Know Your Numbers: How Personalized Testing Can Optimize Your Health And Reverse Disease with Pranitha Patil

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This proactive approach represents the future of your healthcare. I
co-founded Function Health alongside Pranitha Patil and others. I
was excited to sit down with her for this episode. Our mission is
to empower people to live 100 healthy years. In our conversation,
we dive deep into the importance of individualized health
information, exploring topics like comprehensive cardiovascular,
autoimmunity, thyroid testing, and much more. Pranitha made a bold
move, leaving Harvard University's graduate school early to build
Function Health. Her extensive background at Accenture saw her
working closely with the largest hospital systems and health
insurance providers, where she witnessed the problems with
healthcare from the inside. More personally, Pranitha's own health
challenges inspired her to prioritize giving people the power to
own their health. Function is the first-ever membership offering
access to over 100+ lab tests. It provides personalized insights
from globally renowned doctors based on your results. You can join
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from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
Pranitha’s personal health journey (3:46 / 1:06) Optimizing your
health with personalized data (8:30 / 5:58) Why normal biomarkers
are not necessarily optimal (22:46 / 20:14) Comprehensive
cardiovascular testing (32:50 / 29:38) Comprehensive thyroid
testing (44:57 / 41:45) The prevalence of autoimmune disease and
related testing (49:31 / 46:19) Women’s and men’s health testing at
every stage of life (52:15 / 49:03) How I manage stress (59:04 /
56:29) Testing to assess immune and pancreatic function (1:01:51 /
58:39) Nutritional, liver, kidney, and other testing offered by
Function Health (1:03:44 / 1:00:30) Correction: This episode
mentions a book by Drs. Leroy Hood and Nathan Price. The title of
that book is The Age of Scientific Wellness.