Re:Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup
by mtberatwork on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:19AM
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No, you do NOT need to do frequent blood checks. Find yourself a doctor that you feel comfortable with, do yearly physicals and consult with them for anything in-between. Excessive testing will needlessly lead you into a spiral of health anxiety.
Re:Why kidney failure led me to found an Health Tech Startup
by blitzar on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:01PM
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Every 3-6 months tested and annual physical. Every physical I have ever had has included bloods - so it seems we agree on that frequency.
Done it for 10 years and 0 spirals of health anxiety, reduced medications and improved health. Annecdotal perhaps, but every person I know that undertakes a similar regime suffers far far less from health anxiety than those that dont. However, the health anxious tend to be sure they have cancer/diabetes/brain tumors based on their google searches but refuse to go to a doctor and get a checkup.
still a hard pass from me, I dont trust the 23 and me's of this world with my genetic code.
> get frequent blood checks
Do this either way, prevention is better than any cure, and monitoring is the first step to prevention. Elizabeth Holmes vision was not entriely stupid, when combined with batting her eyelashes, was what lured so many people in.