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

What I Discuss with Dr. Hemal Patel:

• How mitochondrial health can be tested through innovative at-home kits, the profound role of mitochondria in energy production and cell resilience, and their critical link to chronic diseases like diabetes, heart failure, and neurodegeneration…06:12
• How the heart’s mitochondria have different roles, from producing energy to responding to stress and regulating cell function, depending on their location…10:56
• The role of mitochondrial efficiency in preventing chronic diseases, enhancing performance, and supporting recovery…14:49
• The mescreen mitochondrial efficiency test, which uses a simple blood sample to analyze biochemical markers as a proxy for mitochondrial health…
• How blood plasma analysis, inspired by NASA’s twin study, provides a scalable, non-invasive way to monitor mitochondrial health, predict organ dysfunction, and assess stress resilience…18:29
• The mescreen (use code BEN to save 10%) test enables easy at-home mitochondrial health checks, plus its stability for global testing and studies on the transformative impact of meditation on mitochondrial health…25:51
• How the mescreen test analyzes mitochondrial function by simulating stress on muscle cells…32:47
• How the mescreen test analyzes free radical production and energy balance by measuring reactive oxygen species and energy pathways like mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis…40:03
• How the mescreen test evaluates mitochondrial network dynamics by tagging mitochondria with glowing proteins to monitor their connectivity…46:44
• How the mescreen test measures the effects of lifestyle changes, supplements, and therapies, short-term mitochondrial boosts from psychedelics, and the importance of consistent routines over chasing trends…50:21
• Ben’s routine and how it appears to support optimal mitochondrial function, emphasizing the importance of personalized approaches….55:40

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.

Mitochondria efficiency scores that are measured and provided by your mescreen test include:

• The Energy Profile: Evaluates the core functions of your mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, providing a baseline of your mitochondrial health and oxygen consumption for tracking over time. This assessment is pivotal for understanding your energy production and resilience against stress and disease, reflecting the efficiency of your mitochondria in sustaining your overall vitality.
• The Mito ROS scores: Provides refined insights into your mitochondria’s ability to manage and generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) and free radicals under stress. Elevated ROS production can lead to oxidative damage, contributing to aging and various health conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes.
• The Mito Network scores: Gives a more detailed picture of your mitochondria’s ability to create and handle cellular stress, especially in terms of mitochondrial network function.
• The Energy Balance scores: Assesses four key aspects of mitochondrial health—glycolytic, aerobic, Q-score, and energetic scores—revealing your response to stress, energy equilibrium, and cellular recovery 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.