New interest in preventative medicine

• Traditional diagnostics probe for disease, not health
• Should “health” only be assessed by the absence of disease?

Personal approaches

• Diet, lifestyle, exercise, and nutritional supplements impact health

New ways to check health

• Not just blood pressure, cholesterol level, mammogram, etc

Tests for risk indicators – altered by genetics, diet & lifestyle

• Oxidative stress & Antioxidant activity
• Inflammatory status

Several well-established tests for these indicators

• Don’t diagnose specific diseases
• Don’t fit current laboratory / FDA / insurance paradigms
• Not readily accessible to clinicians