@RussellShaw_MLS Yikes! Generally like to stop at the first strike, but he went for all three!
Had no idea anaphylaxis could come back after settling. Never experienced one personally, but sounds scary as hell.
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One of our earliest beta testers included Hemo in his top macOS app picks for 2026.
Grateful to be mentioned alongside so many great products.
Thanks, @vDerekS, for the support, thoughtful feedback, and ideas that have helped make Hemo better along the way.
Introducing Health Snapshot in Hemo.
The snapshot is useful because it highlights the most meaningful trends across all your data. And it stays up to date with each new upload of lab work.
Automatically.
From what happened this test to what's happened over the last couple years.
v1.0 available now in beta.
The most misunderstood number in all of medicine is the one many doctors call normal.
Your labs come back, everything sits inside the reference range, nobody says a word, and you walk out believing you're healthy. But normal and healthy were never the same thing.
I spent years in the clinical laboratory building and running these reference ranges. Let me show you exactly where normal comes from, why it's a far softer number than you think, and the difference between normal, optimal, and the territory where you're quietly sliding toward a diagnosis.
This will change how you read every lab report you ever get again.
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It’s very common. A lot of docs don’t even think about it. When you learn how a lab creates “normal” you’ll want to be anything but.
There’s a few options out there where companies give you the ability to upload your reports from other labs into a database that interprets the values and displays them in an optimal format and helps you track trends over time before they become a diagnosis.
Had the opportunity to speak with one of the developers of such a system recently. @SurrealBlend is building https://t.co/4JCDpesHwK or @tryhemo - he left a job at Microsoft to build something that had a personal interest to him after he got a CAC score done and was introduced to a true need in the market.
Keep an eye out. He’s doing it right.
Fruits & vegetables likely account for a majority of people's dietary microplastic and PFAS intake.
What’s frustrating is that this isn’t something you can just rinse off. In many cases, the contamination appears to be taken up into the food itself.
Organic may reduce some of that exposure, but even organic farms can be affected when they’re near contaminated land or water.
Should you stop eating produce? No. We should be much more upset about how widespread these chemicals have become, especially when children are being exposed through foods we otherwise consider healthy.
One practical thing I think is worth considering is beta-glucan. There’s some evidence it may help support the excretion of PFAS, and given how unavoidable these exposures are becoming, that may be a useful tool, especially for families who can’t realistically eliminate every source.
Last year, at 34, I found out I had a CAC score of 213.
That means I had visible, calcified plaque in the arteries around my heart.
I ranked in roughly the 94th percentile for my age.
I wasn’t obese. I wasn’t eating fast food every day. I wasn’t ignoring my health.
I lifted. I ran my first half marathon. I ate well. I tracked bloodwork. I worked with a doctor. By most external measures, I looked like someone who was on top of things.
But that wasn’t always my story.
For much of my teens and twenties, I struggled with weight, stress, alcohol, poor sleep, and the usual bad decisions you assume you can outrun later.
And for a while, it seemed like I had.
I got the scan expecting a 0.
I thought it would be reassurance.
Instead, it changed the entire direction of my life.
Here’s the story behind why I dove head-first into building Hemo…