Ep 37: Predicting Menopause: How Life Ahead Is Transforming Women’s Health with Science & Data
Release Date: 08/12/2025
Ep 56: How At-Home Lab Testing Works (Behind the Kit)
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At-home diagnostics isn’t “a kit.” It’s an operating system. From the outside, it looks simple: order → kit arrives → collect → mail back. Behind the scenes, scaling that experience requires automation, reliability, and speed. In this conversation, Jeff Shattuck explains how DOT Corp uses automation, robotics, and AI to reduce the time from order to shipment, expanding what’s possible for home diagnostics and precision medicine. Key moments DotCorp transitioned from printing to healthcare logistics. AI and robotics are streamlining healthcare processes. At-home testing is...
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Ep 55: Stigma is a barrier. At-home testing breaks it. HIV + STI Testing.
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Show Notes Healthcare keeps talking about AI, affordability, and outcomes… But most systems are still ignoring the front door that drives care decisions: diagnostics. Recorded In the Wild at HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, Bradley Bostic sits down with James York (Chief Commercial Officer + Head of Government Affairs, Molecular Testing Labs) to unpack a hard truth: If you can’t make testing accessible, convenient, and trackable… you can’t build reliable care pathways. In this episode, James breaks down why diagnostics is a flywheel—the top-of-funnel that activates patients—and why “we...
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Ep 54: The Business of Making Healthcare Data Trustworthy
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Summary Healthcare is racing to be “AI ready.” But most of the industry is still trying to turn billing exhaust into strategy. In this episode, Bradley Bostic sits down with Ryan Leurck, Co-Founder & Chief Analytics Officer at Kythera Labs, to cut through the noise and get blunt about what actually makes AI work in healthcare. Because the truth is simple—and uncomfortable: If your data can’t be trusted by humans, it can’t be trusted by AI. And in healthcare, much of our data was never designed for the questions we’re now demanding it answer. Takeaways Why claims, EHR, and lab...
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Ep 53: Screening for Dementia with AI - Your Brain’s Early Warning System
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Summary By the time most people hear “dementia,” their brain has been sounding the alarm for years. In this episode of Boombostic Health, Dr. John Showalter shares his journey from internist to healthcare technology innovator. He explains how AI and digital tools can support early detection and intervention for cognitive decline—before daily life starts to fall apart. The conversation highlights how lifestyle changes can improve cognitive health, why screening the brain should be as routine as checking blood pressure, and how integrating technology into healthcare systems can scale...
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Ep 52: Mental Health, Cancer, and the Gut Data We’re Not Using
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We talk a lot about “data-driven healthcare,” yet we’re still blind to one of the most important data layers: the microbiome. Mental health, early-onset cancer, autoimmunity—much of that risk is already visible in the gut years before a diagnosis code ever hits the chart. Most care models, benefits designs, and longevity strategies simply don’t account for it. In this episode of Boombostic Health, I sit down with Paul Denslow, CEO & co-founder of Intus Bio, to dig into how GutID turns the microbiome into hard infrastructure: high-resolution gut data, a score you can track, and a...
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Ep 51: AI Can’t Fix Virtual Care’s 70% Lab Problem
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Virtual care is scaling. AI is everywhere. But when lab completion falls from ~70% in-clinic to ~30% in virtual care, the whole model breaks. Virtual Care Without Labs Is Just Zoom - Even with AI. In this Boombostic Health in the Wild episode from HLTH 2025, Bradley Bostic sits down with Maitham Dib, founder of Junction, to unpack the "real" bottleneck: turning lab orders into lab results. They dig into how Junction: * White-labels lab infrastructure so any virtual or hybrid care model can deploy labs across all 50 states * Uses data from ~3.4 million lab...
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Ep 50: 95% of Care From Home: The Virtual Model Changing Healthcare
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Virtual care isn’t a feature. It’s the future care model nobody in healthcare wants to admit is already here. At HLTH 2025, we sat down with Michael Dalton, CEO and founder of Ovatient, to unpack the real story behind why rural and urban patients alike are falling through the cracks and how Ovatient built the first truly integrated virtual multi-specialty practice on Epic. This conversation exposes three uncomfortable truths in healthcare: Access is still broken. Millions delay care because transportation, work schedules, stigma, or geography get in the way. Telemedicine wasn’t...
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Ep 49: The Real Healthcare Disruption Isn’t AI - It’s Your DNA
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AI will accelerate healthcare — but genomics will rewrite it. The minute DNA drives care decisions for everyone, the current system becomes obsolete. Gene by Gene quietly runs one of the most advanced, high-throughput genomics labs in the world — powering platforms like MyHeritage and rapidly transforming clinical medicine, oncology, pharmacogenomics, and ancestry. This conversation explores what happens when every person leaves the hospital with a genomic passport — a lifelong DNA profile they own, control, and use to prevent disease before it begins. This is preventive medicine...
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Ep 48: Time to Treatment Accelerating the Connection to Care
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Pharma Isn’t Broken — Access Is ixlayer x Sanofi Ventures @ HLTH 2025 Patients don’t suffer because we lack medical innovation — they suffer because it takes too long to access it. 🚀 Why This Matters Patients today are consumers — they expect speed, personalization, and access. Pharma, technology, and venture capital are aligning to deliver it. The future of healthcare is collaborative, data-driven, and patient-first. Live from HLTH 2025 in the Diagnostic Zone, we dig into the real barriers between patients and lifesaving therapies. This episode covers: How digital...
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Ep 47: Fixing Prescription Costs with E-Prescribing and Transparency
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Prescription costs are broken — and patients are the ones paying the price. In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Lathe Bigler of First Data Bank to unpack why e-prescribing hasn’t evolved in decades, how opaque pricing keeps patients in the dark, and why the next wave of pharmacy network innovation could flip the power dynamic back to patients. 💡 What We Cover: Why patients are frustrated with rising prescription costs How transparency empowers patients with real choices What most people don’t know about paying cash for prescriptions How...
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What if women could know — years in advance — when perimenopause and menopause will begin?
In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic talks with Nich Gentry and Dr. Lizellen La Follette of Life Ahead, a groundbreaking company combining ultrasound, personalized data, and validated science to give women a clear picture of their reproductive timeline.
You’ll learn:
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Why ovarian aging is the “canary in the coal mine” for overall health.
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How early menopause prediction could transform bone health, cognitive health, and preventive care.
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The science behind Life Ahead’s algorithm — and why it’s a breakthrough for both patients and clinicians.
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Why women’s health research has been historically underfunded and how that’s changing.
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The entrepreneurial challenges of building a science-backed health tech company.
Whether you’re in healthcare, innovation, or simply care about the future of women’s health, this conversation will leave you inspired — and rethinking what’s possible in preventive care.
Listen now to learn how data, science, and proactive healthcare can rewrite the future for millions of women.
Key Moments
00:00 – Why Proactive Healthcare Matters
Shifting from reactive to proactive care in women’s health.
01:14 – Meet Life Ahead
Nich and Dr. Lizellen share their mission to close the women’s health gap.
04:11 – Understanding Ovarian Aging
Why ovaries age faster than most organs and what it means for overall health.
08:16 – Perimenopause Explained
What it is, symptoms, and why timing matters.
10:11 – The Cost of Waiting
How early menopause prediction could save money and improve health outcomes.
12:41 – The Science Behind the Tool
From NSF funding to Yale mathematicians — the breakthrough research journey.
14:43 – The Startup Rollercoaster
Highs, lows, and challenges of building a new category in healthcare.
27:17 – WHOOP, Fitness, and Sleep
Why tracking recovery and lifestyle metrics is part of better healthcare.
30:17 – Looking Ahead
Envisioning the future of women’s health through predictive technology.