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🔥 Spotify Founder's Longevity Startup: Bear v Bull Case (Neko Health)

Big Picture Medicine

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The Risks of Screening for Cancer Markers

NICO is a company that does whole body MRI scans and biological age tests. They're not doing these cancer markers, I've lost lots of false positives. To me, from the list of scans they are doing, they seem very sensible. But when you own the... I think the benefit of doing lipid panels and simple things like glucose levels, fat percentages, visceral fast emissions, I think it benefits way outweigh the risks of finding spurious results. It feels like a European approach to pretend preventative health rather than more grounded in traditional clinical practice or intuition. We have good ways of treating and investigating those further.

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