Take Control of Your Health
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Most medications were tested on men alone, so if you happen to be a woman, like us, you might not be getting the best treatment for you.
Levana is here to change that.
Our app enables you to track responses to meds, analyze them and facilitate a data-driven conversation with doctors, to find the right dose for YOU.
How it Works
We women have cycles, meaning our hormone levels change throughout the month. Unfortunately, traditional prescriptions often fail to address these fluctuations, leaving us with doses that don’t suit our true needs.
Levana is our way to fix this. With our app, you can track your cycle along with your medication for Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD, enabling you to tailor the right dose for YOU.
Track
Anonymously answer a daily questionnaire, to record your symptoms and doses, in accordance with your cycle.
Learn
Receive insights that allow you to have an educated, data-based conversation with your doctor, and tailor your prescription to your individual cycle.
Impact
Help other women get the right prescriptions by anonymously sharing your data. This will allow us to create a powerful tool which takes cycles into account and could finally impact decision making about treatment for women.
What motivates us
The guidelines for drug dosing were determined based on clinical trials conducted primarily on men. Women’s hormonal cycles are not taken into consideration, even though these hormones significantly influence the effectiveness of many common medications. As a result, women are routinely mis-medicated.
We can't make med companies test their products on women but we CAN give you a powerful tool to study how your meds AFFECT YOU, so you can have a well-informed conversation with your doctor, and receive the best treatment.
We believe that dosing should be simple, medication should be effective and side effects should be minimal.
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We believe that you know best
We want to hear how you feel and how your medication is affecting you and meeting your medical needs. With a data driven approach we provide you and your physician with tools to tailor dosing to your unique needs.
Awareness, ownership and agency are the leading principles of our work and we want you to join us in this journey of changing the way women are medicated. Help close the gender health equity gap.
Join our community of Beta testers who are monitoring daily on our app. Your reporting will help us shape the very first dosing recommendation tool.
We will always keep your data anonymous.
Press
JNS - Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli startup personalizing women’s medication is ‘reaching for the moon’
CTech - Calcalist
Israel is poised to lead the way in FemTech, but challenges remain in realizing full potential
Our story
Dr. Ilana Kwartin is leading the movement.
It is time to take ownership of your health.
Like all the good problems in the world, the problem Levana is striving to solve, was discovered through a personal experience.
When my son was diagnosed with ADHD four years ago, I was told it is hereditary and that I should get a diagnosis as well.
After I was diagnosed with ADHD (what I now know to be “the mommy effect“) I was soon referred to receive a treatment plan for my medication. I was prescribed Focalin 30mg.
As I was taking it daily, I noticed that the effectiveness fluctuated – some days the medicine was “working” and some days it was as if I wasn’t taking it at all.
As someone who tracks her cycle, I also noticed that there seemed to have been a correlation between the cycle’s hormonal fluctuations and the effectiveness of the medicine fluctuations. Surely, there must be a connection!
When I tried boosting with 10mg of medication on my menstruation days, my symptoms were improving.
I wondered if I was the only one experiencing this and started asking women around me – most of whom agreed that their medication is not consistently effective.
I looked into clinical research and found out that estrogen has a huge part in enhancing dopamine function while reducing ADHD symptoms.
This led me to a journey of finding a solution to this problem. One that puts women in the center, and their self reported symptoms as a means to titrate their medication, in sync with their hormonal cycles.
I need more women to join and start taking daily self reporting notes, so that the data shows the right fluctuations to correspond with the right dosage of your medicine.
I can’t wait to hear your story and see you self report every day!
The Team
Learn More
Research
Curious about what research supports the need for Levana? want to learn more about the big problem we are solving?
Read about Estrogen Informed Dosing here!
Science Direct
2002
Are there differential subjective effects of d-amphetamine by gender, hormone levels and menstrual cycle phase?
Molecular Psychiatry
2021
Sex differences in methylphenidate-induced dopamine increases in ventral striatum.
PubMed
2020
Acute effects of d-amphetamine during the early and late follicular phases of the menstrual cycle in women
PubMed
2014
Should we take the menstrual cycle into consideration in creating treatment plans for women?
Biology of Sex Differences
2020
The common practice of prescribing equal drug doses to women and men neglects sex differences in pharmacokinetics and risks overmedication of women and contributes to female-biased adverse drug reactions.
MDPI
2020
The Role of Estrogen Receptors and Their Signaling across Psychiatric Disorders.
Treat
If you were diagnosed with ADHD and are taking medication, ask yourself:
Do you feel the medication is working well for you?
Have you noticed that some days the medication is working and others it doesn’t?
Have you seen a correlation between the days you are menstruating and the days the medication is not working for you?
Is the medication most affective on your ovulation days?
Have you discussed dosage change with your clinician? What was their response?
Have you tried other medications before?
Are you diagnosed with other disorders and are taking additional medication?
Would you like to feel better?
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