Urban lifestyles are increasingly shaped by long commutes, demanding work schedules, late-night dinners and sedentary routines. While these habits may seem unavoidable, they can influence how people approach their overall wellness and daily recovery. EYVA, a touch-based metabolic wellness technology platform, is exploring how everyday routines relate to individual wellness patterns through technology, data and personalised insights.
With more than 30,000 users and millions of wellness check-ins, EYVA aims to help people better understand their bodies and recognise patterns associated with their daily habits. Its approach focuses on making proactive wellness more accessible, encouraging individuals to move beyond isolated health indicators and develop a more informed understanding of their routines.
In this interview, EYVA discusses the lifestyle patterns observed among urban professionals, the relationship between meal timing and daily activity, and the role of technology in supporting preventive wellness. The conversation also explores practical steps people can take to build more sustainable routines and EYVA’s long-term vision for expanding personalised wellness insights across India.
Q1. EYVA’s research highlights how late-night dinners, long commutes, caffeine consumption and limited post-meal activity affect urban wellness. What inspired you to investigate these everyday lifestyle patterns?
Ans. We often associate wellness with the bigger decisions we make, what we eat, how much we exercise, or how many hours we sleep. But what interested us was everything happening in between.
A late dinner after a long commute, another cup of coffee to get through the afternoon, or sitting down immediately after a meal. These are everyday habits that most of us don’t think twice about.
At EYVA, we’ve always believed that the body responds to everything we do, even the smallest routines. And yet, most people have very little visibility into how those choices influence their metabolic wellness.
With over 30,000 users and millions of wellness check-ins, we had an opportunity to explore these patterns at a larger scale.
The idea was never to tell people that their lifestyles are wrong. It was to help them understand the connection between what they do every day and how their bodies respond. Because awareness is often where meaningful change begins.
Q2. Your recent findings highlight late dinners among Hyderabad professionals and their potential impact on metabolic health and recovery. What are the most significant insights from this research?
Ans. One of the most interesting findings was how Hyderabad professionals reported having dinner after 10 p.m.
But what stood out wasn’t just the timing of dinner. It was how several everyday habits seemed to come together.
Long commutes often pushed meals later into the evening. Demanding work schedules left little room for movement after dinner. Caffeine consumption and inconsistent routines added another layer to the picture.
What this highlights is that metabolic wellness cannot be understood by looking at one habit in isolation. The timing of meals, activity, rest and recovery are all interconnected.
Someone could be exercising regularly and still have routines that aren’t necessarily supporting their overall wellness.
The larger insight is that being active and being metabolically well aren’t always the same thing.
And that’s an important conversation to have, particularly in cities like Hyderabad, where demanding lifestyles have become the norm.
Q3. How does EYVA help individuals understand their metabolic health beyond conventional indicators and recognise the impact of their daily habits?
Ans. For a long time, we’ve been conditioned to look at wellness through individual numbers. But a number alone doesn’t always tell us what is happening in the larger context of our lifestyle.
At EYVA, we’re trying to bring that context into the picture.
EYVA is the world’s first touch-based metabolic wellness device that brings together six wellness indicators through a simple 60-second check-in. These contribute to three broader dimensions of wellness — metabolic, cardiovascular and respiratory.
What makes this meaningful is how the experience becomes more personal over time.
As people continue their check-ins, EYVA helps them understand patterns in relation to their everyday habits, whether that’s their meals, sleep, activity or recovery.
For instance, someone might notice that their energy feels different on mornings following a late dinner, or that a change in their daily routine coincides with a different wellness pattern.
Rather than looking at isolated numbers, they begin to understand their own baseline and how their lifestyle relates to it.
We want people to move from simply knowing their numbers to understanding themselves better.
EYVA is not intended for medical diagnosis or treatment. It’s about making proactive wellness more accessible and helping people make more informed everyday choices.
Q4. With demanding work schedules and urban lifestyles making healthy routines difficult, what practical changes can people make to improve their metabolic wellness?
Ans. I think the first thing we need to move away from is the idea that better wellness requires a complete lifestyle transformation.
For someone working long hours, commuting through traffic and managing responsibilities at home, telling them to follow a perfect routine isn’t particularly helpful.
What matters is making small changes that are realistic enough to sustain.
For instance, moving dinner a little earlier when possible, taking a short walk after meals instead of sitting down immediately, being mindful of caffeine later in the day, or maintaining more consistent sleep and wake-up times.
Even something as simple as noticing how you feel after certain meals or on mornings following a late night can help you become more aware of your habits.
And importantly, what works for one person may not work the same way for another. Consistency matters far more than perfection.
At EYVA, that’s the philosophy we believe in. You don’t need to change everything overnight. You need to understand your patterns, identify what you can realistically improve, and build from there.
Q5. What is EYVA’s long-term vision for using technology and data-driven insights to improve preventive healthcare and metabolic wellness across India?
Ans. Our larger vision is to make proactive wellness a natural part of everyday life.
Today, most people pay attention to their bodies only when something feels wrong. We want to help change that relationship, from reacting to problems to becoming more aware of our wellness through everyday habits.
India presents a particularly interesting opportunity because our lifestyles are changing rapidly. Longer working hours, urbanisation, changing food habits and increasingly sedentary routines are all influencing how we live.
At the same time, technology has made it possible to understand ourselves in ways that weren’t accessible earlier.
But I believe the real opportunity isn’t in giving people more data. It’s in making that data meaningful.
We’ve spent years building EYVA around this philosophy, bringing together sensing technology, AI and personalisation in a simple, touch-based experience.
As we grow, we want to make these insights more accessible across households and different lifestyles, helping people develop a better understanding of their metabolic, cardiovascular and respiratory wellness.
Ultimately, our ambition is not to make people dependent on technology to tell them how to live.
It’s to give them enough understanding of their own bodies that they can make better decisions for themselves.
Building a More Proactive Approach to Everyday Wellness
EYVA’s approach reflects a broader shift towards making wellness more personalised and accessible. By encouraging individuals to observe their routines and understand their own patterns, the platform aims to make everyday wellness awareness a more consistent part of daily life.
For urban professionals balancing work, travel and personal responsibilities, small and sustainable adjustments may offer a more practical starting point than attempting a complete lifestyle overhaul. Earlier dinners when feasible, short walks after meals, mindful caffeine consumption and consistent sleep schedules are among the habits highlighted in the conversation.
As technology continues to evolve, EYVA’s long-term ambition is to use sensing technology, artificial intelligence and personalisation to help people make more informed decisions about their wellness. Its central message is that meaningful progress begins not with collecting more data, but with understanding what that data may mean in the context of everyday life.