Dr. Michael Snyder

So this is the kind of stuff we do.

These are what you're calling observational trials.

Take deep data measurements on people to better see what's going on, make hypotheses, and then, yeah, ideally roll it out into the real world.

I'm down on sabbatical at UC Irvine with Shaisna Malik, who runs an integrative health institute where they bring in nutrition, exercise, and things like acupuncture into trying to better manage people's health and lives.

And it's been very fascinating for me because they're doing it on the clinical side.

I'm kind of a big data measurement guy, and so I want to see what's going on, if there's ways that make sense to collaborate.

And as you point out,

acupuncture has been around for 3,000 years or some incredible number.

There must be something to it, right?

People use it a lot for pain and apparently for fertility and other things as well.

And there are plenty of people who swear by it.

And she uses it for blood pressure, okay, for blood pressure management.

So I run a little high on the blood pressure, not –

Nobody's overly panicked, but I tend to be in the high 130s, but I guess because I was getting a very large grain, I was in the low 140s.

And so I measured myself right before acupuncture, very specific time of day with my monitor at home.

And yeah, I was running 140 over the low 80s, something like 82, 83, did five measurements.

So I did the acupuncture, which is designed for blood pressure and diabetes, and maybe I can go off the GLPs if all this works.

But anyway, the next day I measured it, the exact same time, and son of a gun, it was 25 points lower.

It's the high teens, like 118.

Wow.