Prenuvo
This post is a follow up post from my dad’s Prenuvo treatment done a few weeks ago. Make sure to read part one of the Prenuvo treatment experience to get the most out of this post! To backtrack, Prenuvo is the newest preventative health screening craze. Prenuvo scans patients through a non-radiating, non-invasive MRI machine. It’s designed to uncover a wide range of conditions such as:
- Cancer
- Tumors
- Aneurysms
- Organ health conditions
- Spinal conditions
- Cysts, Fibroids or abnormal growths
My dad is nearly 70 and so we just wanted to check his overall health condition. It took about a week after my dad’s prenuvo scan to get the results! And I must say, we were stumped by some of the findings…
First Surprising Finding – A Chronica Small Vessel Ischemia
The finding of a chronic small vessel ischemia in the periventricular white matter of the brain was initially alarming to read. However, it’s listed as a “minor finding”. It turns out, this is a common finding in people over 60 years old. Small vessel ischemia refers to impaired blood flow in the small arteries of the brain. Overtime this can cause tiny areas of damage to the white matter. It’s a common age-related brain change. Of course it’s still something we will keep an eye on for any changes in my dad’s memory or overall mental health. For now, the finding of something hopefully small and common gave us peace of mind that there wasn’t an imminent danger lingering neurovascularly.
Second Surprising Finding – Healthy Heart
Now, I know it’s weird to be shocked at good news but we were! My dad has high blood pressure and has been told by several doctors who analyzed his ekg that his heart was enlarged. However, through the prenuvo scan, there were no abnormalities detected in his heart. We’ve also had some family members have heart conditions (like my dad’s mother) so it was comforting to hear that, atleast through the scan, his heart looked fine.
Third Surprising Finding – Unknown artifact in the leg??
So probably the most confusing finding was the informational finding that there was an area to his left leg that casted a shadowing in the MRI scan. This could be that something is imbedded in the body like metal, glass, a clip or an old injury site located in the soft tissue. However, my dad has no recollection of an injury to his leg, has no scar on the leg and has never had surgery to his leg so this finding remains a mystery. It’s interesting though because the reason why he decided to do the prenuvo was because he was having intense bilateral calf pain. The Prenuvo unfortunately cannot uncover clots in the arteries but we wanted to see if there were any other findings that could explain the pain. Not sure if this explains it but he will be delving deeper into this mysterious artifact with his primary physician.
Was Prenuvo Worth it?
For my dad I know he 100% loved the prenuvo process! Everyone was friendly and it was a painless, easy procedure to do with a bonus of providing an array of information about your body. And as someone who likes to be ahead of my health, it was nice to see that my dad didn’t have major findings that were alarming. The unknown to me is often scarier than facing the truth so these results definitely made the family sleep easier at night. Though it is a hefty $2500 and that’s just not realistic for many people, I do hope that insurance will start to cover these preventative treatments. I could write a novel about what I think is wrong with western medicine but the biggest issue tends to be that hospitals lean towards fixing or maintaining conditions rather than preventing them. With prenuvo and the several other preventative MRI scans coming out, I hope we move into a new era of reducing our mortality rates by increasing our preventative care. Watching my dad do this has absolutely inspired me to do it next! Will keep you all updated once I do!
Also Read: Gifting My Dad a Prenuvo Treatment: The Full Body MRI Scan Review
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