Blake T. Gurfein

The medical community is just at the tip of the iceberg in developing novel bioelectronic therapies for treating chronic conditions and diseases. And as we have seen with other technologies, paradigm shifts can happen fast. My company, Tivic Health Systems Inc., developed a bioelectronic device that uses advanced microcurrent technology (low-level electrical stimulation) to treat allergy-related sinus pain: ClearUP Sinus Pain Relief.

Prolonged chronic stress has deleterious effects on immune function and is associated with numerous negative health outcomes. The spleen harbors one-fourth of the body’s lymphocytes and mediates both innate and adaptive immune responses. However, the subset of splenic lymphocytes that respond, either adaptively or maladaptively, to various stressors remains largely unknown.