucose0.00 g ↑ 44 g
- Osmolality440 ↑ 585
Typical day: 2 L of drinks, 1 g/kg protein, 3.4 g sodium, 4 servings of produce, 30 minutes of exercise, 70 kg adult with healthy kidneys. Modeled 24-hour values for illustration, not clinical reference data.
High-quality data
SERS uses light to interrogate the fluid: direct optical chemical detection with advantages over other sensing techniques.
Data visualization
Our software automates data collection, visualizes each capture and produces automated reports for your clients.
Better decisions
Review data and share analysis reports to turn measurements into real insight.
Knowledge base
Building on decades of research.
The constituents of urine can indicate that the body is processing nutrients suboptimally or fighting an infection. Over time, we aim to learn how biomarkers found in urine correlate with health. Selected publications on urine SERS:
- Detecting urine metabolites of bladder cancer by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopySpectrochimica Acta Part A, 2021
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of urine by an ingenious near-infrared Raman spectrometerProceedings of SPIE vol. 6826, 2007
MobileSense is a research and monitoring instrument. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any disease.
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