Dr. Michael Snyder
Co-Founder, January AI

Why glucose is key to good health

At January, our mission is to increase the world’s “healthspan”—the number of years we remain in good health, free of chronic disease. Research continues to show that managing blood sugar is core to the cause, driven by its ability to regulate weight, cholesterol, inflammation, and so much more.

Now, for the first time, the January app harnesses powerful AI technology to help you better manage your glucose and build the habits that lead to a longer, healthier life.

January’s impact

Grounding ourselves in the science of behavioral psychology, we’ve helped nudge users toward small behavior shifts that work best for them. As a result, we’ve seen thousands of users benefit from improved glucose control, weight loss, and more.

The key behaviors we shift

1
Intermittent fasting
2
Increasing fiber consumption
3
Aligning calorie intake with activity level
4
Getting post-meal movement
5
Reducing glucose-spiking foods

The Results

Non-diabetic users
Users with Type 2 diabetes
16.2
%

Reduction in caloric intake

-4.1 lbs

Mean weight reduction (12-wks)

58
%

Improved Time in Range (70-140 mg/dL)

11.6
%

Increased relative protein intake

22.8
%

Increased relative fiber intake

4.2
%

Reduced carbohydrate intake

7.3
%

Reduction in caloric intake

-10.4 lbs

Mean weight reduction (12-wks)

63
%

Improved Time in Range (70-140 mg/dL)

*Improvement in estimated A1c=0.28%
10.6
%

Increased protein intake relative to total calorie

23.9
%

Increased fiber intake relative to total calorie

4.4
%

Reduced carbohydrate intake

Featured work

We’ve authored multiple whitepapers with rigorously designed clinical studies in metabolic health. This research has enabled our proprietary AI system to accurately predict glucose responses and has validated the impact of the January product.

1

Virtual Blood Glucose Monitoring and Prediction Using Machine Learning

© January
2023
Ashkan Dehghani Zahedani, Arvind Veluvali, Saransh Agarwal Jiayu Zhou, Jingyi Ruan, Michael Snyder, Mark Woodward, Nima Aghaeepour. January AI. Stanford University
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2

Heart Rate and CGM Feature Representation Diabetes Detection From Heart Rate: Learning Joint Features of Heart Rate and Continuous Glucose Monitors Yields Better Representations

© January
2021
Hootan Rashtian, Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, Salar Rahili, Michael Snyder, and Nima Aghaeepour
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3

Machine-Learned Prediction of Glucose Response for 1000 Subjects

© January
2016
Salar Rahili, Parin Dalal, Mehrdad Yazdani, Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, and Michael Snyder
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4

Improvement in Glucose Regulation Using a Digital Tracker and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Healthy Adults and Those with Type 2 Diabetes

© January
2018
Ashkan Dehghani Zahedani, Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, Salar Rahili, Kirill Karlin, Darrin Scilley, Riya Thakkar, Maziyar Saberi, Noosheen Hashemi, Dalia Perelman, Nima Aghaeepour, Tracey McLaughlin, and Michael P. Snyder
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5

Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information

© January
2017
Xiao Li , Jessilyn Dunn , Denis Salins , Gao Zhou, Wenyu Zhou, Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Dalia Perelman, Elizabeth Colbert, Ryan Runge, Shannon Rego, Ria Sonecha, Somalee Datta, Tracey McLaughlin, Michael P. Snyder
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6

Glucotypes reveal new patterns of glucose dysregulation

© January
2018
Heather Hall , Dalia Perelman , Alessandra Breschi , Patricia Limcaoco, Ryan Kellogg, Tracey McLaughlin, Michael Snyder
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7

A longitudinal big data approach for precision health

© January
2019
Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Kévin Contrepois, Kegan J. Moneghetti, Wenyu Zhou, Tejaswini Mishra, Samson Mataraso, Orit Dagan-Rosenfeld, Ariel B. Ganz, Jessilyn Dunn, Daniel Hornburg, Shannon Rego, Dalia Perelman, Sara Ahadi, M. Reza Sailani, Yanjiao Zhou, Shana R. Leopold, Jieming Chen, Melanie Ashland, Jeffrey W. Christle, Monika Avina, Patricia Limcaoco, Camilo Ruiz, Marilyn Tan, Atul J. Butte, George M. Weinstock, George M. Slavich, Erica Sodergren, Tracey L. McLaughlin, Francois Haddad & Michael P. Snyder
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8

Personal aging markers and ageotypes revealed by deep longitudinal profiling

© January
2020
Sara Ahadi, Wenyu Zhou, Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, M. Reza Sailani, Kévin Contrepois, Monika Avina, Melanie Ashland, Anne Brunet & Michael Snyder
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9

Deep longitudinal multiomics profiling reveals two biological seasonal patterns in California

© January
2020
M. Reza Sailani, Ahmed A. Metwally, Wenyu Zhou, Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose, Sara Ahadi, Kevin Contrepois, Tejaswini Mishra, Martin Jinye Zhang, Łukasz Kidziński, Theodore J. Chu & Michael P. Snyder
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10

Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data

© January
2020
Tejaswini Mishra, Meng Wang, Ahmed A. Metwally, Gireesh K. Bogu, Andrew W. Brooks, Amir Bahmani, Arash Alavi, Alessandra Celli, Emily Higgs, Orit Dagan-Rosenfeld, Bethany Fay, Susan Kirkpatrick, Ryan Kellogg, Michelle Gibson, Tao Wang, Erika M. Hunting, Petra Mamic, Ariel B. Ganz, Benjamin Rolnik, Xiao Li & Michael P. Snyder
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Our Advisors

Meet the experts behind our groundbreaking research.

Scientific Advisory Board

Dean at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical School
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Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Endocrinology, Gerontology, & Metabolism
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Tracey McLaughlin, MD, MS
Scientific Advisor
Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Multiomics Integration for Clinical Immunology
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Nima Aghaeepour, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Winner
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Justin Sonnenburg, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Research Dietitian, Stanford University
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Dalia Perelman
Scientific Advisor
Associate Professor University of Michigan Medical School Department of Microbiology & Immunology
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Eric Martens, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Founder at Nautilus Biotechnology and Associate Professor at Stanford University
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Parag Mallick, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Professor Emeritus, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and Chair, American Nutrition Association Board of Directors
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Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD
Scientific Advisor

AI Advisory Board

Professor UC Berkeley, Founder/President/Chief Scientist covariant.ai (formerly Embodied Intelligence), Founder Gradescope
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Pieter Abeel, PhD
AI Advisor
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Chief Scientist at Pinterest, and investigator at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
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Jure Leskovec, PhD
AI Advisor
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley.
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Sergey Levine, PhD
AI Advisor
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
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Zico Kolter, PhD
AI Advisor

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