Emilė Radytė: Revolutionising Women's Health Through Brain Stimulation

What if we could transform how we treat women's health issues, from accepting pain and mood swings as 'normal' to addressing them at their neural source? This is a question that challenges decades of medical practice. While most treatments rely on hormones and painkillers with concerning side effects, few have explored the root cause: our brain's response to hormonal changes.

In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Emilė Radytė - the founder of Sapphire Neuroscience and an Oxford-trained neuroscientist - explains how she is pioneering this paradigm shift. Born in Lithuania and educated at Harvard before pursuing her PhD at Oxford, Emilė's journey through emergency medicine revealed a critical gap in healthcare - the overwhelming number of women suffering from mental health issues closely tied to their reproductive cycles. This observation, combined with her expertise in neuroscience and engineering, led her to develop Nettle - the world's first brain stimulation device specifically designed for PMS and menstrual pain.

In this enlightening conversation, Emilė shares her groundbreaking approach to women's health through neuroscience. From explaining how transcranial direct current stimulation can rebalance brain activity to discussing the latest research on menstrual cycles' effects on cognition, she reveals how technology could free women from accepting monthly suffering as inevitable. Through her work, Emilė demonstrates how understanding our brain's response to hormonal changes could revolutionise women's healthcare, offering hope for a future where women no longer need to "push through" reproductive health challenges.