Heali’s app provides personalized nutrition guide to using food as medicine
Summary
We think it shouldnt take patients decades, like me, to find out that food is an option.The personalized nutrition and supplements market is a crowded one, estimated to be valued at $43 billion. For example, weve previously covered apps like Wellory, Lifesum and Zoe, to name a few.Youll see similar features on Heali, like meal planning and tracking, an in-app scanner for the grocery store, recipes and recommendations. Due to its dietary engine, Heali is considered the first clinical grade hyper-personalized nutrition platform that can support medical nutrition therapy at scale, Dardashti said.In its beta period, patients with irritable bowel syndrome who participated in a clinical trial of Heali saw 2.6 times the improvement in their quality of life and their symptoms improved 2x over those in the trial who did not use Heali.Heali provides its app via healthcare partnerships, like the one it has with Boston Heart Diagnostics. The startup is still in the very early stages, though Dardashti disclosed Heali has more than 10,000 users today.Today, the company announced $3 million in seed funding led by Astanor Ventures. Dardashti intends to use the capital to accelerate product development and partnership acquisition and grow its commercialization model of medically tailored meal suggestions.