Quantified Health, Wellness & Aging

Quantified Health, Wellness & Aging


Streamlining Functional Medicine Starting With Data Consolidation – EP10: Jeremy Malecha (Biocanic)

November 01, 2019

In this tenth episode, Jeremy Malecha discusses his company plans to democratize and scale functional medicine by more effective data processing.

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He discusses the need to consolidate data across hundreds of lab test lab providers, structuring of that data and finally the ability to better leverage the data. He discusses his own personal health journey along the way.
Topics we discussed in this episode

Plan to build a "personalized health engine" to democratize and speed-up functional medicine resolutions to patient symptoms
What functional medicine is
Some common blood biomarkers
Jeremy's personal health journal from sub-optimal to resolution
Other functional medicine tests including microbiome, heavy metals and DUTCH
The overly manual and therefore inefficient nature of functional medicine presently
The need to consolidate the data from all the different labs
Enabling the practitioner understand and process the data faster
Trying to have machine help give meaning over multiple lab provider results
Moving beyond "tribal knowledge" to something more grounded in data and explicit
Food sensitivity testing
Labs are not unlocking value in their data repository
Business model in data collected from all labs

Show links

Biocanic (Website)
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-10 (Wikipedia Entry)
Microbiome Testing: Wild Goose Chase or Modern Miracle? (Article)
C-Reactive-Protein (Wikipedia Entry)
Precision Analytical DUTCH test (Website)
The MTHR Gene Mutation and How to Rewire Your Genetics (Article)
Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health by Ben Lynch (Book)
Triglyceride Over HDL Ratio Calculator (Website)
NMR LipoProfile Test (Website)
Heads Up Health (Website)
QuickSilver Scientific (Website)
Diagnostic Solutions GI Map (Website)
Difference Between Classic IgE Food Allergies and Delayed IgG Food Allergies (Article)
SpectraCell (Website)
Viome (Website)
Cyrex Laboratories (Website)
Wellevate (Website)
FullScript (Website)
Alcat Test (Website)
Investors Just Bet $2.4 Billion That Your Gut is the Next Frontier for the Hottest Part of Healthcare (Article)
Oxford Biomedical Technologies (Website)
Quest Diagnostics (Website)
LabCorp (Website)