Matt Martin
@MattBMartin
Cofounder @PreciseHlthRpt to make heart disease a rare disease. Professionally curious. Used to do cool Army stuff. ENTJ. ⛩🇺🇸 #BEATnavy
I've been reading the @startuphealth company profiles for several years. It's cool/weird to see our story hit this week. healthtransformer.co/precision-heal…
Colleges sports should decouple from colleges—become clubs.
What unpopular opinion can put you in this position??
Going to a gym with group sessions and a coach programmed plan is significantly sticker and effective than “I’ll make my plan.”
Hit me with one harsh truth you've accepted so far as a man.
I recently saw a patient with a serious infection. I prescribed the only effective oral antibiotic, but her insurance denied it. She’s still sick and is now at risk for sepsis. This is daily life for Americans. Meanwhile, the head of HHS is focused on the color of Froot Loops.
Froot Loops is finally following its nose — toward common sense. Thanks to the many parents who spoke out and pressured @KelloggsUS to remove harmful food dyes from its products. I urge more companies to step up and join the movement to Make America Healthy Again.
“Sam” Sturgill Simpson “Maggie’s Song” Chris Stapleton 🐶🌈🥹
what’s the saddest song you know
Lab results aren’t good enough for personalized healthcare decision making.
Have you ever had an upper body workout so hard that afterward you were jealous of people without arms?
That was a weird day to be a 9 year old.
In 1986, school children across the nation were required to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. 90 seconds later, it exploded. A teacher was one of the dead. Children didn't get counseling. School didn't close. Kids just went to their next class.
I go to bed at a reasonable hour so I can get up early every morning to lift heavy circles. And I hang out with my dogs.
People who don’t smoke or drink, what do you do?
Damn. I remember watching the coverage of Felix Baumgartner's jump for hours. The calm ascent, the checklist, the telemetry, etc. Joseph Kittinger, who previously had the record, was an amazing 'captain' running the operation from the ground.
Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the stratosphere in 2012, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. He was 56
I'm not the best at going to the doctor regularly (I'm a guy 🤷♂️). But I was due for a chronic med prescription renewal. I usually just have my cofounder @Lipoprotein do a quick review with me and send the renewal in for another year. This time, after listening to @tjparker on…
The Food Pyramid hasn't been a thing since 2011.
“We are going to have dietary guidelines that are based on science, not based on medical dogma.” —@DrMakaryFDA
If you have ever wondered if longevity influencers make their stats up, the answer is 'yes'.
5 minutes in a sauna 4x/week reduces cardiovascular risk by 50%
"If your risk assessment doesn’t include ApoB and Lp(a), you’re not seeing the full picture." BOOM! 💣 Our Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment not only includes ApoB and Lp(a), it also integrates other outcome-proven biomarkers, adjusts for the individual person's clinical history,…
☝️No estimate of the apoB lipoprotein-related risk of CVD is complete without measurement of both apoB and Lp(a) ApoB is the true core marker of atherogenic particle burden, and Lp(a) is an independent, non-negotiable player in cardiovascular risk. ✅ ApoB reflects the number…
Can you get heart disease without inflammation?? What is the relationship between them?
The founder of the startup (TrialCard) that I joined after leaving the Army said this was the reason he hired junior military officers (JMOs). He said, "JMOs aren't afraid to figure it out. You work well off of intent, always have backup plans, take feedback well (especially…
Major career cheat code: Be the person who can figure it out. You’ll be handed tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask key questions. Get it done. If you do that, people will fight over you.
Cardiovascular disease isn't an "old person" disease. And the basic labs that your insurance covers for your doctor to use for your annual physical in your 30s and 40s is insufficient.
What’s one piece of life advice you believe that would have people doing this?
someone asked me last weekend, "How does Army Football compete with NIL since they can't offer it?" my response? "We don't have to honestly." Let me explain -average NIL deal is ~$40K with 50% of guys making less than $1K - West Point (the Army) pays you a stipend that is…
I finally got the time to digest this podcast last weekend--GREAT episode! One of my favorite learnings from watching PillPack's early days was that you can "just do stuff" and usually it works (even if it's a lot of manual effort on the backend). Give it a listen!
@tjparker shares how @PillPack took on the PBMs (and won) It’s a story about refusing to play by broken rules and what it takes to build something better in a system designed to favor the incumbents. Tune in 👇
🔥 Hot take: Healthcare pricing should be based on quality of care—not revenue equivalents like RVUs. I’d gladly stack our clinic’s outcomes against any regional/local average. Why are we rewarding low-value care just because it racks up billable units? No functioning market…
Top 5 CFB Players I’ve ever seen live: 1. Steve Atwater 2 Randy Moss 3. Ryan Mallet 4. Donovan McNabb 5. Ronnie McAda (Army football legend 😬)
Top 5 CFB Players I’ve ever seen live 1. Ndamukong Suh 2. RGIII 3. Fred Warner 4. Brock Purdy 5. Jared Verse I am sure I am missing some big names, but this is pure memory