Optimal Health Uncovered

E17: Is a blood panel right for me? with Trevor Perry

September 15, 2020 Performance
Optimal Health Uncovered
E17: Is a blood panel right for me? with Trevor Perry
Show Notes Transcript

In this episode, Todd and Mike are joined by Trevor Perry, founder and CEO of Goodcell Health Technology Platform.  Goodcell takes blood panels by drawing blood and uses that data to create actionable steps to improving your health, whether that be biomarkers for potential diseases or susceptibility to injury.  Trevor discusses the process of the Goodcell blood paneling, what it means, and how it could benefit a client.  

Introduction 

Trevor Perry from Goodcell which is a Health Technology Platform

Personal biobanking, genetics, and health testing

Trevor used to be in the military

?Dr. David Scadden

Creating an entire service/product for a cell source for therapy or diagnosis

Blood was the answer – cures disease

Build a service that could find the answers which was in blood

Kevin Eggan

Steve McCarroll

Jerry Ritz at Dana Farber

Advise cell therapy and allow it to evolve

Trevor has 3 boys (9, 8, and 6 years old)

Avid basketball fans

Collecting blood, analyzing and storing blood

Process is simple – start with blood draw, entry way into biobanking, identify future risks by combining genetic testing and blood testing, give you actionable

Cells that show risk of prostate and breast cancer

23 and me, ancestry give great feedback and identify DNA history

The big difference is that Goodcell goes further than genetic testing

Goodcell is working to use your test to determine how bad your symptoms might be if you were to contract the coronavirus (COVID-19)

Take the cells that we collect, reprogram the cells 

Hematopoietic stem cells that are associated with Leukemia and lymphoma

How do you work with physician partners

Trust is so important – genetic counselors and physicians on staff at Goodcell.

What to do with the results of a Goodcell test?

Biobanking

Cliacap certified

Triple backed up 

2 football fields worth of storage

Work with sites that meet Goodcell criteria

Creating uniformity throughout their partners with storing cells and blood

Everyone should be doing personal biobanking

Sharing data and keeping privacy

Goodcell isn’t just about storing blood cells

Diabetes, Parkinsons, spinal cord injuries

Immune cells

Cell therapy

How does Goodcell fit into Performance who is a physical therapy and wellness company

Using these baseline measurements and making it actionable

Becoming more personalized and using this technology to help prevent disease

Collect data using wearables to find out actionable steps to create optimal health

Can we ask Goodcell to create a blood panel for our clients?

Performance Blood Panel

Gain more objective data 

4 pillars of optimal health – stress, recovery, exercise, nutrition

Inflammatory markers such as high lipids, c-reactive proteins, TNF Alpha, Iron, zinc, vitamin d.

Linking to COVID-19 potentially

Cardiovascular risks for certain markers

Iron panel is more important for 

IGF

Outro