Prenuvo full body scan in Houston can detect 500 conditions, Chief Medical Officer explains

Prenuvo has arrived in Houston as a new opportunity for people to be an advocate for their own health in the form of a bull body scan that can detect 500 conditions. FOX 26 anchor Melissa Wilson has more details on the scan and spoke with Chief Medical Officer Dan Durand.
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[@boranykyle3358]

How much money?

[@aliciastar7777]

$999 - $2,500

[@annnabelle2238]

It’s giving Theranos vibes

[@LauraB.335]

I’d want to know what you can see and what you can’t. I love that this is available. What I don’t like is that it’s so expensive and that it often wont be covered by insurance. This would be great if the medical and insurance industries actually focus on early detection and/or prevention, so that people could get it free for certain age groups or something, and not after the fact!
For example, can you tell if certain arteries are clogged? Can you tell how much visceral fat you have? If you have fatty liver? There are so many things that are early signs of other possible future issues (lots of visceral fat or fatty liver is a warning sign to start eating fewer carbs less often and exercising).
Of course, given that around 93% of American adults are metabolically unhealthy with all sorts of issues (obesity, type 2, cancer, autoimmune, visceral fat. anxiety, depression, IBD, HBP, CVD, etc), and given that many of the symptoms can be improved and even reversed by changing diet and exercising, maybe we ought to just do those things and not worry about a scan.

[@jenniferbethparishwhite688]

$999-$2500. Yeah, okay, so NOT anyone can walk in and get a scan. Only those who can afford it out of pocket.

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

What is the cost? I am in fact sick, and I cannot find sound medical care in houston. I have too many symptoms that could be several things, and doctors tend to diagnose relative to their field, and ignore the possibility they are mistaken.

[@hdskl2150]

Very cool

[@empiricalscout4537]

$2500 for a full body scan

[@ZackryRose]

And I bet insurance won’t cover it. Unless you got some top notch coverage.

[@hdskl2150]

Worth it

[@trinasyoutube]

How much does it cost & you can get it without a doctor’s order?

[@Kitty8791]

Obviously, that's the whole scam. Direct-to-consumer & likely pay out-of-pocket as it's not deemed medically necessary. That's why you're supposed to see your primary care doctor annually & have appropriate screening performed when you're at greatest risk (e.g. mammograms at 40yo & colonoscopy at 50yo, though possibly younger depending on family history). There will be false positives from performing tests when not indicated, i.e. when there is low probability of having a disease or if the disease is not very prevalent in a particular population. This can lead to misdiagnosis & unnecessary stress/anxiety, as well as surgeries & treatments that may be harmful. However, if you're rich & like throwing out money, aren't claustrophobic & can tolerate lying still in the MRI machine for long periods, while doing extensive breath holds (if not, image quality will suffer, i.e. make the test fairly useless) then by all means. However, who will read/interpret the images? Then do they refer you to their own "experts?" 🧐

[@trvrboggs]

It’s makes you “proud”, as well as absorbent amounts of money too 🤦🏾‍♂️…

[@k7aya]

Before asking how much money ASK HOW MUCH RADIATION!!!

[@amr501]

No radiation

[@Kitty8791]

It's an MRI = magnetic resonance imaging. I was going to try to explain the physics behind it, but now that you know what method they're using you can go read about it at an appropriate level.

[@JoseJimenez-gz8ln]

WOULD YOU SCAN YOURSELF ???