Ben Lamm
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's super awesome.
And I actually have a gene mutation that creates a truncated protein off my heart, right?
Off the Titan gene.
I think it's either the biggest gene or one of the biggest genes in the body.
And I didn't want to pass that on, you know, I'm healthy.
It still takes some meds to control.
I didn't want to pass it on.
And so if you do typical embryo screening, that doesn't show up, right.
It doesn't show up in your, your, what I say standard.
And so I found this company full disclosure, I'm an investor in the company, but I invested after I, I like, I didn't invest in it, but I always want to be transparent about when I have money in something and I talk about it.
And so, um, so I, I hired this company called orchid health.
Um,
And what they do is they do the next level of screening.
So you do certain screening.
We went through IVF.
So if you go through that, you do certain screening, and you can learn certain things.
But it doesn't screen for specific variants like what I had, right?
Got it.
So I wanted to make sure I didn't pass that on.
So we went through this process where we extracted eggs, created embryos, and then we screened all the embryos.