Gyroscope Food XRAY

Hi Anand, I’m interested to try this. As a new user of Gyroscope, the onboarding doesn’t make it clear what I need to sign up for to use X-Ray, and to get the discount you mentioned. Should I sign up for ‘Coach’? That says $199 per month, not $99 per month.

@blakesamic Awesome, excited to get you set up! Whether you should have a coach or not depends a lot on your goals, your personality, etc. We do recommend it for everyone who can afford one, there’s no substitute for having an expert human by your side helping you figure out the complexities of health. Even if you have equivalent experience, just the time savings and accountability of delegating that to someone else is valuable. But if you just want to use the food xray without coach, you should be able to get started from the link above ("GET IT") or go directly to https://gyrosco.pe/ai/xray/ to subscribe! Going to that page will automatically apply the discount, which will be taken down later today

@maccaw Especially now with sugar being in EVERYTHING, Americans need more than ever a way to help them eat better. @aprilzero have you thought about reaching out to Kaiser? They would be a great partner as they're all about preventative healthcare.

@brett_nord1 Thanks Brett!

@anna_0x Thanks Anna! We do have quite a few people using and enjoying it already, but you’re right convincing more people they need it is important and challenging. About 88 million people (just in the US) are prediabetic and need this, so we have a lot of work to do there. We’ve written more about this in the announcement — https://blog.gyrosco.pe/introduc... — about why this is not just calorie counting. While building this, we discovered calories were just *one* of the 6 essential metrics that combine to your overall meal quality. So if only calories are being tracked or looked at, you’re missing 83% of the insights. If the main feature was calorie tracking then I would agree with you. Seeing a graph of your calories is maybe worth $5 if anything, it is not very useful even though many people think about it since it is the most famous variable. In reality, most people should be looking at how much protein they’re getting (~100g+ is the recommended daily average for most people (it goes up as you get older as well as being more active)), glucose spikes, micronutrient density, and more, at least as much as focusing on total calories. Probably a better way to think about what is a good price is how much people would pay for: living 10 years longer, losing 10-20 pounds, reversing their obesity or prediabetes, saving 3-4 hours a month, having more energy every day, etc. which are some of the many benefits that can come from improving your nutrition.

That’s all good, but it seems too expensive. Can’t you split it out into tiers and people could just pay for what they need or can afford?

@jasonology yep! you can browse the cheaper options on the site, this is a higher end version for people who want the full food tracking experience but you can get started for just a couple dollars a month