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Vela Health

Vela Health

Pre-launch · Early access

Understand your body from the inside out.

See, learn, and improve what’s actually driving your psoriasis, eczema or acne.

See why people trust Vela
Chronic skin first Peer-reviewed sources, cited We don’t sell your data · not HIPAA

Privacy promise

Honest about your data.

  • We don’t sell your data or use it for ads.
  • We don’t train AI on your health information.
  • AI features send your question to our providers only to answer it.
  • Vela is a wellness product, not a medical record or HIPAA covered entity. Privacy Promise · Privacy Notice · Security

How it works

Not just tracking. Understanding.

Check in

Skin, stress, and anything different. About a minute. Your watch fills in sleep, and photos or labs are optional.

See your patterns

What sets off your flares, how long after, and what isn’t a trigger at all.

Learn why

Every finding explains what’s happening in your body, with the research behind it. Ask Vela anything.

Imagine your own health study, always running.
Sleep, stress and food, checked against your skin every day.

Our guides cite research from

  • NEJM
  • JAMA
  • The Lancet
  • NIH
  • CDC
  • World Health Organization
Read the research

Product preview

A look inside Vela Health

A quick check-in, what you already have, your patterns, and what they mean for your body.

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Check in

Skin, stress, and anything different. Your watch fills in sleep.

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Add what you have

Wearable sleep, a weekly skin photo, and blood work if you have it. All optional.

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See your pattern

What sets off your flares, and how long after.

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Learn as you go

Why it happens, what helped people with your patterns, and how strong the proof is.

Design preview with sample data. Early access opens soon.

Your Learn page · sample

What may help your psoriasis

Tailored to a sample person’s check-ins, ranked by how well it fits them and how strong the proof is. Tap any number to read the study.

Plaque psoriasis · elbows Stress → flare in ~48h Poor sleep → ~24h Sugar → ~72h Vitamin D 28 ng/mL

Why your flares happen

Psoriasis is an immune condition, not a hygiene problem. Immune messengers called IL-23 and IL-17 tell skin cells to grow in days instead of weeks, so they pile up as raised, scaly plaques1.

Your check-ins show flares about 2 days after high-stress days. Stress is a known trigger1, but a review of 39 studies found no convincing proof it causes flares for everyone2. That’s why Vela tests it on your skin instead of assuming.

Picked for your patterns

Mindfulness during light therapy

Randomized trial · 37 people
Why it fits you
Stress is your strongest pattern, showing up in your skin about 48 hours later. This targets it directly and costs nothing.
What they did
People getting light therapy listened to guided meditation audio during each session.
What happened
Their skin cleared significantly faster than people who had light therapy alone.3

Mediterranean-style eating

Large observational study · 3,557 people
Why it fits you
Sugary days show up in your skin about 3 days later. This swaps sweets for fruit, beans, fish and olive oil without cutting whole food groups.
What they did
Researchers compared how closely people with psoriasis ate a Mediterranean diet.
What happened
People who ate this way more closely were less likely to have severe psoriasis. It shows a link, not cause and effect.4

Your labs

Vitamin D · 28 ng/mL

Meta-analysis

Your level is low-normal. A review of trials couldn’t confirm that vitamin D pills improve psoriasis skin5. Ask your clinician whether your level needs treating for your overall health.

Your next step

10 minutes of guided mindfulness audio on high-stress evenings, for 2 weeks. Vela checks your skin 2 days later, when your flares usually show up, and tells you if it helped.

Strong evidence, if it applies to you

Lose weight, if you carry extra

Expert guideline
What happened
The National Psoriasis Foundation’s strongest diet advice is a lower-calorie diet for people with psoriasis who are overweight.6
Applies to you if
You’re carrying extra weight. Vela doesn’t know yet, so this stays optional.

Diet plus exercise

Randomized trial · 303 people
What happened
Overweight adults on psoriasis medication followed a 20-week eating plan with exercise. Their scores dropped by about half (48%), versus 26% with advice alone.7
Applies to you if
You’re overweight. Exercise also helps with stress, your top trigger.

Gluten-free

Clinical study · 33 people
What happened
People with gluten antibodies improved significantly after 3 months gluten-free. People without the antibodies didn’t.8
Applies to you if
A blood test shows gluten sensitivity. Ask your clinician before cutting gluten.

Very-low-calorie start, then Mediterranean eating

Clinical trial · 37 people
What happened
36 of 37 overweight adults improved by at least half in 10 weeks. There was no comparison group.9
Applies to you if
A clinician supervises it. Don’t try a very-low-calorie diet on your own.

Real stories from medical journals

Cleared after going gluten-free

Case report

A person with coeliac disease whose psoriasis hadn’t responded to the usual treatments saw their skin clear quickly on a gluten-free diet10.

Treatment worked again after weight loss

Case report

A woman in her 40s whose biologic medication had stopped working responded to it again after 4 weeks of a medically supervised very-low-calorie diet11.

One person’s story isn’t proof it will work for you. In the app, Vela also shows stories from people with a similar pattern, each labeled by how strong it is.

What the research doesn’t show yet

Most single foods and supplements have only low-quality evidence so far6. Vela tests the ones you’re curious about on your own skin.

Sources

  1. PsoriasisReview · The Lancet · 2021
  2. Psychological stress and psoriasis: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysis · British Journal of Dermatology · 2018
  3. Mindfulness meditation and rates of skin clearing in psoriasis during phototherapyRandomized trial · Psychosomatic Medicine · 1998
  4. Mediterranean diet and severity of psoriasis: the NutriNet-Santé cohortObservational study · JAMA Dermatology · 2018
  5. Oral vitamin D supplementation and psoriasis severity: a meta-analysis of randomized trialsMeta-analysis · Nutrition · 2021
  6. Dietary recommendations for adults with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis from the National Psoriasis FoundationGuideline and systematic review · JAMA Dermatology · 2018
  7. Diet and physical exercise in psoriasis: a randomized controlled trialRandomized trial · British Journal of Dermatology · 2014
  8. Psoriasis patients with antibodies to gliadin can be improved by a gluten-free dietClinical study · British Journal of Dermatology · 2000
  9. Weight-loss program with a ketogenic start for chronic plaque psoriasisClinical trial · Nutrition · 2020
  10. Rapid regression of psoriasis in a coeliac patient after gluten-free dietCase report · Digestion · 2003
  11. Very low-calorie ketogenic diet may restore response to systemic therapy in relapsing psoriasisCase report · Obesity Research & Clinical Practice · 2016

A sample of Vela Learn for a sample person. Education, not medical advice. Talk to your clinician before changing your diet or treatment.

See how patterns work

Why triggers are so hard to catch

Most triggers show up in your skin one to three days later, which is why they’re so hard to catch on your own. Pick a trigger in this sample month to see how Vela tests it and explains why.

Sample month · 0 is clear, 10 is your worst

Sample data. Vela starts testing links like these after about 14 days of check-ins.

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“Your body can heal itself if given the right environment.”

The philosophy that shaped Vela

Built by someone who healed her psoriasis. Educational guidance with cited sources.

Early access

What you get in early access

  • Learn why, not just whatEvery finding explains what’s happening in your body. Ask Vela anything, or read short guides, with every source linked.
  • Your personal triggersVela tests stress, food, sleep and more against your skin, including the 1 to 3 day delay, and tells you what isn’t a trigger too.
  • A check-in under a minuteSkin, stress, and anything different. Your watch fills in sleep.
  • One small experiment at a timeEvery pattern comes with something to try next, like a wind-down on high-stress evenings.
  • Weekly skin photosSame spot, side by side, so you can see progress that’s easy to miss. Photos stay on your device.
  • Your data, yours to keepDownload your full history of check-ins and patterns anytime.
  • Blood work, made readableOptional. Upload labs to learn your numbers and see them next to how you feel.
  • Habits built around youStrength, food, sleep and stress suggestions that fit your life. You’re capable, not broken.

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The difference

Why Vela is different

Generic health apps

Charts and streaks, but no explanation of why.

Typical doctor visits

A snapshot of one day, not the weeks behind it.

AI chatbots

Confident answers with no sources, and no sense of what’s right for you.

Vela

Teaches you how your skin works and why your flares happen, with every claim cited from sources like the American Academy of Dermatology. Then tests the gentlest changes on your skin.

The shift

Calming a flare isn’t the same as finding its cause.

Your body isn’t broken

Flares are signals, not bad luck. Many trace back to daily habits you can change.

Your triggers are yours

What clears one person’s skin does nothing for the next. Your own check-ins show what’s true for you.

Research, tested on you

We start with peer-reviewed sources we can point to, then check them against your own check-ins. Real results matter more than what a study says.

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Free to start. Founding members lock in $79/year for life, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Claim a spot.

Transparency

Vela does

  • Help you log meals, outdoor light, sleep, and flares in under a minute
  • Read blood work you upload, if you have it, and connect it to what your body is doing
  • Suggest evidence-informed habits and lifestyle changes you can actually try
  • Show patterns so you see what helps your body, and bring you back to the basics humans have relied on for thousands of years: real food instead of processed food, sunlight, sleep, and movement

Vela doesn’t

  • Diagnose, prescribe, or replace your clinician
  • Tell you to stop prescribed medications
  • Handle emergencies. Get urgent care when needed