Pg. 71 "As humans, we're hardwired to be optimists bout the state of our bodies. We assume we're relatively healthy, that the 30 trillion cells in our bodies are behaving just as they should, that our organs, tissues, hormones, and neural signals are going about the critical business of keeping us alive and well."
Pg. 72 "A 2003 report from the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., estimated that the time between discovery to adoption in clinical care can average seventeen years."
Pg. 73 "Tests to measure hormone levels and their impact on your life are essential to maintain strength along with optimal levels of mental and physical performance."
Pg. 74 "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to arm themselves with information and those who find knowledge scary. I have to admit, I used to fall into the second category. What if they find something small and I overreact, making a mountain out of a medical molehill? But as I became more educated and aware of the importance of early detection, I wound up discovering issues that would have been so much easier to address had I only known about them earlier. I became an information warrior. I'm someone who feels that the more I know, the better equipped I am to make the very best decisions based on hard evidence, not speculation."
Pg. 75 "If there's one thing that's unassailable when it comes to your health, it's that ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is pain. Ignorance is disease. And ignorance can lead to unnecessary avoidable procedures and even death."
Pg. 76 "When we arrived at the Fountain Life center in Naples, Florida, Dr. Kapp showed us charts and graphics that illustrated exactly how AI can take a regular CT scan and amplify it so you can actually look through every artery and distinguish between calcified cholesterol plaques, which are stable, unlikely to rupture and therefore safe, and noncalcified, or soft, unstable, plaques which can mean bad news. You get a score that indicates exactly where you stand so you can know what changes you should make in terms of diet, exercise, and medication to decrease your risk of heart disease. Cardiovascular science has never had any test this accurate."
Pg. 78 "One of the greatest benefits of utilizing these CCTA scans created by a New York-based company called Cleerly is that their sophisticated technology deciphers scans and makes them far more accurate and useful. Incredibly, Cleerly can distinguish between safe and dangerous plaques before a heart attack ever occurs."
Pg. 80 "In 2020, the American Cancer Society predicted that the disease would claim the lives of more than 600,000 people. That's 1600 people a day in this country alone. The good news? Deaths from cancer are actually falling. In fact, from 2014 to 2018, the overall cancer death rates decreased by about 2.1 percent per year for women and 2.3 percent per year for men. Since 1991, when deaths from cancer were at their peak rates, nearly 3 million deaths have been avoided."
Pg. 81 "GRAIL arrived on the scene in the spring of 2021, and Fountain Life is one of the first places to offer this incredible test, which is part of its baseline testing for all members. Before GRAIL, it was possible to screen for just a few types of cancer, like breast, colon, cervical, prostate, and lung cancers. Prior to the GRAIL, we've been able to detect only 20 percent of cancers, which means that four of five cancers were undetected until they had grown and started causing trouble. Now as GRAIL is hitting the market, it has the potential to completely overhaul the field of cancer diagnostics.
While GRAIL can search for more than 50 different types of cancer with a simple blood test, like any test it isn't perfect. It can't detect every cancer type, especially brain or kidney cancer. But that's where the use of full-body MRI comes in. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is a powerful type of imaging that uses magnets, not radiation, to form high-resolution internal images of your body, imagery that can find early solid cancers wherever they are lurking. Together, GRAIL and MRI full-body imaging can detect a complete spectrum of cancer at very early stages. And you know what that means, right? Early detection equals early treatment, less invasive treatments, and better survival rates overall."
Pg. 83 "According to the National Cancer Institute, there's an 89 percent chance of survival for early stage detection compared to a 21 percent chance of survival with late-stage detection."
"At any given point in time, would you believe that 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to the disease?"
Pg. 84 "Rather than wonder about what lay ahead, he decided to take advantage of technology available at Fountain Life to perform sophisticated AI mapping of an MRI image of his brain. This technology, from a company called Combinostics, uses AI to analyze brain tissue. It measures 132 areas of the brain and applies AI to determine whether you show signs of an Alzheimer's brain or a pre-Alzheimer's brain, as well as Parkinson's disease. At the same time, it can also measure the volume of various parts of your brain, whether they are increasing or decreasing and whether you have any vascular disease in your brain."
Pg. 86 "As you get older, your hormone levels start to fluctuate and decrease. Typically between the ages of 40 and 50--sometimes as early as the mid-30s--the amount of hormones coursing through your body starts to drop off. For some individuals, the levels rapidly drop off a cliff, and for some that begins as early as 35. That matters because hormones are a primary driver of energy, vitality, strength, beauty, power, and focus."
Pg. 87 "One of the most overlooked aspects of a traditional physical health checkup is a person's hormonal profile. More attention is paid to blood sugar, cholesterol, hemoglobin, and kidney function than to perhaps the most critical part of anyone's health profile: sex hormones. Sex hormones are the messengers that not only govern sexual health but also play a critical role in many physiologic functions, including blood sugar regulation, inflammation, neurological status, cardiac health, muscle health, and bone metabolism."
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Pg. 72 "A 2003 report from the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., estimated that the time between discovery to adoption in clinical care can average seventeen years."
Pg. 73 "Tests to measure hormone levels and their impact on your life are essential to maintain strength along with optimal levels of mental and physical performance."
Pg. 74 "There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to arm themselves with information and those who find knowledge scary. I have to admit, I used to fall into the second category. What if they find something small and I overreact, making a mountain out of a medical molehill? But as I became more educated and aware of the importance of early detection, I wound up discovering issues that would have been so much easier to address had I only known about them earlier. I became an information warrior. I'm someone who feels that the more I know, the better equipped I am to make the very best decisions based on hard evidence, not speculation."
Pg. 75 "If there's one thing that's unassailable when it comes to your health, it's that ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is pain. Ignorance is disease. And ignorance can lead to unnecessary avoidable procedures and even death."
Pg. 76 "When we arrived at the Fountain Life center in Naples, Florida, Dr. Kapp showed us charts and graphics that illustrated exactly how AI can take a regular CT scan and amplify it so you can actually look through every artery and distinguish between calcified cholesterol plaques, which are stable, unlikely to rupture and therefore safe, and noncalcified, or soft, unstable, plaques which can mean bad news. You get a score that indicates exactly where you stand so you can know what changes you should make in terms of diet, exercise, and medication to decrease your risk of heart disease. Cardiovascular science has never had any test this accurate."
Pg. 78 "One of the greatest benefits of utilizing these CCTA scans created by a New York-based company called Cleerly is that their sophisticated technology deciphers scans and makes them far more accurate and useful. Incredibly, Cleerly can distinguish between safe and dangerous plaques before a heart attack ever occurs."
Pg. 80 "In 2020, the American Cancer Society predicted that the disease would claim the lives of more than 600,000 people. That's 1600 people a day in this country alone. The good news? Deaths from cancer are actually falling. In fact, from 2014 to 2018, the overall cancer death rates decreased by about 2.1 percent per year for women and 2.3 percent per year for men. Since 1991, when deaths from cancer were at their peak rates, nearly 3 million deaths have been avoided."
Pg. 81 "GRAIL arrived on the scene in the spring of 2021, and Fountain Life is one of the first places to offer this incredible test, which is part of its baseline testing for all members. Before GRAIL, it was possible to screen for just a few types of cancer, like breast, colon, cervical, prostate, and lung cancers. Prior to the GRAIL, we've been able to detect only 20 percent of cancers, which means that four of five cancers were undetected until they had grown and started causing trouble. Now as GRAIL is hitting the market, it has the potential to completely overhaul the field of cancer diagnostics.
While GRAIL can search for more than 50 different types of cancer with a simple blood test, like any test it isn't perfect. It can't detect every cancer type, especially brain or kidney cancer. But that's where the use of full-body MRI comes in. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is a powerful type of imaging that uses magnets, not radiation, to form high-resolution internal images of your body, imagery that can find early solid cancers wherever they are lurking. Together, GRAIL and MRI full-body imaging can detect a complete spectrum of cancer at very early stages. And you know what that means, right? Early detection equals early treatment, less invasive treatments, and better survival rates overall."
Pg. 83 "According to the National Cancer Institute, there's an 89 percent chance of survival for early stage detection compared to a 21 percent chance of survival with late-stage detection."
"At any given point in time, would you believe that 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to the disease?"
Pg. 84 "Rather than wonder about what lay ahead, he decided to take advantage of technology available at Fountain Life to perform sophisticated AI mapping of an MRI image of his brain. This technology, from a company called Combinostics, uses AI to analyze brain tissue. It measures 132 areas of the brain and applies AI to determine whether you show signs of an Alzheimer's brain or a pre-Alzheimer's brain, as well as Parkinson's disease. At the same time, it can also measure the volume of various parts of your brain, whether they are increasing or decreasing and whether you have any vascular disease in your brain."
Pg. 86 "As you get older, your hormone levels start to fluctuate and decrease. Typically between the ages of 40 and 50--sometimes as early as the mid-30s--the amount of hormones coursing through your body starts to drop off. For some individuals, the levels rapidly drop off a cliff, and for some that begins as early as 35. That matters because hormones are a primary driver of energy, vitality, strength, beauty, power, and focus."
Pg. 87 "One of the most overlooked aspects of a traditional physical health checkup is a person's hormonal profile. More attention is paid to blood sugar, cholesterol, hemoglobin, and kidney function than to perhaps the most critical part of anyone's health profile: sex hormones. Sex hormones are the messengers that not only govern sexual health but also play a critical role in many physiologic functions, including blood sugar regulation, inflammation, neurological status, cardiac health, muscle health, and bone metabolism."
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- A basic assessment of male hormonal health should include total testosterone, free testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), estradiol (E2), sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA).
- A basic assessment of female hormonal health should include estradiol (E2), progesterone, testosterone, free testosterone, SHBG, and DHEA, at a minimum. It would also be helpful to assess other estrogen metabolites as well.
Pg. 91 "It's really important for you to get a toxic metals test. It's no big deal--just a simple blood test. The company that detected my mercury poisoning is called Quicksilver Scientific. Thankfully, its founder and CEO, Christopher Shade, Ph.D., put me on a protocol that gradually detoxified my body. If I hadn't been tested and gone on this mercury detox program, I probably wouldn't be alive today. In fact, I'd say roughly one in three people whom I recommend for testing have some form of toxic metal accumulation. You need to get it out of your system, so take it from me and get the simple blood test.
Pg. 92 A Quick Bonus: 5 more simple tests that can have a dramatic impact on your life
1. Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan to measure bone density and detect osteoporosis.
2. Complete DNA analysis, sequencing of your genome.
3. Microbiome analysis
4. Vital Health skin analysis using AI facial imaging plus analysis to evaluate the health and age of your skin.
5. What's your TruAge? This simple test is the #1 biomarker for healthsspan and lifespan.