Brain health is personal. Knowing more can help.

Having suffered numerous concussions and have Alzheimers on both side of my family, Function offered me the opportunity to test my own biomarkers. Medical insurance and our health care system is broken and it would have taken me years of proving "declining" health to get access to these tests via our traditional health care system. Although the additional cost was significant, the ability to get brain specific blood tests allows me to act proactively about my health instead of waiting for decline to act when it was likely too late. That is an investment I'm willing to make and has brought me and my loved ones a sense of peace knowing where I stand now with my brain health and now to continue to monitor it. Worth every penny to able to be proactive instead of reactive.

I've lived with this body for 57 years and what's beneath the surface has been a complete mystery to me, with the exception of standard tests ordered by doctors at various life milestones. My mother had Alzheimer's and my father had Parkinson's and while I was afraid getting tested would reveal something devastating, the 'not knowing' was starting to get to me. While my results show there are some things I need to address (Function covers them in detail), I'm very optimistic that my next round of tests in six months will show improvement, and continue to for years to come.

Both of my parents suffered from Alzheimer’s and heart disease. At 40 years old I wanted insights of how I could prevent my children dealing with the same challenges. It’s also greatly reduced my medical anxiety because I don’t have as much fear of the unknown.