Deepinder Goyal tests new brain-flow wearable; says, ‘Temple is going to be a small, cute company, if at all’

Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal is exploring a new venture in wearable technology. According to media reports, he is considering launching a company called Temple that will focus on health monitoring devices.

Temple’s website only carries a short message that reads “Coming Soon” along with the line “The future of health starts where no one’s looking. Inside your brain.”

Interest around the new project intensified last week after Goyal attended an event hosted by Feeding India, the non profit supported by Eternal.

Photos from the event showed him standing with Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa while wearing a small device attached to the right side of his face near the temple area. The image went viral and sparked speculation about the nature of the device.

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A few days later, Continue Research, Goyal’s biological research initiative, released its first scientific hypothesis called Gravity Ageing. The idea suggests that gravity reduces blood flow to the brain when a person stands or sits, which over decades could contribute to ageing.

Commenting on a LinkedIn post, Goyal said that Continue Research had to build an experimental device to calculate brain flow in real time. He confirmed that the device in the viral photo was the same one and that he had been using it for a year.

In his LinkedIn comments, Goyal said, “Brain Flow is already well accepted as a biomarker for ageing, longevity as well as cognition. So this device is useful and relevant even if the Gravity Ageing Hypothesis turns out to be wrong.” He also said that Temple would be a “small, cute company, if at all” and “nothing” compared to Eternal.

Continue Research’s hypothesis centres on Cerebral Blood Flow and argues that gravity can reduce brain blood flow by up to 17 percent in upright posture. To counter this effect, the team suggests that inversions, where the head is below the heart, can help restore and maintain healthy blood flow. The hypothesis says passive inversions may work better than active forms such as yoga.

Last month, Goyal announced a fund of $25 million for Continue Research, which he incubated as a personal initiative focused on health and wellness.

Around the same time, Goyal also addressed the attention around his device in a long post on social media. He wrote that research already shows the strong link between brain flow and age. He explained that the team’s tests using inversion tables for more than ten minutes a day over six weeks led to a seven percent rise in daily average brain flow. He said this may offset roughly ten years of age related decline.

The device he was photographed wearing has now been confirmed to measure brain flow.

Goyal said, “While conducting research on the Gravity Aging Hypothesis, we had to make an experimental device to calculate Brain Flow accurately, real time, and continuously. Been using it for a year, and I’ve been feeling that this could shape into an important wearable the world needs.”

He also addressed speculation that the Gravity Ageing Hypothesis was created to promote the Temple device. “Temple is going to be a small cute company, if at all. Nothing compared to Eternal,” he said.

“We didn’t cook up the Gravity Aging Hypothesis to sell Temple. Not my game to lose the trust our customers have in me over a marketing gimmick.”