How useful would you find regular home urine testing?

This is one aspect of the so-called quantified self, or personal quantification, that I had not yet tried, and that had aroused my curiosity: turning the urine test that doctors ask for relatively frequently into a routine home test, and using it not so much as a diagnostic tool, which is not advisable, but instead as an indicator of my overall health.

Home urine tests have been around for a while now, although they are usually for detecting urinary tract infections, diabetics, drug screening, etc. Some companies, however, are beginning to focus simply on health monitoring, as a way of advising on dietary or lifestyle habits, and I thought it would be interesting to try one and opted for Vivoo, which arrived at home via a small folder with instructions and four test strips.

It’s easy to use: download the app, fill in a few basic health details (date of birth, weight, height, gender, usual activity level, alcohol or tobacco consumption, chronic diseases and eating habits) and a goal (eat healthy, lose or gain weight, diet management, know more about my body…), we simply extract the test strip from its case, and after discarding the first stream of urine, we can either directly impregnate it by urinating on it, or collect some urine in a jar and briefly insert the strip in it. When all the squares are properly impregnated, the…