00:13:26 · Justin Mares
[00:13:26] S1: Yeah. So I think that this is... This very... It it very much depends on the person and what you're trying to work on. Like, if you get function or superpower, like, you can understand your blood work basically and look at what are the things that you're trying to, you know, treat or burst, prevent, whatever. And so for me, I think that there's a couple buckets that are really important. We talked about protein. I really do think that like, from an ROI standpoint, increasing your your gelatin and collagen intake is gonna be one of the highest ROI health inventions that almost anyone can make. Because almost everyone is, like, clinically deficient in these sorts of, in these sorts of protein. Secondly, I think that, there's something called the MTHFR mutation. It's a mutation that thirty to forty percent of people have. That means that you have a harder time, like, methylating and and sort of breaking down, clearing compounds from the body. So I have that mutation. So I take what's called a methylated B vitamin complex. That seems to help a lot in terms of not feeling like brain fog or, you know, allergies or anything like that. I take that every day. I take, Maui Nui, the deer company that I talked about earlier. They have a organ blend, basically. That's a blend of, like, liver, kidney, spleen, I think. Organs, basically. Just dried up. I take that every day. It's... Some people call it, like, nature's multivitamin. It's incredibly nutrient dense. It tastes horrible. And so I tend not to eat liver, although some people do. And then, what else do I take? And then, actually, I recently started, in the last couple months, taking a... I spent a lot of time on a screen. You know, I know it's like not the healthiest thing, but it's... We're building a company, and that's what it takes. And so I take this, Thorne product for... That helps with like macular degeneration. It's basically like to improve your eyesight, and that helps a lot, which is kind of interesting. And then lastly, for almost everyone, you know, people get very concerned about their lipid, their like heart markers. You know, cardiovascular disease, number one killer of American. And so, many people have, especially if they get their blood work back, they're like, oh, my LPA or my APO B or my LDL are high from a risk standpoint.
00:15:39 · Justin Mares
I think that that is like a very, very smart thing to manage. And so I actually... I take this supplement. It's an enzyme called nattokinase. It's basically like... It's an enzyme that comes from fermented soybeans. It's a very popular... A food called natto in Japan, which is very popular. And so this is, I think for me, like, one of the highest bang for your buck kind of supplements that you can take generally, especially if you're concerned about heart health. And so, it really matters, the efficacy and the dosage. And so I take this brand called Toku, that has TOKU, which has like the effective dose, that research has shown works lit... Like slightly better than statin for preventing and breaking down, arterial plaque, which, you know, ultimately is what leads to heart heart attack. So that's kind of my my life supplement stat. I really think that the the right thing to do is basically look at get your blood work done, look at areas that you're deficient. Also, frankly, like, how do you feel? How's your energy? If your energy is bad or your cognition is slow, maybe you wanna take, like, certain sub supplements that would help with that. If you wanna improve your digestion, like, there's TEDCON, like, other sorts of things that you could kind of experiment with taking. But I think it's it's very, very personal. And the biggest thing that I would do, frankly, is, like, get your labs done, put them in chat GBT or something, and be like, hey, based on this, what supplement intervention should I consider running for the next ninety days, hundred eighty days? And then retest. And so I've kind of done that loop a while and now just take supplements mostly for maintenance and trying to, like, feel good and either prevent things that I... That I'm aware of, or just general risk factors or, you know, work on things like improving my methylation.
00:17:27 · Daisy Wolf
[00:17:27] S2: Cool. Okay. That bring... That's a good transition to our next topic, which is like, what is your approach to preventative care in general? You've mentioned blood work. What kind of blood work do you do? Do you do imaging? Talk to us about... Like, do you go to your doctor for, you know, an annual checkup? Talk to us about, like, you know, everything you do in health care from a preventative perspective to monitor your health.
00:17:52 · Justin Mares
[00:17:52] S1: Yeah. It's a great question. So I have gotten labs done every, like, six months for the last couple years, last five years, I would say. And I think that that is probably one of the best places to start. Like, I think that if you sort of qualitatively are tracking, how do I feel? What are areas that I feel I can improve? What are things that, like, don't feel right? That is a very interesting data point. There's a ton of experiments you can always be running in the background around, like, does x, y, and z help with my sleep? Does this, do I feel better after doing this? And so I really do think it is a very personal thing where, you know, you just look at like, what are your labs? What markers do you want to make better? And then you do like a couple interventions to try and work on them over the next six months. From a scan standpoint, about once a year for... I guess it's been like once every eighteen months. Like, my labs are very good and I'm pretty healthy, and so I don't like overly obsess about getting like an annual scan or anything like that. But about every eighteen months, I will do like a calcium test, which tests just like calcium buildup in your arteries. And then also go get like a... I did like an Ezra scan eighteen months ago that's just, like, looking for precancerous growths and things like this, which I think is smart, especially if you have risk factors or, like, a family history of these things.
00:19:14 · Daisy Wolf, Justin Mares
[00:19:14] S2: Totally. I mean, I I think what you're saying is a real thing where it's like for people who are really interested in health, are taking health into their own hands, you... Their annual physical is often, like, quite underwhelming. Totally. You're so in this every day that it's like you're already probably doing a layer beyond what what you're kind doing. [00:19:33] S1: And like the the average PCP spends something like forty minutes with a patient per year. I mean, so if you have a primary care physician, they're just not... They they don't have like the context. They often don't know or, like, have not gone deep on a lot of the chronic conditions that people are likely to work with. You know, if I if I talked to them and said, hey. I'm concerned with my, like, APOB or LPA markers. Should I go on a statin? Like, many of them would be like, I don't really know what those markers are. I'm not really not really up to date on them, but, like, probably you should go on a statin, which I just, like, clinically don't think is the right intervention for someone that is, you know, younger, healthier, and, like, has a a pretty low risk profile. So, yeah, I I generally am like... I think that the way medicine is done today is going to change a huge amount in the coming decade or so. And I think that a big piece of that is gonna be people are taking health into their own hands, and they're gonna do so armed with a bunch of information about their labs and other stuff that traditional doctor didn't get, didn't have... Didn't just historically have not cared about.
00:20:36 · Daisy Wolf
[00:20:36] S2: Talk to us about, like, the rest of your physical environment. House cleaning. Like, how do you avoid toxins? What what should we care about? I know in this... Like, we're all existing in this world, and there's only so much we can do. But what do you do? And if you're giving advice to, like, you know, an average person to make a few changes, what are the things that, you know, you would actually