What does my best time to vacation mean and does it matter what hemisphere I'm in?
The week is determined by chronobiology and not so much on HealthType. A lot of this is proprietary info but here’s what we can say about the trends we have for immune drops at certain times of year and influence your vacation recommendation and time of lowered immunity:
When your avatar is created, Shae processes 10,000+ data points to formulate evidence-based and scientifically-informed predictions about the state of your body and its health, including your natural biological rhythms. Your ideal time for vacation draws from understandings about your circadian rhythm (the natural cycle of physical, mental and behaviour change that the body goes through in a 24-hour cycle) and the science of chronobiology (a field of biology that examines timing processes, including periodic phenomena such as adaptation to solar- and lunar-related rhythms) that helps Shae correlate the optimal (and sub-optimal) state of your health at different times throughout the year.
- Though many people think about the immune system being weaker in the winter because we’re prone to getting flus, Shae delves much deeper than that. We acknowledge that there are inherent differences in people’s immune systems (much like what’s revealed in this study) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328245/ and the endogenous/exogenous factors that may influence them (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036981140700274X).
- We're not privy to reveal everything we have discovered but the month of birth is related to the immune system in many ways. For just a few examples, see: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-10-69, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941399/, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/1676651, and http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/15905708.
- We also have a separate risk factor for immune issues that considers things like seasons (see https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8000), age (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26702035/ ) gender (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15485092/) and a few other variables.
When your avatar is created, Shae processes 10,000+ data points to formulate evidence-based and scientifically-informed predictions about the state of your body and its health, including your natural biological rhythms. Your ideal time for vacation draws from understandings about your circadian rhythm (the natural cycle of physical, mental and behaviour change that the body goes through in a 24-hour cycle) and the science of chronobiology (a field of biology that examines timing processes, including periodic phenomena such as adaptation to solar- and lunar-related rhythms) that helps Shae correlate the optimal (and sub-optimal) state of your health at different times throughout the year.