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

Preventative health care is the solution! #biomarkers #bloodtest #prevention #healthspan

25 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker advocates for shifting blood testing from reactive, clinic-driven models to proactive, at-home testing. They describe a vision of placing accurate blood-testing devices into homes, offering a frequent "base panel" plus optional add-ons to monitor health continuously. The speaker argues prior barriers were technological (paper strips, basic glucose meters) and claims the home product will achieve central-lab-equivalent accuracy.

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We went after specifically at home blood testing. So instead of just improving what's going on now, making it a little bit cheaper or faster for the existing incumbents, we really wanted to go after. 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. Yes, it's making it proactive where people are getting much more blood tests and that's the cornerstone of their whole medical journey. The reason that the industry hasn't gone more in the direction of home testing historically is that the technology wasn't very good. You know, there's like paper strips and there are the glucose meters that work with like electrochemical sensors. Those are never used in central labs and they kind of know that it's impossible to get them to the point where they're as accurate as a central lab. What we launch for the home is going to have the same accuracy as a central lab. The way we view it is like this panel is the base panel. You should be getting it frequently and then we have add ons which basically allow you to look deeper at certain things.