ER Doctor Reveals the Labs Your Regular Doctor Never Orders

About this episode

Dr. Poonam Desai discusses proactive health measures and overlooked medical tests that can prevent diseases.

You think you are healthy. Dr. Poonam Desai is here to prove you wrong. Dr. Desai is a former emergency medicine physician turned longevity doctor who spent years watching people end up in the ER from conditions that were completely preventable. Now she is on a mission to help you get ahead of disease before it starts. In this episode of Biohack-it, we go deep on the decade-by-decade blueprint for proactive health, why South Asian genetics create a unique risk profile most doctors overlook, and the single blood test that changed Dr. Desai's life after decades of unexplained fatigue. We cover: Why BMI is a useless metric and what to track instead The visceral fat and insulin resistance risk that hits South Asians harder Why low ferritin (iron) is silently destroying your energy, focus, and mood The Vitamin D mistake that can clog your arteries if you take it wrong Fertility timelines your OB probably never told you about Why sleep beats every supplement, biohack, and peptide on the market The fiber gap: why 95% of Americans are deficient and how to fix it fast How your morning coffee could be the most toxic thing in your routine Building your children's gut microbiome before they…

People in this episode

Host: Iman Hasan

Guest: Dr. Poonam Desai

Topics covered

• proactive health
• South Asian genetics
• preventable diseases
• blood tests
• nutrition
• longevity

Keywords

• health
• longevity
• blood test
• BMI
• insulin resistance
• Vitamin D
• gut microbiome
• ferritin
• sleep
• nutrition

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Organizations: Biohack-it

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