Dr. Tiffany Di Pietro, a cardiologist, used genetic testing through 10X Health to discover she had elevated risk for multiple sclerosis from low vitamin D. A $1,000 DNA test generates a 400-page report with personalized supplements. Grant Cardone says his genetic insights helped him quit medication and reach peak fitness at 67.
Biohacking is the practice of using science, technology, and lifestyle to change and optimize your physical and mental performance. Now, for some, it's the fountain of youth. For others, it's a way to prevent disease and actually live longer. But can biohacking really work, and will it find a way to make you healthier? Here's what I found.
So we want to be able to find diseases before they happen. It's preventive medicine.
Dr. Tiffany Di Pietro is a quadruple-certified cardiologist who personally wanted to see how how genetic testing could uncover ways for her to live longer and healthier.
So it's, it's a deeper dive, not just what's currently happening now, what might actually happen to you in the future.
And she's not alone. The fandomonium around the 10X brand is palpable. At its core is founder Grant Cardone. A large part of his business centers on 10X Health, which is headquartered in Aventura, specializing in genetic testing.
There's tens of millions of people in America alone that are concerned about their health.
Cardone's company offers a genetic test that analyzes your DNA. He says the findings are put into a personalized 400-page book filled with specific actionable ways to prevent your predisposed conditions and optimize your health.
Everybody has impairments, okay? Where I'm deficient, okay? I need more iron, more calcium, more selenium, more zinc. So then we take this book and the data here, and then we go to a lab and we precision manufacture the exact supplements I need.
Dr. Di Pietro took a similar DNA test with a company called Sequencing.com. Many of these genetic tests cost around $1,000 or more, but Dr. Di Pietro says you only need to do it once because your genes never change.
I actually have one thing here. I have a risk of multiple sclerosis due to low vitamin D levels. So only if my vitamin D levels remain consistently low. So guess what I do now? I take a vitamin D supplement.
This long list of results can be unnerving, which is why Dr. Di Pietro urges people to review them with their doctor. Back at the 10x Health lab, nurse practitioner Kelly Vasquez agrees. We are all licensed, but if you do have a chronic condition, we also recommend that you see your PCP. In fact, your primary care physician, or PCP, is key to determining if the supplements recommended in your genetic test will adversely affect any medications you might be taking.
If a doctor doesn't know all the supplements you're taking, we cannot make adequate recommendations for other medications as well.
As for Cardone, he says his genetic results got him off of medication and into the best shape of his life at 67 years old. Is this gonna make you live longer?
Uh, I hope so. You know, if you look, I'm not looking to live longer, I'm looking to live with more quality. I think this whole thing about how long you live, I don't want to live until I'm 110 if I'm sick for the last 30 years.
Which is a good point, right? So these genetic tests can scan for a whole host of different issues that include Alzheimer's, multiple forms of cancer, even sudden cardiac death, and many, many more. So there's a lot of benefit to them. A lot of folks are wondering, is it truly the key to helping them live longer?
And you really have to consider if you want that information.
Well, and that's what the doctor had told me, Dr. Di Pietro. She said, you know what, you have to be prepared for the information that you get because it can be a little unnerving, as I mentioned, and that's why they suggest that once you get this information, sit down with your doctor and talk about it.
Fascinating.
Exactly.
Fascinating.
