Before Cycla was an app, it was a woman sitting in a doctor’s office hearing four letters that rearranged her life: PCOS. Her cycles had gone silent for months. Her skin would not settle. And under every symptom sat a quieter fear, that the baby she longed for might never come.
The guidance she got was thin. Lose some weight, come back next year. So she stopped waiting and started listening to her own body. She walked after every meal, even for ten minutes, to keep her blood sugar steady. She let go of sugar and ultra-processed food and built her plate around anti-inflammatory meals. She learned the rhythm of her cycle instead of dreading it.
Nothing shifted overnight. But month after month the cycles came back. The inflammation softened. The lab numbers her doctor once frowned at began to move in the right direction. And one unremarkable morning, a test she had taken far too many times finally showed two lines.
That first night, watching her daughter breathe in the dark, she made a promise. No woman should have to piece this together alone at 2am, googling symptoms and second-guessing her body. Cycla is that promise, built into something you can keep in your pocket.
For the first time I understood my own body instead of just googling my symptoms at 2am.
The founder of Cycla