The Technology

Wellness used to run on guesswork.
Now it runs on data.

For most of history, understanding what's actually happening inside your body meant waiting for an annual check-up and hoping for the best in between. Scientists have long talked about the body's own "aging clock" — the internal markers that show how fast or slow you're really ageing, separate from the number of candles on a cake. For just as long, people have chased a modern-day fountain of youth: something that lets you actually see that clock, not just guess at it. Today, one of the clearest examples of technology finally closing that gap is a small device called Prysm iO™.

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Prysm iO device and companion app showing a Prysm Score
Why It Matters

Tech + Wellness is where this is headed

The device itself is one product. But it's also a useful stand-in for a much bigger shift: wellness is moving away from generic advice and annual snapshots, and toward continuous, personalized, data-driven insight — the same shift that's already happened in fitness tracking, sleep tracking, and continuous glucose monitoring.

Tools like this are still evolving quickly. What a scan can measure, how fast it can measure it, and how personalized the resulting recommendations are will all keep improving. That's exactly why we think this space — technology applied to everyday wellness — is one of the more interesting places to be building something right now, rather than a finished story.

The tools to actually see what's happening in your own body now exist. The question is who uses them.

What It Actually Does

A 15-second scan, not a lab visit

Prysm iO™ is a small, portable, AI-powered device that uses non-invasive skin-scanning technology on the fingertip to measure skin carotenoids — antioxidants your body relies on to support immune function, skin, heart and brain health.

15 sec
Time to complete a scan
20M+
Antioxidant scans behind the underlying research database
R² 0.75–0.77
Correlation with blood serum levels in published clinical validation
How It Works

From scan to plan

1

Scan

You rest a fingertip on the device for around 15 seconds. No blood draw, no lab, no waiting days for results.

2

Read

The device and its companion app translate that scan into a score reflecting your current antioxidant status — a proxy for how well your nutrition and lifestyle choices are actually showing up in your body.

3

Track

Because it takes seconds, you can rescan regularly — daily, weekly, monthly — and watch the number move as your habits change, instead of guessing whether something is "working."

4

Adjust

The insight feeds back into a personalized wellness plan, so the next step is based on your own data — not a generic recommendation built for an average person who isn't you.

Finger scanning the Prysm iO device
Worth Knowing

What this is — and isn't

It's a wellness tracking tool. It gives you a data point on antioxidant status that you can track over time, to help make more informed everyday nutrition and lifestyle choices.

It isn't a diagnostic or medical device, and it doesn't replace regular checkups or advice from a qualified healthcare professional. If you have a specific health concern, that's always the right first call — this is a tool for everyday tracking, not a substitute for medical care.

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Prysm iO™ is a product developed by a US publicly listed wellness technology company. Members of the Empowered Living team possess the right of use to this device. Content on this page is for general informational purposes, reflects publicly available product information, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, nor to represent guaranteed results of any kind. Individual results vary.