00:19:14 · Mark Hyman
[00:19:14] S2: Yeah. So 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, toxins, metabolic health, nutritional status, hormonal health, all these things are important to understand. And and depending on where you are in your life and what's going on with you, you may wanna look at different things. For example, if you're getting older or you have Alzheimer's in your family, there is 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. Know, if you're 20, you're probably not gonna do this. But as you get older, there's something called the, Galleri test, which is a multi cancer detection test to look at over 50 different cancers. It's not perfect, but it's better than most things we have to really screen for cancer. You know, if you're concerned about your tox exposure, might wanna 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, there's... You can do a viral panel to see what's going on with your with your immune system. If wanna 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 wanna add on stuff, you can do extended hormone panels and see, you know, other things that 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 wanna know extra nutrients that we may not be testing with the first screen, like if you wanna look at zinc or maybe an extended vitamin mineral panel looks at selenium and molybdenum or moniodide and cooked u 10 and chromium, you can do that. So...
00:21:16 · Mark Hyman, Daisy Wolf
And and depending on where you're where you're interested in, if you like just want the basics or if you wanna full, like, go all in, I wanna do everything, it's available for you. And then, of course, you can get your your EzraScan, which is a a deep look at total body MRI and and gives you a real sense of risks and different conditions, looks like hundreds of different diseases and allows you to be proactive about it. And we've saved so many lives on this. I mean, I just got an ad text from a friend of mine who sent... The guy who works for him did the function panel and saw he had, you know, a pretty bad cardiovascular risk profile he didn't even know about. He went and got checked out and ended up needing a a bypass immediately. So, you we're know, seeing people like that or people who have cancer is the opinion they had and saves their life. So hopefully that, you know, and people can get a sense of what they wanna look at. [00:22:05] S1: Amazing. Okay. Talk to me about like kind of your environment. Like how much are you thinking about microplastics, toxins, household products, skincare
00:22:05 · Daisy Wolf, Mark Hyman
[00:22:05] S1: Amazing. Okay. Talk to me about like kind of your environment. Like how much are you thinking about microplastics, toxins, household products, skincare [00:22:16] S2: products? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a great question. So I'm on the board of a group called the Environmental Working Group, and that is sort of a research and lobby organization that has done a lot of work to help identify what are the removable sources of toxins in our environment. And at ewg.org, and a lot of the free resources are there, but they have great resources, for example, on food. What are the dirty dozen foods that you never want to eat if they're not organic? Like strawberries, you should never have if they're organic, but you're have a banana or an avocado or whatever. It doesn't matter. So it gives you a list of the dirty dozen, clean 15. So you don't have to shop only organic. If you want to do a clean 15, there's very low pesticides on those, for example. [00:22:58] S1: And it's the skin or not is kind of the thing that matters.
00:23:02 · Mark Hyman
[00:23:02] S2: Yeah. Yeah. It's a little more than that. But... Yeah. Basically. Yeah. And then and then there's, you know, how how to choose the right fish that has the lowest mercury, how to choose the right meat that's the safest for you in the planet. So they have real good guys on that. And then they have a skin deep database, which is very sensitive, where you can literally scan or put in your product. They have an app for it. So any skin care products, lotions, creams, shampoos, you know, makeup, whatever, with a lot of toxins in the skincare products. So I really recommend people doing that. They also have household cleaning products. You know, what are the what are the brands that are... You know, if it has a skull and crossbows on it, you know, and you have to lock it away from your kids. You probably don't want to use skin in your house. Right? So I think, you know, I'm really pretty strict about household cleaners and detergents and so forth. So that's that's again another great resource. So you build these into your automatic things. I just have those products in the house. I don't I don't... I I... My skincare products are all from brands that are are clean and good. So I I don't have to worry about it because I just reduce my exposure. Then I have a reverse osmosis filter in my kitchen where I pick my drinking water, and I have a air filter in my bedroom and a few of the key rooms I spend a lot of time. And those are the ways I I minimize my exposures. You can't do it impossible to do a 100%. And I'm just like... You know, I... My joke is if humans were food, we wouldn't be safe to eat because we're so full of environmental toxins that we we accumulate them. We're on the top of the food chain. So, you know, it's it's really unfortunate. But but you can minimize your exposures and reduce your risks. Microplastics is another big one. I mean, to drink out a water bottle of water, you'll have a steel bottle and not not drinking out a plastic.
00:24:35 · Daisy Wolf
[00:24:35] S1: You've always been kind of on the cutting edge. How do you like kind of decide where to draw the line between what's clinically proven, what's emerging, what your gut and you is right? Yeah. Really pertains to what you're doing, less so advice for others. I think you probably
00:24:51 · Mark Hyman
[00:24:51] S2: Yeah. I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean, that might mean we're more adventurous. But I would say that, you know, there has to be some scientific rationale or evidence for it. It has to have some safety profile to it, and it has to sort of not have no serious downsides or side effects. So if it's something in that category... And and the price is also an issue depending if you can afford it, but I'm lucky I can afford it, or I also get help for free because people give me stuff. So I'll dig it. So for example, one of the things that I've found really interesting is a lot of the work on platinaphoresis. So a lot of site... Science labs that are funded by a lot Silicon Valley billionaires are looking, for example, how do we how do we look at interventions that can help reduce the aging process or clean out old damaged proteins. So podopheresis is actually blood cleaning. It's kinda like a little bit of the Bryan Johnson where they kinda did the plasma chain with his kid and father, and that was a little strange. But there's... This is a medical technique that's been used for decades in hospitals for various issues, but it's being applied in a new way to help remove all the inflammatory damaged proteins, toxins from the blood. So I'll, pretty ample, do that, which is a little more on the edge. And that I find treatment of blood interesting, and the data's there. So I'm willing to try something like that.