Translating the body's mechanisms into action
Health science has evolved to a point where we understand how the body works. The challenge now is translating that understanding into personalized action for patients, says Alexander Tsiaras, an author and CEO of TheVisualMD.com.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] We can show you the magic of how your body works. We can show you the dangers of when things go wrong.
We can show you pathways back to health. The next thing is allowing you to take these kinds of things and have personalized programs.
We're basically, trying to understand how the human body works from the molecular to the gross anatomy. And now we have all of these tools,
but no one's life has ever been changed by a pie chart. As they say, you must make that data become someone that you
respect or admire or love. And then, all of a sudden, it has impact. For example, we just scanned the highest resolution neurons ever
acquired. The ability to actually see corticosteroids from chronic stress, depression as well, just basically erodes
what they call the small dendritic ends, showing you that this just basically melts your brain.
You can see, this is normal and robust and beautiful. And this one looks like it's in an ashtray.
And that kind of visualization process when you say this kind of behavior, this kind of smoking, this kind of stress, this kind of activity.
For example, we're doing a very big thing on exercise and everyone's always thinking about exercise and relationship.
I'm going to feel strong. I'm going to feel a little bit better. I'm going to lose some weight. The reality is there are so many other things going on
from exercise. There's a molecule that we are rendering that's called BDNF-- Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor--
where that molecule is called Miracle-Gro for the brain. And one of the only thing that makes it is exercise.
So if you want to grow new neurons, if you want your brain to be optimized for learning, the one number one thing for it is exercise.
One of the number one things for staving off Alzheimer's, exercise. One of the number one things for increasing your HDL,
which basically improves your quality of your life significantly, is exercise. And so we're actually showing you
how every one of these molecules affects every part of your life. So that when you take action, you know that this is not this kind of like well,
generally, I know. No, even at the molecular level. It's very cool to see my brain being
built back up from this molecule from my walk or run or bicycle. It's very cool. And that allows people to understand,
as they've been saying for many, many years, that this is being quantified in their body by their body by these actions. And they know there's results.
If we can show you the marvel of how your body works and how you can control it from a biological perspective,
and then once we've done those two things as an artist, we want to make it beautiful. That beauty engages a person, which
allows them to empower themselves with educating themself on what's going on. The visualization process is a process
of acquiring many different kinds of data from many different kinds of sources depending on what level you're looking at.
Meaning, are we looking at the molecular? Are we looking at the cellular? Are we looking at tissue or organ level?
Are we looking at systems or are we looking at the whole body? What happens is that we get all of this kind of information in and we compile it.
And what we do is we write algorithms as pieces of my tissue here have a certain kind of consistency.
The tendons and the muscles underneath will have a certain kind of consistency. Sometimes that happens when the pathology gets in there, it's not consistent with those others
and the computer is trained to find those in our algorithms. And that's where we can actually say oops,
you've got a problem here. Then we can actually say, are we going to surgery? Are we going to radiation? Are we going to do chemo?
Depending what kind of category it's in are, we going to do angioplasty? Any one of the kinds of treatments is basically being able to use this kind of imaging
to figure out how bad or how well you are. [AUDIO LOGO]
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