668: How a 1-hour scan can replace a 5-day physical | Andrew Lacy, Prenuvo Founder & Ceo
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What recent advances have changed whole‑body MRI scanning in the last two years?
today we are joined by Andrew Lacey, founder and CEO of Prunovo, to talk about longevity, how AI is shaping the future of diagnostics, and we dive into my personal experience with Prunovo and why I think anyone who's serious about their long-term health should consider a scan. I was blown away by the experience. I highly recommend it. And yes, of course, we've got a discount code for you in the show notes. So I just had my repeat prenuvo. And what struck me was how much more sophisticated and thorough the experience felt from the first scan, which was an incredible experience. the granularity of the measurements, the comparison against my baseline. We're going to talk about that. To me, establishing a baseline is so critical.
The follow-up from the practitioner, from the doctor, explaining what had changed, what didn't matter. He also had a huge unlock. He connected dots for my wife, Colleen, in a way that no doctor had ever connected for her, which blew her away because we have access to incredible practitioners. And to me, it made me think, I'm curious, your view, you're the visionary. that this is much you know the the whole body mri is incredibly powerful in terms of health imaging but it's just like much bigger in terms of being so comprehensive as we think about longevity but you're the you tell me what's changed over the last two years because from my vantage point of going in an hour you know spending an hour in the prenuvo like that experience was more or less the same but the results dramatically improved in a way and i i
I already had high expectations and you blew them away. So I'll pause there.
Well, I mean, look, thank you very much for sharing your experience. And for sure, there's a lot that's changed and there's a lot that hasn't. I would say probably the single biggest thing that's changed is, you know, the experience felt different for you because there was a prior. We had something that we could compare against, which we didn't have when you came in for your first baseline. But what has changed, to be honest, is Two years ago, we were just answering one question, which is, is there something in there? Now we're answering a much more interesting question, which is what's changing inside you. And so in the last two years, we have just spent so much time and money really trying to get a lot more quantified
around change longitudinally. We've introduced quantitative brain analysis. We've introduced quantitative heart analysis, which we could go into. We have built our own FDA cleared fat and muscle analysis so we can see how that is changing over time. And then we've introduced blood biomarkers, which helps us connect the structure of your body that we see with MRI with the function. And so the quantitative biomarkers we get from looking at your blood. So there's a lot that's changed. But I would say, again, the biggest thing is we're starting to see a lot more patients come back. And that has forced us to really think about our business in a much more longitudinal fashion.
You know, on that note, in coming back and establishing baselines, which I'm just such a big believer in, I use the example. So personally, in this round, We discovered, I think it was three millimeter cysts on my pancreas. And everyone has cysts, like shouldn't freak out about it. They're everywhere. When I first read it, I said, oh wow, okay, pancreas. Like everyone's scared of pancreatic cancer for all the reasons, you know, we know why. Obviously, it wasn't that. And then in the finding, it said, no changes to the prior finding. And I said, well, wait, there was no, I have a pretty good memory. I would have remembered if there was a pancreatic cyst. And sure enough, there was. The radiologist went back and compared the actual scans and the level of detail now, before I think you couldn't get below a centimeter, now millimeters.
It was in fact there, but it wasn't picked up. And To me, the story is here, no matter how small it is, you want to just be able to establish a baseline. So in and of itself, the fact that this thing's three millimeters and hasn't changed, that's huge versus this was zero, now it's four, whatever it might be.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What recent advances have changed whole‑body MRI scanning in the last two years?
0:03–4:57
2
Why is establishing a personal health baseline so critical for early detection?
4:57–10:15
3
How do ‘ageotypes’ explain why people age differently and what does the new body‑composition report reveal?
10:15–15:26
4
In what ways is AI transforming medical imaging and quantifying change over time?
15:26–20:57
5
How does the NeuroQuant brain‑volume and perfusion analysis catch dementia decades early?
20:57–26:04
6
What do patients fear most about whole‑body scans and how does peace of mind compare to avoidance?
26:04–30:43
7
Why is skin health considered the next frontier for imaging and AI‑driven diagnosis?
30:43–35:16
8
What is the long‑term vision for preventative, whole‑body healthcare and how will technology evolve?
35:16–40:19
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