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We are focused on exploring health and disease through a scientific approach, emphasizing the importance of applying current knowledge to uncover more through systematic research.

The research community has vast technological resources, yet their complexity can overwhelm professionals and DIY health optimizers, leading to a fragmented and isolated understanding. While health technology often centers on disease diagnosis, Dr. Goodenowe focuses on applying these technologies to restore and optimize health. We aim to repurpose and develop technologies to understand health singularity, venturing into uncharted territories to identify and address specific needs in health research.

 

The technology required to perform our work falls into two broad categories – health measurement and health optimization.

Health Measurement

There are essentially three core components of health measurement: structural, biochemical, and functional.

However, all health measurements are ultimately related to various levels of function. Some of these functions you cannot see or feel (such as mitochondrial function), and some of these functions you can (such as walking).

 

Every day, common activities that we take for granted, like walking, are actually very complex. Our ability to perform these activities results from the collective effort of thousands of small activities working together. Ultimately, your health is built from the cellular level up. To optimize health, we need to understand what health is and identify deviations from it. Various technologies are used to create a database of variables for which normal, optimal, or dysfunctional ranges can be determined.

Many technologies and measurements are used, such as:

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS)
  • High-Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS)
  • Gas and Liquid Chromatography linked Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS)
  • Clinical Chemistry
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA)
  • Nerve Conductivity
  • Heart Rate Variability
  • Spirometry
  • Mobility
  • Balance
  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Strength
  • Fine Motor Skills

Health Optimization

The human body runs 24/7. It is the ultimate perpetual motion machine. In order to keep it running in accordance with its factory specifications, it needs four things:

1. It needs to be put to work.

The human body is not designed to be idle. It must maintain activity above a certain minimum threshold and below a certain maximum threshold. You can think about it like being self-lubricated – too little activity and it will seize up, too much activity and it will burn out. This part is fairly well done in the health optimization community.

2. It needs to be continually fed and maintained in accordance with its current operating environment.

The right nutrients are in the right proportions for your level and type of activity. This is not done very well in the health optimization community.

3. It needs to be inspected on a regular basis for acquired deviations from its operating specifications.

Structural, biochemical, and functional assessments. This is abysmal in the health optimization community.

4. Acquired deviations must be corrected before they cause operational failures (i.e. preventative maintenance).

Since inspection is abysmal, this is worse than abysmal.

Conceptually, this is not complicated. The problem with current health optimization strategies is that these four factors are not performed or integrated in a way that enables true health optimization. If you do not measure cellular health in sufficient detail, you cannot determine the optimal operational range and what is not. If you cannot do this, you cannot determine which lifestyle, diet, or supplement is beneficial or detrimental to restoring healthy function. If you cannot measure deviations from health, then you cannot determine epidemiological causation of disease and death, and therefore, you cannot quantify the relative importance or triviality of specific health deviations. In short, you are blindfolded and swinging wildly just hoping that you can hit the piñata.

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