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What is FemTech?

August 2, 2024

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Menstrual cycle tracking apps are downloaded tens of millions of times on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. They are by far the best known and most used products in a broader technology market: FemTech, which focuses exclusively on women, their health and their well-being.

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Controlling your fertility for the purpose of contraception or conception is the promise of menstrual cycle tracking apps, the most downloaded FemTech products in the world. However, their reliability is not foolproof.

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Who can you talk to about menstrual pain, vulvar pain, perineal reeducation, libido, menopause when you live in the middle of a medical desert? Or when you simply don't dare to bring up these issues with your doctor? FemTech offers many tools promising to take control of your sexual, gynecological, fertility, and general health with an approach adapted to women.

But not everything is perfect in the world of FemTech! Many products or services relating to health issues are very poorly scientifically evaluated, or even unreliable. It is difficult to make your choice among these products which can nevertheless be a great source of information and emancipation. Some elements of response to understand what this booming well-being market is.

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