Friday. September 25, 2026

Introducing Helse: Stop Reacting to Your Health

A couple of winters ago, a week before Christmas, my partner’s brother-in-law died of a heart attack at 35. It wasn’t a bolt from the blue — for months he knew something was wrong, and the system kept telling him it was stress. I wrote about it here. The autopsy found a 90% blockage and a pancreatic tumor nobody had gone looking for. Every warning sign had been there, assessed one at a time, and waved through.

That’s the thing about how we do health: it waits for a crisis. Your data lives in a dozen portals, your labs come back “normal” (which doesn’t mean what you think it means), and nobody — no doctor, no app — is holding the whole thread and watching it move.

So I built the tool I wish my family had had. It’s called Helse, and today it’s in beta.

Helse pulls your scattered health data into one picture and actually watches it. Lab PDFs, clinic reports, wearables, supplements, meds — it reads them (Claude does the heavy lifting, even turning a screenshot of a clinic result into a structured record), puts every result, appointment, and note on one timeline, and grades them against optimal ranges, not the population average built to catch disease once it’s already here. When something’s worth watching, it becomes a tracked concern — not a number you forget by the time you’re back in the parking lot.

The multi-profile part has a sillier origin: I was trying to keep track of my dogs’ vet visits, scattered across clinics, and realized it was the same problem one step sideways. So Helse keeps a profile for everyone you look after — people and pets.

None of this is about becoming a hypochondriac or replacing your doctor. It’s the opposite of anxiety: the calm of actually knowing, of catching the slow drift before it becomes an event. Health managed the way an actuary manages risk — trends, not snapshots; probabilities, not panic.

Helse is in beta now at gethelse.com, with access to practitioners who read labs this way. If your own health data has ever felt like it was working against you, come kick the tires — and tell me what’s missing.

Stop reacting to your health. Start staying ahead of it.

— Olga

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