Prodrome Scan Test

“Those 95-year-olds with perfectly functioning brains are not random. There is a biochemical reason for their health. There is a prodrome* for health, just like there is a prodrome for disease.

The fact is that if you can maintain health, then disease cannot occur. Disease is the absence of health in a specific part of your body. It is all about identifying biochemical reserves and having a biochemical reserve capacity.”

*Prodrome is a medical term for early signs or symptoms of an illness or health problem that appear before the major signs or symptoms start.

Scientists often falsely believe that aging is a predetermined and active process. It is not, and it is illogical to think so. Aging is not a disease, and it therefore cannot be treated as a disease. Likewise, diseases of aging are not diseases in the classical sense of a disease – they do not have a beginning or an end, they are ever present. These are diseases of “how much” not of “yes or no”, they exist on a spectrum. These are balance sheet diseases. This is also true of many autoimmune conditions including MS and ALS.

Your expenses on the balance sheet are ever present, and your income is constantly battling with them. If you want to take an income holiday, then you need to create an income reserve in excess of the expenses that will occur during this time. Classical diseases are like one-time expenses, like the hot water heater failing. Disease of aging and autoimmune conditions are continuous expenses, like rent or electricity.

Biochemistry is the currency that your body uses to pay its bills – both the one-time bills and the continuous ones. Since the invention of advanced mass spectrometry technology in 1999, it has been used to analyze thousands of human samples from persons all around the world with various stages of health and disease. It allows the equivalent of a forensic audit on numerous biochemical systems associated with disease, as well as those related to longevity and vitality.

It turns out that one of these biochemical systems, plasmalogens, plays a critical role in maintaining functionality in the human body, especially in neurological health. Plasmalogens are unique lipid molecules that are a critical part of both the neurons and the supportive myelin in your brain. They are also found in high concentrations in your heart, lung, eye, and kidney cells.

Plasmalogen levels decrease with certain diseases and with age. If the body is no longer able to make enough plasmalogens to keep up with demand, the various organs of the body become depleted.    Plasmalogens are antioxidant and anti-inflammatory molecules as well as building blocks needed to repair cells, and these functions become impaired when plasmalogen levels are low. When your biochemistry cannot pay its plasmalogen bill, sooner or later the systems that rely on it suffer.

This will be a Journey of discovery and strategy. Participants will receive a Prodrome Scan test kit, then have their blood drawn conveniently in their own home and sent by the phlebotomist to Prodrome Science. You will be notified when results are ready and a Zoom session to go over your Scan results will be scheduled. The results will be interpreted by Dr Pat and will be a current assessment of your “balance sheet”. This will allow us to determine what’s working and what can be better and to strategize for your optimal health and wellbeing.

You’ll be armed with a great deal of organized information and access to ongoing support when questions arise. Once your Zoom interpretation session is completed, you’ll also be welcome to join a monthly Zoom session where we continue to clarify strategies and explore different avenues towards healthy aging.