A Brand New, At-Home Way To Accurately Test Your *Mitochondrial* Health & Efficiency (Your Doctor Probably HASN'T Heard Of This!) With Dr. Hemal Patel
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 25 January 2025
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Summary
I recently discovered that there is actually an accurate method of figuring out how healthy your mitochondria are.
It's called "mescreen," and it is based on groundbreaking research that allows you to assess mitochondrial function through a simple at-home blood test. Mescreen decodes your cellular performance to unlock the peak potential for optimal living. This is more than guesswork, it's the first-of-its-kind, precision pathway to discover your vitality based on your mitochondrial efficiency.
Dr. Hemal Patel, my guest on this show, is a tenured professor and vice-chair for research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, San Diego, and has a dual appointment as a VA research career scientist and VA research pharmacologist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. He is also the chief scientific advisor for Verséa Discovery (the creators of mescreen). He obtained his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the Medical College of Wisconsin and did postdoctoral work at UCSD in the Department of Pharmacology under Paul Insel (2002–2005).
He has made seminal contributions in shaping new investigation areas on defining the impact of membrane structure on cell, organ, and organismal physiology and metabolism with implications for cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure, diabetic cardiomyopathy, aging, pulmonary hypertension, cancer, and neurodegeneration. His focus on energetics in cell biology touches upon all these and is a control point for managing and empowering human health resilience.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, instead of having to do a blood draw, you basically take one of these cards that you get in the kit. |
| 0:10.5 | It's got two windows in it. You poke your finger, you bleed into that first window, that bilayer system then wicks the serum away. |
| 0:18.6 | The card effectively dries, and it archives the sample. |
| 0:21.8 | We've shown stability of that sample out to two months at room temperature. |
| 0:25.7 | And so now you can literally capture a sample from anywhere in the world, get it into our facility. |
| 0:31.1 | We reanimate the serum in our proprietary buffer that we've created that's optimized |
| 0:35.1 | for these mitochondrial tests. |
| 0:37.0 | And then we're off to the |
| 0:37.9 | races. We can essentially run the NASA-type assay on your sample and look to see what types of |
| 0:43.6 | cells are being impacted by mitochondria. Mease Green in our initial launch has really optimized |
| 0:49.4 | the muscle cell. We think the muscle cell is a unique and sort of global capture of an individual's metabolic |
| 0:55.9 | state. And so that becomes a huge reporter of how efficient and well your mitochondria are behaving. |
| 1:03.1 | Welcome to the boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. I'm a personal trainer, |
| 1:09.0 | exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate |
| 1:11.9 | about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
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| 2:03.2 | Red light therapy has a lot going for for skin tone and texture. |
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