Mark Hyman discusses health biomarkers (Part 2)
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Transcript
Wow. You know, additional blood tests, imaging, et cetera. Yeah, so, so we, we have a lot of depth in what we can do. And I think that the, you know, the basic membership includes over 110 biomarkers that look at almost every system in your body that are missed. Often your heart and cardiovascular system, your immune system, hormones, autoimmunity, um, toxins, metabolic health, nutritional status, hormonal health. All these things are, are important to understand. And, and depending on where you are, your life and what's going on with you, you may want to look at different things. For example, if you're getting older or you have Alzheimer's in your family, there's a, a really robust brain health panel. But I'll just look at some of the really newer biomarkers that are emerging around, almost like a blood test for Alzheimer's that you can take decades earlier and do something about. We also look at cancer screening. You know, if you're 20, you're probably not going to do this, but as you get older, there's something called the gallery test, which is a multi cancer detection test to look at over 50 different cancers. Not perfect, but it's better than most things. We have to really screen for cancer. You know, if you're concerned about your toxic exposure, you might want to do a deeper dive on pfas or forever chemicals and bpa. If you are concerned, you might have, you know, chronic fatigue or something like that. You can do a viral panel to see what's going on with your, with your immune system. If you want to see what's going on with your cardiovascular health, you can even do deeper dives on cardiovascular health and look at all kinds of subsets of different cholesterol molecules. Get pretty sophisticated. And then, you know, for hormones, we also do deep hormonal testing. So everybody gets a basic hormone panel for men and women. But if you want to add on stuff, you can do extended hormone panels and see, you know, other things that may be relevant for your health. And then the, the beautiful thing is that, is that you can, you know, get your twice your testing, but then you add on things. If you want extra, for example, if you want to know, extra nutrients that we may not be testing with the first screen. Like if you want to look at zinc or maybe an extended vitamin or mineral panel looks at selenium and molybdenum and iodine and CoQ10 and chromium, you can do that. So depending on where you're, where you're interested in, if you like, just want the basics or if you want a full, like, go all in, I want to do everything. It's available for you. And then, of course, you can get your, your Azure scan, which is a deep look at a total body MRI and gives you a real sense of risks and different conditions, looks at hundreds of different.