Why we threw out the Mifflin–St Jeor formula.
Group averages from 1990 are a strange way to tell a single human what their body does today. Here's the math we use instead.
A metabolic research platform · iOS
TraceHealth is a measurement tool for the body. Weight, intake, energy, and the slow signals from your gut — all in one calm interface, all corrected by a real agent that reads what you eat the way a dietitian would.
The thesis
Calorie formulas were built on group averages from decades ago. TraceHealth reads your intake and your weight curve and recalibrates a TDEE that actually fits — daily, quietly, in the background.
Talk, snap, or paste. An agent — not a barcode database — reads the meal, asks for the one thing it needs to be sure, and logs accurate macros.
Scan the scale, or sync from Apple Health. A smoothed trend line cuts through the daily noise — water, glycogen, the gym yesterday.
Sleep, gut feeling, soreness, mood — the soft signals that turn a spreadsheet into a story about your body.
Features
We solve a small equation between your trend weight and your trend intake to back out the calories your body is actually burning. No more guessing from a height-weight formula.
Steps, workouts, body composition, sleep — pulled in automatically. We don't overwrite anything you didn't ask us to.
A daily 5-second check-in: how the gut feels, mood, energy. Patterns surface against what you ate three days ago — not just last night.
A Hacker's Diet-style exponential smoothing strips out the daily fluctuations. You see the line your body is actually following.
Why it's accurate
Most AI counters look at a photo, hallucinate a number, and move on. Our agent reasons about portion size, cooking method, the oil you didn't mention, the side dish behind the plate — then asks one quick question if it isn't sure.
Pricing
Pick the rhythm that matches how seriously you want to trace. Cancel anytime — your data exports as CSV in one tap.
Everything you need to start tracing.
For people running a real experiment on themselves.
The Journal
Group averages from 1990 are a strange way to tell a single human what their body does today. Here's the math we use instead.
Cooking oil is the single most under-counted ingredient in self-tracked diets. We fixed that with one question.
A short essay on exponential smoothing, glycogen, and why your Monday scale is lying to you politely.
Begin
From $1.25 a week. iOS only. Cancel anytime, and your data is always yours to export.