Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334

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Today's show:

Your doctor almost certainly isn't testing your insulin. Dr. Mark Hyman sits down with Jason to explain the broken system that Function is fixing, and what 100 million biomarkers say about how sick America actually is.

Learn why insulin beats blood sugar as an early warning for TKTKTK. Why might "normal" lab ranges be unreliable? PLUS, how does an expert like Dr. Hyman feel about GLP-1s and psychedelics?

Guests:

Dr. Mark Hyman on X: x.com/drmarkhyman

Function: functionhealth.com

Relevant Links:

The Dr. Hyman Show — podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-hyman-sho…

Function pricing — functionhealth.com/pricing

Ezra — the full-body MRI company Function acquired ezra.com

Galleri (GRAIL) — the multi-cancer early detection blood test — galleri.com

Tufts / JACC study — the source of the "93% of Americans have metabolic dysfunction" — now.tufts.edu/2022/07/05/only-7-american-adult…

American College of Cardiology — acc.org

Dr. Jorge Plutzky — health.harvard.edu/authors/jorge-plutzky-md

OpenEvidence — openevidence.com

Stanford Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic — med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/11/metabol…

Stanford Medicine on the ibogaine findings → med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/01/ibogain…

Texas SB 2308 — the $50M state investment in ibogaine trials — texastribune.org/2026/03/31/texas-ibogaine-res…

Timestamps:

0:00 What Function actually is

6:43 Healthspan vs. sick care

10:16 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Your first app is free! Get started today at Odoo.com/twist

11:32 A $300 vitamin D test vs. a $10 one

18:08 Should a 25-year-old get a whole-body MRI?

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24:23 Why medicine is still running on paper

25:41 The study where the chatbot beat the doctors

27:02 micro1, doctors in the loop, and why AI still needs guardrails

28:50 Wearables, records, and the CD-ROM problem

30:07 Rippling - Thanks to our partners at Rippling! Head to Rippling.ai/twist and get the only AI built to give you full visibility across your startup and take complex actions across your entire business.

32:51 The wearable that caught Jason's Covid

34:31 Alcohol, sugar, and why almost nobody tests your insulin

40:00 GLP-1s: Jason's 213-to-168 story

42:22 Microdosing GLP-1s, muscle loss, and "skinny fat"

48:48 Overdiagnosing mental illness: SSRIs, Adderall, and a lost decade

50:17 The biology underneath depression and anxiety

54:32 Psychedelics: ketamine, ibogaine, and the second revolution in psychiatry

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