Mark Kaplan

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Former ATP pro, world #117. Widowmaker at 52. Zero meds at 58. They blamed my genes. #1 Bestseller a.co/d/068ius13 UNPLUGGED. Founder & CEO neoroot.ai

Stamford, CT neoroot.ai Joined April 2014

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Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20 Apr 12

I had a heart attack at 52.

7 things could have prevented it.

My doctor didn't test a single one.

Not because he's a bad doctor. Because the system that trained him was designed to sell drugs, not save lives.

25 hours of nutrition in 4 years of medical school.
70% of his education funded by pharma.
A $600 billion industry that needs you sick to survive.

Here's what they missed in my checkup.
And what they're missing in yours right now.

Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20 4h

I wanted someone to talk to at 2am after my heart attack. So we built her.

Meet Neo. The world's first root cause digital health human.

She has a face. She looks at you while you speak, and she answers out loud.

She has already read your blood work. She knows your workouts, your sleep and the changes you've made. She speaks your language.

Ask her what your results actually mean. Ask her what to eat tonight. Ask her whether what you're doing is working.

Then she talks to your doctor for you. Your health report arrives ahead of time, with the root cause science behind it.

Not a message that arrives in the morning. A conversation at the hour you actually need it.

She will teach you. She will not prescribe for you.

Six years ago I had Google. On 24 December, you'll have Neo.

Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20 5h

My heart attack was six years ago. When I left the hospital, the only place I had to go was Google.

I was 52. Former pro athlete. Ate clean. Trained every day. LDL of 110. The widowmaker came anyway.

The doctors saved my life. Then they handed me prescriptions and a follow up in three months.

Nobody told me why it happened. Nobody told me what to eat that night. Nobody was there at 2am when the fear showed up.

So I searched. Night after night. Forums, studies, strangers, contradictions. I was a scared man trying to find a way to heal naturally with nothing but a search bar.

I found my answers. It took me years.

Most people don't have years.

So we built what I needed that night.

Neo is the world's first root cause digital human. She has a face. She has already read your blood work before you say a word. You talk to her out loud, in your own language, at any hour, and she explains what your numbers actually mean and what to change first.

She tracks everything. Every blood test, every workout, every change you make to how you live.

Before your appointment, she sends your doctor your health report. She has studied the root cause science, so she can talk to your doctor about it.

You walk in and the conversation has already started.

She will teach you. She will not prescribe for you.

Six years ago I had Google.

On 24 December, you'll have Neo.

Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20 5h

I was the fittest patient in the cath lab. So why did no one ask how my body handled sugar?

Sunrise in London. I'm here building Neo in the UK, and the gym is where I think best.

At 52 I had trained my whole life. My cholesterol was "fine." The doctors who saved me were good people, and they did their job well.

But here's the question I still haven't had answered.

If my number was fine and my fitness was elite, what was the test that would have warned me?

Not one person asked about my insulin. Not one asked about the inflammation in my artery wall. The system is built to treat the event, not to find the cause.

I ask people in London about fasting insulin and no-one knows about this. That is about to change in a big with Neo UK launch Jan 2027

Six years later I still train every morning. Zero meds.

Ask your doctor this week: what did my last panel tell you about my metabolism?

Then listen to the answer.

Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20 7h

The truth.

Benjamin Bikman Verified account @BenBikmanPhD 9h

Statins delay death by only a few days, on average, in the trials that tested them.

These drugs are widely prescribed to lower LDL cholesterol and to reduce the chance of a heart attack or stroke. Yet for most people taking them, the absolute benefit is small, and the outcome that matters most, living longer, is where the trial data are thinnest.

A review of 11 large statin trials measured the average delay in death over two to six years of treatment. In people who had not yet had a heart attack or stroke, death was delayed by only a few days. In people who already had heart disease, the median was 4.1 days, and some trials showed slightly shorter survival on the drug. And that is an average, so many people gained nothing at all.

Muscle symptoms are commonly reported by people taking these drugs. In an observational study of people on high-dose statin therapy, about 1 in 10 reported muscle symptoms, and some surveys put that share closer to 1 in 4.

In a large observational study of more than 150,000 postmenopausal women, statin use was linked to a 48% higher risk of developing diabetes. In a two-month controlled trial, atorvastatin raised fasting insulin by 25% to 45%.

A person weighing a few extra days of life against muscle pain and a higher diabetes risk deserves to see those numbers side by side.
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