Posted On: 8/10/2022
What is Preventative Care?
Introduction
When it comes to your body, get proactive about preventative care.
AimCheck’s mission is to give more people access to proactive preventative care through affordable blood testing. Question: What is preventative care? Read on to find out!
If you’re on this website, reading about preventative care, then congrats: you have a body! Your body is your primary way of living in the world. Your body is the portal through which you process nutrients, move around, and feel the sun on your face. I know that I, for one, am grateful for everything my body does for me.
However, like you, there are times when my body doesn't seem to be functioning to its full potential. Maybe you’re feeling like you’re not fully digesting food; perhaps it’s wintertime, so you’re moving more slowly. Maybe you’re suffering from long COVID, and things are different from how they’ve ever been before.
Maybe nothing is particularly wrong, but you have dreams - of running a marathon, having a baby, doing a high-altitude mountain climb.
No matter your goals, one thing is sure: with AimCheck and a focus on preventative care, you have the power to take responsibility for your health.
Wh n you learn what’s up in your gut, you’re getting the info to find the tools to understand your body. Taking responsibility for your body with regular check-ins is the first step to taking care of your health. It makes sure you’re ready to handle anything the world throws your way.
This is preventative care.
Preventative Care: Your Body’s Map
Preventative care is about taking diagnostic, medical, and physical actions to understand your body, and arm your bodily systems so they can fight whatever comes up. This includes your annual check-ups, immunizations, and the like. When you understand your body at the baseline level, you can better choose the healing modality that suits you and your lifestyle.
All of our bodies are different: they all have different needs, and function best at different hours of the day, with different levels of nutrients. Understanding your body’s needs is key to living to your fullest potential of health.
When you get tested, you’re making a map of your body, and knowledge is your compass to navigate around your internal systems. Armed with this knowledge, you’ll never get lost in the maze of medical testing: instead, you’ll be empowered to ask for what you need from the right places, and be prepared if any roadblocks block your way.
Routine vs. Proactive
Preventative care as currently understood in the USA’s healthcare landscape is divided into two different options. The first includes “routine care,” such as immunizations, doctors visits, and the most basic of blood testing. This sort of routine care is important for overall health, and is standard in many places.
However, what insurances usually don’t cover is proactive health. This is the preventative healthcare that goes above and beyond routine immunizations: instead, it encourages you to take a deep look at the state of your body in order to course-correct lifestyle choices for a better, healthier, longer-living you.
In fact, insurance companies are incentivized to not give you preventative care. Unfortunately, it’s cheaper for insurance companies to cover things like cancer and end-of-life treatments than it is for them to pay for ongoing preventative care visits. Thus, they don’t pay for extensive preventative care diagnostics and learning, which keeps people stuck in cycles of bad health choices.
If insurance companies were incentivized around health instead of profit, they’d be focused on proactive preventative care, not only getting cheaper end-of-life treatment options. When the focus is put on proactive preventative care, you and your loved ones live happier, healthier, and longer.
Make Preventive Care Proactive
At Aimcheck, we want to empower you to make your preventative care proactive care. This means getting the inside info on your body and using it to make choices about your own health.
At AimCheck, we give you the best prices on the market to get accurate, affordable diagnostic testing. If you’re just learning about your body, choose one of our starter packs to get the full picture. Further down the road to knowledge about your body? Create your own combo of tests and you can get specific info on your body’s needs.
AimCheck is not a diagnostic service: we want you to get tested, and take the power into your own hands. Once you have results, we encourage you to take them to the care provider orf your choice. Whether you focus on traditional, alternative, or other methods of medicine, your blood results will help you and your care provider get the correct information in order to tailor your care exactly to your needs.
When you make your preventative care proactive, you’re taking radical responsibility of your own health. When you bring your results to your medical and healthcare professional of your choice, they’ll help you figure out the best path to care. We’re on a mission to teach you tools to understand your own body at affordable, everyday prices. To make preventative care proactive care. So you know what’s up in your gut, every single day.