Jun 2, 2026
Most people get their hormone levels tested once a year — if they think about it at all. Marina Pavlovic Rivas, Co-Founder & CEO of Eli Health, is on a mission to change that.
Ramon Vela
sits down with Marina for a fascinating conversation about the
technology she spent nearly seven years building: a saliva-based,
at-home hormone monitoring platform that delivers cortisol,
testosterone, and progesterone results to your phone in minutes,
giving people real-time visibility into one of the most overlooked
dimensions of their health.
* The gap nobody was solving. After searching online for a way to
track her own hormonal data, Marina realized the product didn't
exist. So she built it, spending more than six years on R&D,
regulatory approval, and venture capital before bringing it to
market.
* Hormones affect everything, not just fertility. From energy and
mood to sleep, libido, bone health, cardiac health, and cognitive
performance, Marina breaks down why hormonal data is one of the
most important and most underused signals in personal wellness.
* The wearable parallel that puts it all in context. Checking your
hormones once a year is like measuring your heartbeat once a year:
technically useful, but dangerously incomplete. Eli Health gives users
the same continuous feedback loop that smartwatches brought to
sleep and heart rate.
* A six-second saliva test. Results in 20 minutes. Users collect
saliva, wait 20 minutes, then photograph the test to receive
results directly in the app. Repeat over time and you build a
hormonal picture that no annual blood draw could ever provide.
* Cortisol first, for good reason. Eli launched with
cortisol because it sits at the top of the hormonal cascade. When
cortisol is off, everything else follows. Testosterone and
progesterone, including their interactions, are coming next.
Join us in listening to this episode for a genuinely eye-opening
conversation about hormonal health, the future of at-home
diagnostics, and what it means to build a category that didn't
exist before you created it.
Whether you're a health-conscious consumer, a founder, or someone
who just wants to understand what their body is actually telling
them, this one is for you.
Visit: https://eli.health/
Try their Instant Cortisol Test: https://eli.health/products/cortisol?view=sl-44128C61
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