Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark - How to Test Your Biomarkers & Why Your Doc Isn't Doing It | Geviti Founder Nate Graville

Starting point is 00:00:00 My father passed away because he wasn't getting his blood work frequently enough. He did all the right things. He worked out four or five days a week. He ate generally healthy. But the box that he left unchecked was he never went in to go look underneath the hood. He started experiencing this lower back pain and come to find out it was cancer. What is it about Jevity that is different than function health? We're sort of an end-to-end solution.

Starting point is 00:00:21 So it doesn't stop at the blood work. We're going to use this blood work to create a care plan for the individual, geared towards longevity, really walk through that process with the individual. After losing his father to cancer in 2021, despite being physically active, never took the proactive steps of getting regular lab tests. Nate Granville was inspired to create Jevity, a platform that empowers individuals to take control of their health. Jevity offers comprehensive, accessible health screening and optimization, helping people catch potential issues early and manage their well-being with personalized insights, with blood testing and health coaching

Starting point is 00:01:21 right from your own home. His mission is to bridge the gap left by a reactive health care system and give everyone the tools to proactively own their health journey. This show is made possible with generous tax-deductible donations from listeners like you who believe in our mission to illicit culture, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Find the link in the show notes to donate, or you can leave a five-star review for free. Be sure to follow us on Instagram at Culture Apothecary and join the Kutzervitus Facebook group, where we dive into the topics that we discuss here and connect with like-minded women all over the country. Please welcome Jevety Founder, Nate Granville on Culture Apothecary to explain what biomarker testing is and why the blood work

Starting point is 00:01:57 that you've been getting at the hospital once every few years is not cutting it. I didn't even know this, but you and I both go to Shepard's House, Kosti Hens Church in Phoenix. That's right. Yep. I don't know how this didn't even come up in our first meeting. That's so crazy. You know, after we had met the first time, I had posted about it somewhere and somebody was like, oh yeah, Alex, she goes to church with us, and I had no idea. It's so funny. How long have you been going? My wife and I, we switched over to Shepard's House about a year ago.

Starting point is 00:02:27 Okay, so same as me. Have you gotten Kosti roped into all this Jevity stuff or what? Kosti should be signing up here soon. He's a big fan. Kossi and I, we're close friends. He leads up our men's retreat that we do every year in September. So he comes out and he, you know, he preaches to about 25, you know, young men who are early into their marriages or early into fatherhood and, you know, speaks life to us. And this past September, it was pretty much. much one large Jevity promotion. And he lives a life. He's, you know, he's very much on top of his health. Oh, Kosti is mahaed out. Yes. He is. He's like all in on the seed oils and stuff. I, I just interviewed this like Christian fitness trainer. And he was talking about that how like the American church is really on the

Starting point is 00:03:09 hook for how unhealthy America is. Think of how many things revolve around food within the church and how we're just really letting people down like what we're serving and all this things. And I said, well, I think I have an anomaly. I said, my pastor is all in on raw milk and no seed oils. And I was like, you know, my small grooves are like gluten-free. Like, it's really incredible. I have like a unicorn church, I think. So that's funny that you and I both go there. For sure, for sure.

Starting point is 00:03:31 And to touch on that just briefly, it's unfortunate because, and you see this in other industries too, but pastors, they're so adamant and it's important that they put their congregation a lot of times before themselves. And their health is usually the expense of that. But Kosti definitely makes a point to prioritize his health. And in turn, I mean, you can tell when he's on stage and he's talking to his congregation. He is energized. He's completely there cognitively, physically. And unfortunately, you don't see, you don't see enough of that in the church. And that's one of the things that we, you know, we're working on doing at Jevity is serving pastors and first responders and people who make a living out of literally putting other people before themselves. So, yeah, I mean, you hit the nail on the head. He is, as you said, Mahat out. I love that. I haven't heard that one yet. So you're really young. I mean, you're in your late 20s, mid to late 20s. Yeah, you're in your mid-20s. And your eyes have been. opened on all of this stuff with pharma and food and personal health and how we really can't rely on

Starting point is 00:04:27 anybody else, especially the government to tell us like what is or isn't healthy. Obviously, we've learned that the hard way as a country. So how in the world did you get your eyes open to all of this so young? I was primarily led here because of my father. So up until about 2021, my father was quite an active individual. He did all the right things. He worked out four or five days a week. He ate generally healthy. He lived in Old Town Scottsdale, so him and his wife, my stepmother. They would go and frequently walk the canals together. He had a moderate, moderate stress lifestyle. Nothing crazy.

Starting point is 00:05:00 But the box that he left unchecked was he never went in to go look underneath the hood. He assumed, well, I feel healthy, therefore I am healthy. Well, early 2021, he started experiencing this lower back pain. And so he went to a masseuse to try to get it rubbed out. And that didn't work. So he went to a chiropractor and that didn't work. So over the course of like six months, he was trying to figure out what was causing this back pain that was progressively getting worse. And it seemed like it was,

Starting point is 00:05:27 you know, some sort of issue with his muscles, his lower back muscles. Well, eventually he went in to go get some blood work done and he noticed some abnormalities on his CBC. And that led him to go get a MRI and come to find out it was cancer. So it was cancer that had started in his lungs, had spread through his back, up his back to his brain. And, you know, he spent six months trying to find out what was causing this back pain before he decided to go in and look underneath the hood. And unfortunately, this is a pitfall that too many Americans fall into. They assume, okay, I feel fine. Well, therefore, I am fine. And additionally, Americans have sort of settled for what fine is like supposed to be. You're not supposed to just like have low energy. You're not supposed to feel, you know,

Starting point is 00:06:12 lethargic by five o'clock. These aren't normal things, but we've convinced ourselves that these are normal things. Everybody feels this way by the end of the day. So that led me to, to Jevity. He ended up passing away, unfortunately, September 8th, 2021. So earlier that year, I had sold my tech company. What that allowed me to do was really be present with my father for that whole year. And I wasn't rushed into the next thing. I didn't have pressure to rush into the next thing. But after my father passed, he was 58 years old, too young to die. See, this is crazy to me because you and I both, unfortunately, are members of the Dead Dad Club now. I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you. And

Starting point is 00:06:50 my dad was 56. So much of your story resonates with me. And my audience knows my dad's story well now. And so that was like something that really struck me about Jevity too is like the mission and like what led you here is so similar to me. It's just wild. It's too young. It's not uncommon. It's like the more I talk to people, this is this is a common story. I'm telling other people's story as well. And it relates to a lot of people. And it's so unfortunate. I mean, 58's, which far too young to die, especially from cancer, which we now know, can be largely prevented. We know this. Science validates this. There's things that we can do in our life to lower the risk of cancer, cancer spreading and ultimately dying from cancer. So the mission became, okay, how can I take my tech background and essentially prevent people from experiencing what it was that I experienced? So what I did is I started looking at sort of what diagnostic solutions were available in the market, starting with what my primary care physician would write up if I ask for a full panel. And come to find out it's not that much data. When they're looking at, for example, assessing your cardiovascular health, they're not even looking at things like apollipar

Starting point is 00:07:58 protein B, which we now know is extremely, extremely important to have in your blood work. Why? By the way, my background is not in medicine. So I'm an avid consumer. And my background's in technology. I default to the experts on this. But they're the little proteins in your LDL. So essentially your LDL has been considered right, your bad cholesterol. The proteins in your LDL are really what matter more than your LDL. That's your apollipar protein B. So that that biomarker certainly matters more than if you had some sort of, you know, abnormality in your LDL alone. We want to see, okay, what does your apollipar protein B look like? Not just what does your LDL look like. Your LDL could look off, but your apollipar protein B might be fine. And that's really

Starting point is 00:08:43 what matters. So, and it's not common for your primary care physician to include that in, in their full panel assessment. So we started there. with primary care physicians saw that they weren't looking at too many health biomarkers, 20 or so is what they were looking at. There's companies out there who offer at home diagnostic solutions, but they were expensive. And they weren't looking at that much. One of the silver linings of COVID was there was sort of a lifting of regulations on the state and federal level as it relates to telehealth. And so my journey began looking into diagnostic solutions, but then I started looking into what sort of end-to-end telehealth solutions where they're out there

Starting point is 00:09:20 on the market as well. What sort of companies online were pairing advanced diagnostics with end-to-end care? And we didn't find any. We didn't find any that we're doing it well. And we certainly didn't find any that weren't simply taking this brick-and-mortar style approach to healthcare and just bringing it online, not leveraging any of the really cool things that being online allows you to do, like build really cool software to automate things or build AI and machine learning to, you know, promote better patient outcomes, which is what we do at Jevity. So yeah, my journey began with my father. I started talking with some of the world's best in longevity and trying to take the wisdom from these people and package it into a product that is seamless and easy to use and removes a lot

Starting point is 00:10:05 of the anxiety that surrounds your health and make a solution that's completely data-driven. No guesswork. The way we do supplementation is different. The way we do supplementation is different. The way we do, you know, various prescription therapeutics is different. Your blood work paints the picture. It's a blueprint to your health. And we need to look at a lot of blood work data to make really, really good decisions, such as what supplement should we be taking. It's not enough to go get a full panel done from your primary care physician. They're not looking at enough biomarkers. Jevity, we're looking at 100 or so different biomarkers across various physiological systems. And with that, we're able to paint the complete picture of one's health status and use that as sort of

Starting point is 00:10:44 the roadmap to create a health optimization plan. If you're anything like me, you've probably been on the hunt for a good functional medicine doctor, right? Like, you know that you want to get to the root cause of all your health issues. You don't just want some quick fix with a prescription. You want to find the right doctor. Good luck with that. You're probably figuring this out.

Starting point is 00:11:04 I mean, every time I search, I either get someone who's like a 45-minute drive away or even worse. They just don't vibe with what I'm looking for. And forget getting an appointment anytime soon. The slots are booked out months in advance. That is where Jevity comes in and totally changes the game. They've got this virtual personal health concierge who's available to you anytime, anywhere. No more chasing down practitioners or waiting forever for an appointment.

Starting point is 00:11:26 Jevity is a full-service health partner that does the legwork for you. So here's how it works. They are a biomarker testing company with a full health team to work with you figuring out not only your results, but also how you're doing for the next several months. They'll first send a phlebotomist to your door for a blood test, and then they connect you with a functional medicine expert who crafts a totally personalized health plan for you. They're using cutting edge tests to really understand your health. And then they deliver custom supplements or therapies or peptide straight to your door. Plus, semi-annual checkups to

Starting point is 00:11:56 refine your plan. The best part, you don't have to leave your couch or drive to an office. It's all virtual, all about you all on your schedule. And this is all $129 a month. That's it. Skip the waitlist because there is a waitlist. This is a brand new company. They only have a certain amount of health personnel to go around. You'll get 20% off the first month and skip that waitlist at gogevity.com with code Alex. That's gogevity.com code Alex. All right, picture this. You wake up and your sinuses aren't screaming like they're on fire. Your face isn't swollen like someone used it as a punching bag. Your breath no longer sounding like you're suffocating in a dust storm. Sounds like a fantasy? Well, it's not. It's alertica. The natural product that'll actually solve your allergy problems

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Starting point is 00:14:23 Until now. Until now. Yes. Thank God for that. The whole system is reactive. It's far more profitable to be reactive. It's way more profitable for people to be sick because then they can prescribe drugs and keep people in this constant sort of cycle that's very, very hard to escape. It's far harder to make money by promoting a healthy lifestyle. But that's ultimately what we're doing. And we have people like RFK Jr. who have been very much outspoken, people like yourself, who have been very much outspoken about proactive and preventative health and sort of getting out of this traditional Western medicine system that we've been living in for decades. What is Jevity? Because you do

Starting point is 00:15:01 so many different things. Jevity simply put is a health optimization membership, if you will. So I'll walk you through the process. It's quite simple. You go on our website and you sign up. And the first thing you do is schedule your at-home blood draw. We're going to send a phlebotomist out to your house to draw your and in that blood draw, again, we're looking at a hundred or so biomarkers across various physiological systems. Let me tell you something. This person comes like a thief in the night. I open my door, this woman was as nice as can be, comes in and then it was so fast. I mean, I seriously think she was in and out within five minutes and I was like, that's it. It was so quick. And she's like, oh, yep, that's all that. That's all it is. It was amazing. I was like, wow. And you didn't

Starting point is 00:15:41 have to wait in a waiting room or anything. It was just like the easiest, most convenient thing of my life. And that's the way it should be, right? Especially, I try to design Jevity, essentially so my wife will use it. She's at home right now with a two and a half year old. He's just crazy. He's sweet, but he's crazy. And we have a four week old. And she doesn't have time to go to, you know, a functional medicine clinic and schedule an appointment and go get her blood work done and then go back for her review. And nobody has time for that. And it shouldn't be that way. And because of Jevity, and there's some other companies out there that are good companies, too, that do really good diagnostic solutions as well.

Starting point is 00:16:18 But because of Jevity, people don't have to do that any longer. So it all starts with the blood work. And it's very simple, like you said, in and out in 10 minutes or less. Those results come in about a week. And we use that to create your health improvement plan, essentially. We call it your health optimization plan. And we're assessing all of those biomarkers to see exactly what we need to do to optimize your health. Well, traditionally, with blood work, there's the reference ranges. And primary care physicians

Starting point is 00:16:45 don't really care if they're sort of on the higher end or the lower end of that reference range. As long as it's within the reference range, it's fine. But within these reference ranges, there's actually an optimal range that's not talked about enough. And it's certainly not talked about in primary care. And our goal is simple. Let's look at all of this blood work. And let's look at each biomarker individually and do what we have to do to bring you back to office. optimal in each biomarker. And if you do that, your health is going to be optimized and as a byproduct of that, you're going to live a longer, happier, healthier life. And so it starts with the blood work. From there, you're assigned a care team. And that's a wellness specialist, which is either a functional

Starting point is 00:17:28 nutritionist or a health coach and a medical provider. That's your care team. And together, they are going to assess all of this data. And we're going to start with supplementation. So supplementation is done poorly in the United States. Why? What do you mean? Supplementation is generally done this way. You're scrolling through Instagram and your favorite influencer shouts out a product that you should be taking. Then you buy it because somebody you trust online is telling you that you need this.

Starting point is 00:17:54 But it's total guesswork. A lot of the times, quite literally, people are peeing it down the toilet because their body just doesn't need it. I get asked that all the time my audience is like, please, please share what supplements you're taking. I'm like, dude, I could screw you up because what is. wrong with me may not be wrong with you and it could really create problems what you've got going on if I take what you're taking my I mean this is powerful natural medicine so it's like you don't want to

Starting point is 00:18:18 just take anything just because someone is exactly there should be no guesswork with supplementation you should look at your blood work and let that tell you what you need to do and so that's what we do we create the longevity blend it's AM and PM packets designed specifically for the individual based on their blood work and it couldn't be more simple than that I take my AM packet in the morning before I leave to the office and I bring my PM packet with me to the office. It breaks it up time of the day. Oh yeah. Yeah, for sure. It should be that way too. There are certain things that, you know, you want to take in the evening that you don't want to take in the morning and vice versa. It's totally precise. So that's how supplementation should be done. But generally people

Starting point is 00:18:55 hear, oh, I should be taking this because somebody online told them that. Then they go to Amazon and they find the cheapest product on Amazon that has that same name that they were told they should be taking. Because that's the problem too is where we're so. our supplements from and all the filler junk that's in a lot of these, it's awful. There's no regulatory body that is making sure what's on the label is actually in the product. That's just really, the supplements is a wild wild west. Yeah. And I'm not for, you know, bureaucracy by any means, but you need to know if you're buying

Starting point is 00:19:29 something on Amazon, don't just trust a label. Make sure you do your due diligence. Look at where these supplement companies are sourcing their products. look for a third-party validation that supports, you know, what the claims that these supplement companies are making. So everything that Jevity does, it all comes out of a pharmacy. It's all third-party tested. And you're not only doing supplements because you're helping people if they need hormone replacement, if they want to start taking peptides, which I am crossing my fingers. I really am on this peptide thing. I really want to try some. So I hope that my health team will have some good

Starting point is 00:19:58 recommendations for me. I'm meeting with my health team in like a week, I think. So I haven't gotten to do that part yet of the Jevity process. But I'm very anxious to find out about it. that. Hormone therapy is one of the things that we do, hormone optimization. So that looks different for, of course, men and women. But our hormones are so out of whack, especially nowadays. I mean, there's men, for example, who are walking around with testosterone levels of a 50-year-old male from, you know, 50 or so years ago. I forget the exact statistic. And then women, women are struggling. There's so many hormonal imbalances that probably derive because of our, you know, inadequate food supply essentially, but also our lifestyle and environmental factors that play into that.

Starting point is 00:20:38 Our job is when we can, let's use natural interventions to get your hormones back to optimal. But for perimenopausal or menopausal women, hormone therapy is absolutely a necessity in most instances. And that's one of the things we do here at Jevity as well. And it's simple. Again, it's all based on your blood work. There's no guesswork. You purchase it through our application. We're not marking up the costs of that as well, which is awesome. And we send it to your house. You don't have to go to a pharmacy to pick it up. it's just delivered to your door. And you have a physician in your pocket that you can address whenever you want to, ask questions about your hormone therapy protocol. And then there's peptides, which is more on the regenerative medicine side of things. And Jevety is very big into regenerative medicine. Peptides, stem cell therapy, that sort of stuff. So are you guys going to get into stem cell therapy? We are. We have plans on getting into that. Excited. Yeah, this year. Okay. I'm very interested in that. I would like to be one of the guinea pigs.

Starting point is 00:21:29 Awesome. Yeah. We'll include you in that. And I'm local. So please. Yeah, yeah. At home, stem cell IVs is what we're getting into. You guys also do stuff for hair regrowth, don't you? We do things for hair regrowth for men and women. We noticed a lot of women coming to us after COVID losing hair. There's this notable uptick in women coming to us with hair loss issues. And so we have products here at Jevity that address that.

Starting point is 00:21:57 Again, we try to address the root cause. But if and when necessary, we're going to use pharmaceutical problems. products that are compounded locally, not big pharma, to address those issues, or we're going to include something in your longevity blend that will address those issues as well. There's a lot of different reasons behind this, and there's not any one reason why people are losing their hair. And so each situation needs to be addressed individually and uniquely. And again, that's what Jevity does really, really well. We are tailor-making the product around the individual. How do Jevity tests show abnormalities or show signs of diabetes?

Starting point is 00:22:33 or metabolic issues long before even symptoms. Your blood work is going to absolutely paint the picture before symptoms arise. And it's important. That's why frequent blood work is necessary. So, for example, at Jevity, we at no added cost, part of the membership, we run your blood work twice annually. And again, it's extensive. We're looking 100 plus biomarkers.

Starting point is 00:22:54 Are people not getting their blood work done frequently enough? No, goodness, no. My father passed away because he wasn't getting his blood work frequently enough. And most Americans will go a year or more at a time without going in and looking underneath the hood. And when they do, again, the blood work is not adequate. The reason behind that is because doctors are going to only add to the bloodwork requisition what insurance is going to cover. And insurance does not like preventative or proactive health care. Because that's the first thing people are going to ask.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Well, is this covered by insurance? No, but we make it so affordable that hopefully for most people it fits into their situation. insurance, like I said, does not like proactive or preventative health care. HSA and FSA funds will cover what we do. So there is that. Insurance, unfortunately, is part of the reactive sort of traditional Western medicine system that we're trying to break through. You say you wish your fave podcasters would be more transparent. Well, how's this for transparency?

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Starting point is 00:26:31 So we need to look at inflammation markers, things like C-Reactive protein and other markers as well. Looking at traditional cholesterol is no longer adequate. We know that it's a biomarker that has very little relevance nowadays because now we know we should be looking at things like apollipur protein A1 or apollipur protein B. It really depends on the individual. It's important to stay on top of all of it. I mean, as we age, our hormones are going to become imbalanced out of whack. And so that's, you know, incredibly important to stay on top of. We have young people coming to us with with hormone imbalances that we want to address too.

Starting point is 00:27:05 So certainly hormone imbalances are not just for older people. We're having young people come to us with hormone imbalances that we're addressing. And that's important. You don't know really who you are, what life is supposed to feel like, unless your hormones are balanced. I mean, we have people coming to us who they've accepted this as normal. and we do some simple interventions, get their hormones back to normal, and they feel like a totally, totally different person. They found themselves again. Their relationships are better. Their energy levels are higher. Their sex life is better, which is, you know, semi-taboo, but it's important.

Starting point is 00:27:46 Sure, yeah. All these things are so dependent on hormones. So hormones are definitely an important thing that we should be looking at as it pertains to longevity. But we really don't leave any stone unturned Everybody's so different. We're trying to look at as much as we can and track it over time. That's important too. Not enough people get their blood work done first off, but even less do it routinely. And when we're talking about getting ahead of the curve, it's important that we're tracking the trends of each of these biomarkers over time. If you're just looking one off every now and then, that's going to paint a picture, sure, but you want to know where are things trending. That's how you get ahead of things like cardiovascular disease. That's how you get ahead of things like cancer.

Starting point is 00:28:27 Do any biomarkers at Jevity test for cancer? So we do have a test at Jevity in our marketplace that is specific for cancer screening, which is really cool. So there's traditionally two ways of going about it. One has more clinical validation. One has less. The one we offer, it's a test by Grail. It's called Gallery.

Starting point is 00:28:47 And it's a blood draw. It's essentially simply put, it's a methylation test. It's looking at fragmentation of DNA from cancer cells. and it's able to essentially assess if you have early stage cancer or late stage cancer across 50 or so different types of cancers. And it's super accessible. You go to the Jevity application if you're a member. We're not marking this test up at all. And if you have a family history or if in your longevity panel, which is the 100 plus biomarker panel that we run initially, and then again, every six months, if there's anything abnormal in your CBC or if there's inflammation markers that are.

Starting point is 00:29:25 are totally out of whack and you have a family history. We're going to say, hey, if you have the means, you should consider this test, the gallery test. We have a wide array of different testing options outside of our standard blood work. I say standard blood work. It's far from standard compared to what's out there. Things like Dutch testing, things like GI map. So you do all of that as well? Yeah, absolutely. My audience is really like they all want to know where to get the Dutch test. Yeah, we're going to start with the blood work and let that, you know, create the blueprint. But yeah, we have a lot of people who really love Dutch testing as well. Got microbiome too?

Starting point is 00:30:00 Yeah, yeah. The GI map looks at that, which is important. That's critical, in my opinion. I try to push everybody towards the GI map. Not a fun process, but it is worth it. A little bit gross, but yes, you're right. And we're constantly adding to this. We work with the lab called Genova.

Starting point is 00:30:16 We offer their metabolomics panel, which is a micronutrient array. Micronutrients are critically important as well, as it pertains to just feeling good, we're walking around with so many nutrient deficiencies, most people. And we don't even know it. And it's because our food supply just frankly sucks. The soil that's growing our food, all of it.

Starting point is 00:30:36 I mean, that's what's contributing to the mineral deficiency, nutrient deficiency. That's right. One, I think people get confused, like, why is this testing? Like, why is it a monthly membership? And so what I think is important to hear what Nate is saying is that it is an ongoing team of health professionals that are checking in with you

Starting point is 00:30:54 that are seeing how you're doing. Like on your app, it'll tell you everything your biological age, how you're doing, is your health improving? Is it getting worse? So that you can track your progress because if you just do this one and done and then it's like, okay, I went and got a Dutch test,

Starting point is 00:31:07 but now I have no idea what to do with these results. I have no team to check in with me in a couple months to see how I'm improving or not. I mean, that's kind of critical. Otherwise, I feel like this is all kind of null and void. Exactly. you don't have that safety net of people to help you. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:31:22 That's what I liked about you guys. And one of the top questions that I get asked when it comes to Jevity is like, okay, well, there's a lot of different companies out there that test biomarkers that do labs, like Function Health. And we love the people at Function Health. But what is it about Jevity that is different than function health so that people understand just like some pros and cons or some differences? Let me start by saying we're a fan of function. We're a fan of any diagnostic solution that looks at as many blood. biomarkers as we're looking at, frankly. It's a matter of, look, if it's going to be function

Starting point is 00:31:53 that gets you through the door and getting looked at, looking underneath the hood, by all means, let it be function. We want it to be Jeffity, of course. Where we're different is function is a diagnostic solution. They're looking at 100 or so biomarkers, also a membership model. And then, I believe, three to six months later, they're looking at 60. Well, one, you have to go into a lab for that blood draw. For some people, that's fine. But, you know, like my wife would never find the time to go into a lab. Me neither. I'm at the office all day, every day. That doesn't work with either of our lifestyle. So there's that. If you're looking for just a general assessment of your health, your health status, your current health status, and then I guess your

Starting point is 00:32:34 health status six months down the line, function's a great solution. They're looking at a lot of biomarkers. It's certainly better than going to your primary care physician and asking for a full panel. but where Jevity is different is we're sort of an end-to-end solution. So it doesn't stop at the blood work. With function, it kind of stops at the blood work. We're going to use this blood work to create a care plan for the individual geared towards longevity and really walk through that process with the individual. It's a journey that does not stop at blood work. And so of course, we're going to look at all the biomarkers. We're going to sit down with you and we're going to review that with you. And when I say sit down, this is virtual through your application. And we're going to create a protocol geared towards health optimization and in turn as a byproduct of a longer life. That's what we're getting at. That's Jevity is a play on the word longevity. And we always talk about, well, it starts with health optimization. And as a byproduct of increased health span, that's where you're going to find increased lifespan. And so Jevity is different because we're taking this and we're creating

Starting point is 00:33:40 an actionable plan to go off of. And we're actually walking. through that plan with you. And that looks like, of course, longevity blend, your hormone or peptide therapies, we have functional nutritionists on staff. So we're going to use your blood work, your lifestyle, all of this data to create, you know, meal plan protocols for you, help you on that front. Ooh, I'm excited about that. Really, honestly, it's like a wellness conciergeers in your pocket. Aren't there some biomarkers that you offer that they don't? Yeah, I'm sure. I wouldn't know those off the top of my head. We offer generally, you know, especially with what we have in our marketplace, we have a wide array of things that we're looking at. But our blood work is just as good,

Starting point is 00:34:20 if not a little bit better. And then it doesn't stop at the blood work with us. Yeah, one interesting thing that you guys do is that you allow people to upload other tests or labs or information that they have. So if you are wearing wearables, like an aura ring, you can be submitting that data to your health team, right? Or if you've done a Dutch test before, like, you know, semi-recently, right before you sign it for Jevity, then you can add that data into there, into there. So your whole health concierge there has access to it and can use that in your assessment. They don't only have to go by what Jevity did, which is very cool. Exactly. It's encouraged. We want all of it. We want the full health context, your full health history. We want your

Starting point is 00:34:58 past labs if you want to provide those. You raise a good point. I'm wearing my aura ring. And all of this data is feeding back to my wellness provider at Jevity. So they can know, what does my sleep patterns look like. What is my heart rate variability? These are key metrics that are important to track. I mean, sleep is just critical as it pertains to longevity. Heart rate variability, there's correlations between a longer life and a good heart rate variability. And it's not just our care team as well. We're using some really sophisticated technology to make sense of all of this data. It's hard to sit down, assess 100 or so biomarkers across various physiological systems, make sense of all of this data, cross-reference that with clinical protocol, cross-reference that with the cutting-edge longevity

Starting point is 00:35:43 science out there, take into account things like wearable metrics, and use this information to develop a care plan custom to the individual. I'm not saying it's impossible. It's just hard and lengthy. It takes a lot of time to do so. We know that because we do it on a daily basis. So we've built in our building continuously a really sophisticated AI machine learning model that takes all of this health data and better than humanly possible makes sense of it, which is really, really cool. There's only so many, you know, Dr. Coles to go around, right? It'd be so cool to take him and clone him and put him in every practice across the country and our world would be better for it. So weird you bring him up because I just filmed another interview before you and she also brought

Starting point is 00:36:29 him up and how he like saved her life. Yeah. So everybody's talking about Dr. Cole lately. Because he's somebody who is doing it well and he's doing it right. And, you know, just like any profession. There's a, there's a spectrum in terms of skill set. And, you know, he's obviously on the more exceptional side of that, of that spectrum. But there's only so many of him to go around. And you can't clone him. And unfortunately, just, just like there's the exceptional side of the spectrum, there's exceptionally poor physicians out there as well. And that's why it's important to do your own due diligence before you go and get care from anybody. What we're doing is we're taking the wisdom and knowledge from the best in the world and essentially putting it into our AI and

Starting point is 00:37:12 machine learning model. So we don't have to clone Dr. Cole. We can provide just as good outputs at scale. But what this allows us to do is do it quicker, do it better, see more people, make longevity accessible. That's our mission. Moms, did you know that mouth breathing could be silently affecting your child's health in ways that you might not even realize. From chronic congestion to restless sleep and even ADHD-like symptoms, it's all linked to a hidden epidemic

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Starting point is 00:38:43 some membership. This sounds nuts to me. I'm just going to go to Lab Corp, and I'm going to have them do individually all of these different tests and lab work. How much would they pay? Oh, north of $2,500. Okay. That's exactly what I thought. And even if insurance would cover some of it, they'd only cover $5 to $700 of it because, again, we're talking about proactive and preventative care here. insurance doesn't want to touch it, which doesn't make too much sense to me, but it's all part of this big profit generating, big pharma, Western medicine machine. But what's really cool is that's not an extra cost at Jevity. That's included in the membership. So essentially, twice a year, you're getting a $2,500 plus panel at no added cost. It's just built into your membership. And which states is Jevity available in?

Starting point is 00:39:30 So currently we're available in 12 states. By the time this is aired, we're going to be in 29 different states and we are actively working to get in all 50. And you can see which states those are on your all's website, gogevity.com. And you can also use my discount code for 20% off your first month, which is Alex at gogevity.com. And you can cancel anytime, right? You're young, you're super into all things health and wellness. You have a young family. You have two little kids. What are some fun, regular health and wellness types of things that your family is into, just like on your day-to-day routine. Walking, essentially, it's just so fun that I live in a tremendous neighborhood. For example, there's a farm. And so, you know, my two and a half-year-old, he loves every day, he's like, let's go look at

Starting point is 00:40:18 the chickens because there's a chicken coop there. And, you know, getting outside, being active, being present with the family, but also getting our steps in. I mean, we're knocking out easily on a daily basis 10 to 15,000 steps a day. I'm balancing this business and trying to grow this business and make longevity accessible to all. What I'm doing pales in comparison to what she's doing. She's trying to, you know, wrangle in a two and a half year old. And while she's, you know, fully present with now a four-week old, this is a product for the busy moms out there that simply, one, they don't know where to start. That's what I liked about this because that's the thing like, what supplements do I take? What labs do I need to be asking for? Where do I?

Starting point is 00:40:58 I get a Dutch test? Like I'm confused. How do I even find a functional medicine doctor? This is really your one-stop shop for all of it. And actually it's all can just, it can all happen in your home, which is incredible. And the care gets better over time. Again, like not to lose people with the AI and machine learning, but this technology allows us to actually enhance the care and become predictive. We're getting to a place where our technology is becoming so good. And we're going to roll this out later this year where according to our care plan that we generate for you guys, Our team of experts come together, paired with AI and machine learning to make, we're going to be able to accurately depict what your biomarkers and biological age and these things will look like six months from now. And technology has gotten us to a place where we're able to do it, where the stars have aligned in many ways. One being, we're at this sort of convergence between cutting-edge technology and longevity science.

Starting point is 00:41:52 Another way the stars have aligned is we have an administration who is actually interested in bettering the health of America. So I think this is God's blessing on our country that all of this stuff is coming to a head where we have amazing technology that can actually extend a lifespan paired with cutting-edge longevity science, paired with an administration who wants to promote these things. Yeah. We feel blessed every day that devity is, you know, a voice in this space and, you know, the mission that we're promoting is, is in an administration that actually has our best interest where we didn't have that previously. If you could give one remedy, Nate, to heal a sick culture and it could be physically, mentally, or spiritually, what would it be? I think that

Starting point is 00:42:36 trusting in God's provision is everything. I think you have to. You know, so often I find myself trying to grab onto things so tight that I end up strangling the life out of things, whether it's business, whether it's relationships, not literally. His wife is like, wait. But, you know, it's like when you let go, when you let go, that's when you can notice God's blessing. That's when you can make room to see what he has in store for you in your life. And that's the way I try to live my life. And that's the way I try to lead our company. That's the way I try to lead our household. And I've noticed in my life, it's the moments when I try to hold on too tight when things feel like they're falling apart, which sounds counterintuitive.

Starting point is 00:43:23 But I guess that would be my remedy. Just let go and trust in God's. provision. Where can people go sign up for Jevity? Gogevity.com. That's G-E-V-I-T-I. It's a play on the word longevity. We put an eye at the end of it. It's fancy. And of course, you have a code. People can skip the wait list. The wait list is growing. We're trying to get to a place where we can essentially have no more wait list. That's our goal. So we're taking on, you know, people, we're in waves, but we're staffing up our team so we can support everybody. Yeah. So there is literally a wait list. Like, I mean, he's telling the truth with that because these people have to be able to have time to meet with all the

Starting point is 00:44:01 people that have a membership and go over their labs and all that. So it takes a minute. But with your code, they can skip it. Gogevity.com. You know, my name is Nate Gravill. You can find me on social media. LinkedIn, Nate Gravill. Cool. Thank you so much for you and the company believing in our mission on culture apothecary. And I love getting to be a partner with you guys. And I love what you're doing. And, you know, all of our different values aligning. It's just, it's, it's. incredible and I'm very, very picky about different companies that I put in front of my audience, and you guys just immediately seem like such a great fit, and it's been great so far.

Starting point is 00:44:36 So I'll be updating everybody on Instagram at Real Alex Clark once we go over my labs and we'll see how horrible I've been doing, or maybe not horrible, I don't know. So we'll find out. Thank you so much, Nate, for coming on. Thank you. Wild is it that Nate and I both go to the same church. I seriously had no idea until this interview. If this interview helped you understand more about biomarker testing and cleared up,

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark - How to Test Your Biomarkers & Why Your Doc Isn't Doing It | Geviti Founder Nate Graville

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