PolarGuard monitors sleep, heart rate variability, and activity continuously — alerting your care team before a mood episode fully develops.
Bipolar disorder is episodic — but psychiatric care is appointment-based. Clinicians have no visibility into what happens between visits. By the time a patient arrives in crisis, the window to intervene has already closed.
The physiological warning signs are there days before an episode develops. Sleep shortens. HRV drops. Activity shifts. No one is watching.
PolarGuard reads from Apple Watch via HealthKit, builds a personal baseline over 30 days, then monitors deviations continuously — no manual logging required.
I built PolarGuard because I have bipolar disorder and I know what it feels like to lose weeks of your life to an episode that could have been caught earlier. The physiological signals were there — in my sleep, my HRV, my activity. No one was watching.
PolarGuard is my attempt to give patients and clinicians the early warning system that doesn't exist yet. It's a graduate research project at Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business, developed with clinical research guidance and built on published evidence in bipolar prodromal signal detection.
Whether you're a clinician, researcher, patient, or potential partner — we'd love to hear from you.