We recently connected with Eric Klos and have shared our conversation below.

Eric, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

My inspiration for DailyBreath through the years has been a story published on the Internet in the summer of 2017 about a young 15-year-old girl, Diamond. The article was titled, “Doctors can’t pinpoint what triggered 15-year old’s asthma attack now in ICU.”

People have asked me for the source of my passion for DailyBreath. There’s a line in the Patriot Games, where Jack Ryan says, “It just made me mad.” Frankly, that was my reaction to the headline. Why are doctors trying to pinpoint what triggered a debilitating asthma attack after the fact? Why aren’t we tracking the environmental triggers in the air and helping the vulnerable understand the triggers that impact their symptoms to avoid experiencing symptoms in the future that often lead to severe respiratory distress?

This idea of pinpointing triggers as associated with symptoms was the inspiration for the development of the DailyBreath Risk Index, a personalized approach to environmental health, as well as pins in the user interface to identify when acute symptoms were recorded, the locations of where those symptoms occurred. By tracking the location of where symptoms occur, individually and collectively, users have another risk framework for understanding vulnerability to the air they breathe in that location. The symptoms are a proxy for potentially high pollen presence and/or poor air quality.

At the time, Diamond went into respiratory distress and stopped breathing for 20 minutes and was rushed to the ICU.
Her life has never been the same since. I was saddened to learn recently that Diamond passed away in December 2024 at 23, a premature death as a result of potentially preventable asthma attack. So, for all the Diamonds, our mission is to help everyone breathe easier one symptom at a time.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was prompted to explore environmental health as a discipline after my sister, who has rheumatoid arthritis mentioned the weather impacts on her condition and how it would be nice if she were able to track on an app the weather changes that may be impacting her arthritis. While i noted the weather and environmental impacts on arthritis and joint pain, and migraines, and headaches, it was clear in my research that respiratory health and cardiovascular health were the most impacted by environmental triggers like pollution and pollen and those were significant affected by weather conditions. Those impacts were extremely negative health outcomes for people that were potentially preventable.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Ironically, I received an investment almost a month before COVID hit. It permitted me to develop the first GTM version of DailyBreath in 2020, even including a COVID prompt in the Symptom Tracker. But they were lean years and it was difficult to generate business growth.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Pivoting from a specific condition discipline to a broad approach the air you breathe and your health.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://urlgeni.us/dailybreathapp
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• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dailybreathapp
• Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/dailybreathapp
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• Other: Download ‘DailyBreath’ on the App Store and Google Play Store.

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