Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

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24 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A podcast conversation (host Josh Trent and another speaker) arguing that making blood testing inexpensive and available for home use could shift care from reactive to proactive, provide longitudinal data for clinicians, and potentially increase healthspan while lowering cost-driven inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system. The speakers propose widespread home devices for routine blood monitoring and note that more frequent data makes diagnosis and management easier.

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Fundamentally, if you could cut the cost of blood testing, make it very small, make it usable in the home, what impact could that have? Rather than saving time for a doctor, which is important, can we increase health span for everybody?
Most people that have the traditional insurance, Western medicine paradigm, the lens is so fixed, if you need blood tests, you go to the doctor.
Let's put a device in every home in America. Rather than making blood testing reactive where, okay, I have terrible symptoms now I'm going to get a bunch of blood work and hopefully they'll figure something out. It's making it proactive where people are getting much more blood tests and that's the core cornerstone of their whole health journey. It helps to do the blood test because then you know what to work on. Medicine is getting better, but it's too expensive for most people. Having more data makes it easier. If you give a doctor lots of data, here's five years worth of blood tests. Why am I feeling bad? The chances that they're going to give you a good answer quickly are very high.
What gets measured gets managed.
Life expectancy is not increasing while cost is increasing in the standard medical system, and that is not true in Europe.