Your Health is Your ROI: Xavier Serrano on Peak Performance for Busy Entrepreneurs
Welcome back to another episode of the Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Accountant. I am your host, Heidi Henderson, and today's guest is someone who's radically reshaping how we think about health, longevity, and performance, especially for busy professionals and business owners like many of us. I'm thrilled to welcome Xavier Serrano. He is the founder and CEO of Marqi Medical. With over twenty years of experience in health innovation, Xavier is on a mission to help people take proactive control of their health using advanced diagnostics, AI powered insights, and personalized coaching, all with a focus on real, lasting transformation.
Heidi:Xavier's companies Marqi Health and Marqi Medical, they are all on the forefront of personalized preventative care. They help individuals catch life threatening conditions early and optimize for energy, focus, and longevity. His work has directly impacted hundreds of lives through early detection of cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune disease. Today we're talking about how business owners and professionals, especially those of us who sit at a desk for hours every day, can take control of our health using innovative, data driven tools. We'll dive into how longevity, vitality, and peak performance aren't just for elite athletes, but they're accessible to all of us when we know what to look for and how to act on it.
Heidi:Xavier, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you and start this conversation. First off, I want to do this a little bit differently than I have in the past. I want to dive right into marqi medical, which is what your primary role is right now. And I want you to give some background on essentially what it is and what you're offering.
Heidi:And then we're going to go all the way back and start really looking at the why and what's really driven you to where you're at. So with that, tell me a little bit about Marqi Medical. What are we looking at?
Xavier:Yeah. Would love to. And by the way, thank you so much for having me here. I'm delighted to be here. And, we had some great conversations before.
Xavier:I'm really excited to share some, some things with your viewership and audience. So I run a company called Marqi Medical and we help people optimize their health so they can reach their full potential. Know, something that most people don't know is that one in seven healthy individuals have a serious undiagnosed chronic disease and they don't even know it. So what we do is we use advanced testing, smart technology, AI to early detect these problems and create a personalized roadmap to help people live better, longer. You can kind of think of us as, you know, sort of in the cross section of like a like a ultimate health checkup meets concierge.
Xavier:And we wanna we want to hear about, you know, what, what people are driven towards and what their goals are, much like tax planning, and then help develop that plan for them to, reach those goals.
Heidi:I like, I like the correlation between tax planning and then really setting goals for your health. Can you dive a little bit more into how exactly do you do that? You know, what are some of the steps that you do to accomplish that and gathering information, really understanding, and part of that relating to tools available today that maybe we didn't have at our fingertips even just a few years ago.
Xavier:Yeah. You know, we're in a such an like the golden age of healthcare right now. You think about where healthcare was just twenty years ago and where it is today. You have access to the world's knowledge of healthcare, all of these additional tools and resources. The problem is that there's just a huge knowledge gap between what people know and what they perceive as, you know, good health information and what is actually available out out in the marketplace.
Xavier:So what we're doing is we just wanna be a resource for people, and and we're giving away a lot of stuff. You know? So on our website, you can take a free health risk assessment, and figure out what what what your gaps in in health could be. And that's completely free. You know, we're not monetizing that.
Xavier:We just wanna be a trusted resource. We have over a hundred articles that I've written on LinkedIn as well as on our website. And, you know, back to your question of like, what is it? What what do you guys have there that is so groundbreaking? So one of the things that we do is we start out with an AI driven health risk assessment.
Xavier:So really understanding your health risks, your gene modifiers, your family health history, what sort of ailments or pain points that you're seeing and start out with that. Then we're going into your genetics. So we do whole genome sequencing, and that's significantly more than 23andMe. So that's an area that, again, the public is their perception versus reality is completely different. No doctor would ever say that 23andMe is like a medical grade test that you do.
Xavier:It's just kind of a fun thing, and there's all kinds of disclosures. I think they've done a great job of getting genetics out to the marketplace and making it affordable, which is great. But by no means is it medical grade. Whole genome annotates almost 3,000,000,000 base pairs of your DNA, so it's your entire DNA, and it does it 30 times for accuracy. That's something that's not readily available.
Xavier:Very few people know enough about that and genetics and epigenetics, the expression of those genes. So again, we're just trying to educate people, let them know what their health risks are, and then what they can do about it. And if we would just stop there, it's sort of like a crystal ball. Like, maybe I'll have this, maybe I won't. But what we do is we take another step further and we go, okay, let's do some advanced blood work.
Xavier:You know, we have over three fifty different blood tests that we do in our top level program that we look at all these different biomarkers and between the genetics and the blood work gives us another clue. Then we take it another step further and we do advanced imaging, which is whole body MRI, brain scan, CT, a calcium score, body composition, DXA, and bone density. And we put all of this information together along with wearable data, such as a continuous blood glucose monitor, your Apple Watch data. And now we have the most comprehensive program on the planet. And we put all that together with AI along with your health history, And then we can tell you exactly what to do to avoid the risks and tell you exactly what your risks are.
Xavier:And then we put a coach together to help you guide you through this whole process. So I know it's a little long winded, but that's essentially what we do.
Heidi:That's amazing. I mean, I have a hundred questions to ask you about how all this functions. So one question, playing devil's advocate. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. So what would you say to someone who is like, look, I know I need to do better.
Heidi:I'm going to, you know, at some point or at that point, or when things are a little bit better or when it's not tax season or I'm not in the middle of this big project, or you know what, I'll focus on it right now because, or then, because right now I don't have time. You know, I saw some news alerts or articles pop up in recent months. Well, some of those really complex scans might find things that really aren't an issue. Won't be an issue for years. Now this is going to drum up something and then it might create overtreatment and then it might be alarming and you're worried that it's something more than it is.
Heidi:Again, ignorance is bliss. So what would you say to someone if they have that fear or concern that, you know, maybe I don't really want to know that I may be at high risk for something and just live my life and enjoy?
Xavier:Yeah. No, I'm so glad that you asked that. That's probably the number one question and the number one reason for people to want to hesitate to doing a comprehensive analysis like this. And I'll tell you that, you know, one plus one plus one equals 10. So on its own, each one of these modalities absolutely will have some sort of benign or, you know, non high risk, you know, finding, you know, something like that.
Xavier:Right. So, you know, take for example, you know, you find a tumor and it's, and there's nothing going on with it. And it's just totally normal for all of us to have some sort of a tumor in our body that's not growing or anything like that. And you can kind of think of it as like on your face, right? Like if you have something on your face and it's just there and it's not growing, and that's fine.
Xavier:And what's great about your face is you're always looking at it. You know, sometimes your back, your body is a little harder to find. But as long as it's not growing, it's fine. But once it's growing, then it's cause for alarm. Right?
Xavier:But how do you know if it's growing if you're not looking at it? And that's what a full body scan does. So your your point was like, yeah, we don't wanna find something and then cause cause a lot of concern. But when I said that one plus one plus one equals 10 is that we're not just looking at one thing. We're looking at longitudinal data.
Xavier:We're saying, hey. Here's where you were on January in 2024. Here's where you were January 2025. And that moved and significantly grew. That's a cause for alarm.
Xavier:So we didn't do anything about it then. We just noted it, looked at it. Maybe we did a six month because we didn't wanna wait for a year or three months, whatever that time frame is. And then we're also looking at multimodal. So we're also looking at your genetics.
Xavier:We're looking at your family health history. We're looking at your blood work. So all of these things kind of painting a better picture. And the best example of this is, you know, one of our clients, her name's Sally, marathon runner, thirty five years old, perfectly healthy, no known, you know, health conditions. But she her whole family did the program and she's like, alright, I guess I'll do it.
Xavier:So on her blood biomarkers, we found an elevated TSH. And on its own, again, not a big deal. Most doctors would have overlooked it. As a matter of fact, her doctors did. But then we did a DNA analysis and she had an NRAS genetic mutation, which puts her at higher risk for a certain cancer.
Xavier:Like, okay, on its own, again, no big deal. Then we did an MRI, and sure enough, we found a 1.3 centimeter, thyroid nodule. And we said, Hey, you know what? That's alarming. Now we're having several different things.
Xavier:And, someone on her mother's side also had thyroid cancer. Let's take a look at this. And sure enough, we had a biopsy and it turned out to be thyroid cancer. We got it at the earliest stages, stage one. Had it removed.
Xavier:Wasn't a big, huge invasive deal. Didn't have to go through chemo. Didn't have to go through radiation. Didn't have the big scar. You know, we potentially saved this woman's life.
Xavier:She's a family of four children, again, someone who's active, someone you don't typically think of as being a higher risk. So yes, ignorance would have been bliss and maybe she would have cancer and maybe doctors wouldn't have liked us to do an MRI screening on this healthy individual, but we have hundreds of examples on this. And we already know the statistics for, you know, people having elevated health risk. So, yes, you can sit there and say, no. I don't wanna do this.
Xavier:You know, it's not going to help me. But in general, I mean, you wanna know if something is changing, and you wanna be able to capture things earlier than later. Otherwise, it's gonna cost you significantly more financially. It's gonna cost you significantly more emotionally. It's gonna cost you significantly more time consuming, the amount of damage on your body.
Xavier:So yes, you can go that route, but this isn't 1990 anymore. You know, we've advanced significantly. And I think that's the mindset that we have to change is that, yeah, maybe in 1990, you couldn't have done these things, but now you can.
Heidi:Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. This, this is something I'm actually super passionate about. So, so I want to dive in, but I'm going let you keep answering some questions first, and then we'll, we'll really have some fun.
Heidi:Tell me, how long does the initial setup take? When you start, someone signs up with you, and then they're going to set up all of this stuff. Again, we're dealing with lots of professional business owners and professionals. How much time are we taking? Because historically when we deal with medicine and testing and MRIs, it is a nightmare.
Heidi:It is. I mean, it's ridiculous how much time it's like, well, insurance has to approve that. And then you have to call to schedule this. And It is just such a pain to try to get that stuff organized, not to mention the amount of time it takes to actually go and do those tests and have all that performed. Talk a little bit about what is the time requirement, how long does it take to get everything done, and how much has to be invested in to really start to pull the data?
Xavier:Yeah. No. That's a really great question. You were to do this through the insurance world, it would take about, no joke, if you're an insurance ninja, which I know some of your folks are, it'll take you nine to twelve months. It'll cost about $54,000 depending on your insurance to do all this stuff.
Xavier:If you get it approved. Right? If you go, Hey, I have a family health history of this. They're like, Yeah, but you don't have any symptoms, so back of the line, or we're not going approve that. Right?
Heidi:So it's whole- And to your point, I apologize for interrupting, but to your point, same thing. I had one of my doctors request a genetic test because both of my parents and my brother have had issues with colon cancer. They denied the genetic test because it wasn't significant enough, and they were like, No, we're not paying for that. And then additionally, I needed an MRI for something. This was just recently.
Heidi:I actually went through the doctor, worked on everything up to an MRI, treating it. And I'm very, very self focused on lots of things. I mean, I'm doing red light sauna and cold therapy and anti inflammatories and, and, you know, all of the modalities to avoid doctors at, at, to all ends. And yet after I think I spent eight months of really trying to deal with it myself before I was like, look, I want an MRI because I just want the information. I need the information.
Heidi:I know exactly what's going on and that will help me make an educated decision on how best to treat this aside from surgery. And this was after having seen a doctor four different times. The insurance denied it. So again, I'm sure people have example after example after example, but it's incredibly frustrating.
Xavier:Yeah. Yeah. We've sort of been beat down to submission. Right?
Heidi:Yeah.
Xavier:As a society as a whole, the insurance industry and the insurance carriers really have a hold on this whole process where they make it so tedious and so time consuming that people are like, the hell with it. I'm only gonna go in if I absolutely have to, but that's the wrong mentality. Right? Now we're getting people to go, okay. Let's push this off until it's absolutely chronic, till the pain of what I'm feeling outweighs the pain of going through the whole process and and doing all this scheduling and all this, you know, charades.
Xavier:So I'll answer your question very quickly. Thirty days start to finish. Thirty days. And now that is someone who's highly engaged and, and doing all the things that we tell them to do when to do it. Yeah.
Xavier:So I would say the average is probably taking a little bit longer, about forty five days, just because scheduling, travel.
Heidi:Yeah. But in thirty days, how long is that taking someone? Like how many hours are they spending? How much, what do they have to do in terms of going somewhere, waiting in a waiting room, you know, stripping down to lay in an MRI machine? How much time is it actually taking?
Xavier:Yeah. We have we have the process down really, really smoothly. So we we did two you only have to really go to two things, and one of them goes to you. So we send a mobile phlebotomist to your house, We schedule it first thing in the morning, so you're living with no travel time, no waiting rooms.
Heidi:You don't have to fast
Xavier:for
Heidi:twelve, sixteen hours until your blood draw it.
Xavier:Yeah. They give you a ticket and you have someone coughing on you. You're like, what am I doing here?
Heidi:Yeah. Yeah.
Xavier:So you don't have to do any of that. So we really made it so that this is as simple and easy as possible. And again, we're we're catering to the busy executives. Right? Like time is money, you know, especially accountants, especially right now.
Xavier:So if anyone's listening during tax season, you know, kudos to you. Maybe in the background.
Heidi:Yeah. Exactly.
Xavier:But, yeah, we wanna make that process super simple. The other the second thing that you'll go to, and we can't I I looked into it. It's very expensive. We can't bring the MRI to your house.
Heidi:Ugh. That's a shame.
Xavier:We'll send you to an MRI, but everything's gonna be done upfront. So all the paperwork, all the scheduling, all of the back end process is all done for you. You tell us when you're available. We schedule it for you on your behalf and you're in and out of there typically within two and a half hours.
Heidi:Got it. So, you know, just getting the big question right out of the way, because you know, everybody is like, oh yeah, well then what is that going to cost? I'm guessing this doesn't push through insurance and not covered. This is an individual cost. What are you charging for this service?
Heidi:We'll just get that out of the way right now. If are not willing to invest in this, we'll just throw it out there.
Xavier:Yeah. You know, so it is a significant investment. So it's not, you know, something that's, you know, inexpensive. So we're not doing just one blood test. We're doing three different imaging modalities.
Xavier:We're doing a neurocognitive assessment. We have wearables, we've got blood work. We've got genetics, we've got physician time. It's an annual program, so it's not a one and done. So you do have a doctor and a coach.
Xavier:So all these things kind of put together, we've got three different packages. They start out at $12,000 and they go up to $22,000 So we do have something for everybody that wants to invest in this sort of advanced healthcare and analytics that isn't available currently. So for someone who's a busy executive, it makes sense because you're getting it all done and you're getting access to the best resources in the world. But you know, for some people that's not something that's within their wheelhouse. We totally understand that as well.
Heidi:Well, that's why I think the transparency is really important because we'll dive into it's not just the medical tests. It's not just capturing if you have some unrecognized cancer and catching that early. This is about lifestyle. This is about overall health and well-being. It's about energy.
Heidi:It's about happiness, about mental health. There are so many aspects of our health that this correlates to. This is not just, I want to see if I'm missing a diagnosis of something that's severe. That's been one thing that for me personally has been a massive area of interest for me is really understanding. I was high school and a college athlete, and so I learned young to understand how my body feels well and how it feels strong and what good energy feels like.
Heidi:And so then as we continue to age and we go through different phases of life, and now I am premenopausal, This is a whole conversation that's coming up across the board for women in particular and for overall health and energy. I want to share one story, and then I'll have you share your story as to why you're doing this and what really has driven you towards this business. One of the things that really triggered me a couple of years ago was the lack of transparency. We go to our doctor, we do an annual physical, we get our annual blood drawn, they call you. The secretary calls you on the phone and says, everything looks fine.
Heidi:And you know, probably four years ago now, I did that. I had my blood test. The secretary calls me and she says, yeah, there's a couple of markers that are off. You're actually pre diabetic. So you need to start an exercise program and probably change your diet.
Heidi:And the doctor would like you to come back in six months and let us know how it's going. And I was like, wait, excuse me? Like, first off, I eat very well and very, very little sugar. Exercise probably more than the average person. I lift weights four days a week.
Heidi:I do yoga two to three days a week. I am an equestrian on my spare time. So evenings I'm riding two to three horses a day. I average something like 25,000 steps a day. And that is given the fact that I have a desk job at a computer eight to ten hours a day.
Heidi:So I am quite active more than the average person. So when you get a phone call like that, I tell the gal, well, that's interesting because that doesn't seem right. Like something must be off because if I am showing prediabetic, then I have greater concerns that something is actually wrong because I consume very little sugar and I exercise excessively. And she says, well, I can't answer that for you again. You just need to come back in six months.
Heidi:And so I said, would you send me my lab results please? And, well, I suppose we can do that. You and I talked earlier and you know, something like, well, do you have a fax number? It's like, what planet are we on? You know, it's so ridiculous.
Heidi:So I do manage to get my lab results, which are really not that comprehensive. In fact, it's really surprising how uncomprehensive they are, the things they don't test for in an annual physical. So I look at the results. Well, what's interesting is I looked at it and I was dramatically iron deficient, extremely anemic. Like there was a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it.
Heidi:Like, this is really, really alarming. You are highly anemic. So I called back and I said, so in my research, when you're anemic that can skew your A1C readings. Do you okay. Just for the record, this was an OB GYN.
Heidi:And the response was we don't look at those metrics. We just read the test. And I was so dumbfounded and speechless. Like you are an OB GYN dealing with women and their female cycles, and you don't notice that a client is significantly anemic. And then you tell them that they should exercise and eat better.
Heidi:This is just an example of what we see across the medical space. Just rampant, and it's nothing to frown upon how physicians are handling it. It's just time. It's medicine. It's insurance companies, how they're dealing with these types of things.
Heidi:But with that said, I started to do my research. I got onto a platform, and it's function. I'm on function health. I think that's really expanding significantly. And it is really allowing people to take ownership of their health, not only with, with minerals and vitamins and nutrients, cholesterol and heart health.
Heidi:It's looking at hormonal health for women. And that is really, really significant for men who are aging as well, because hormonal health has a massive impact on our function and our energy and aging abilities as we continue to go. So again, I am really passionate about this. And I think that being our own advocates in this day and age, it's the greatest blessing we've been given in recent years to have tools available to better understand how we can look at that information and understand it. And the fact that you have coaches and you are providing that is really tremendous.
Heidi:So I apologize. I'll stop my rant, but share a little bit more about once you take the data, let's say, you know, we're not looking at someone who has cancer and we're identifying some earth shattering thing. It's really just the overall health, longevity, and feeling better. So talk about what you're looking at on blood tests, what you're seeing, and then how are you working with people from a coaching standpoint to help them make small improvements for people who might be sitting at their desk for long hours every day? They don't have a lot of time.
Heidi:They're not interested in changing their entire lifestyle overnight. But how can you really help someone in that situation do something that makes an impact?
Xavier:Yeah. I mean, gosh, I have so much to say over what you mentioned, right? Like there, there are so many people like you that are just trusting the health care system to do their job, and they're not. Right? It'd be like someone looking at your taxes and just saying, you know, what did you make?
Xavier:And do you know of any tax exemptions that you're eligible? Like not asking the drill down questions because there's layers, right? Like the CPAs, like the really good ones will ask you a ton of questions upfront, and then they'll know exactly what to prescribe for you to give you your best outcomes. Right? The really bad ones are just like, hey, just give me the data, and I'll do the best that I can with what you got.
Xavier:And we're we're sort of like, no, but I don't I don't know what I don't know. Right? I don't know that I'm vitamin D deficient. I don't know that I'm vitamin B deficient. I don't know that my hormones are imbalanced.
Xavier:I don't know that I'm not sleeping because of some other thing other than I'm just on my phone. Right? So it's just a lot of lot of education that needs to happen, and it starts with data. And I I don't think that you can truly cause change to somebody until they understand where they're at today and where they could be at in five, ten, fifteen, twenty years. Right now, heart disease is the leading cause of death in America for men and women.
Xavier:Right? And it's so easy to early identify whether you're high risk for heart disease. But again, these tests are just not being done. Right?
Heidi:Mhmm.
Xavier:Very small percentage of people are actually doing their annual physicals, and they're getting, and of those annual physicals, they're just getting those shitty tests with a few, maybe a dozen different tests that come back. Right?
Heidi:Yeah.
Xavier:Where you mentioned function, they're really leading the charge in this, personalized preventative medicine space. They're losing money on every, every test, which is great to have, you know, this, abundant, number of funding to be able to do that. So we don't play in that space. You know, we can't, we can't do things at a loss. We don't have unlimited funding, but what we do is we take it to the next level.
Heidi:Yeah. That's what I was going say is I think what you're offering is really, again, that coaching. Just before asking you more about the coaching, commenting on the heart disease, you know, I just finished reading Good Energy by Casey Means, and she really talks about heart disease, but more so metabolic disorder, which really relates to our overconsumption of sugar. The overconsumption of sugar and carbs that we are not burning is what is actually converting into heart disease and all of these other issues. And it's one of the stats she put in the book is it's, you know, don't quote me, but it's something like thirty six percent of today's youth are prediabetic.
Heidi:And that statistic, one in every three of our children 18 years and younger are pre diabetic. It is the first time in history our younger generation is actually facing a shorter lifespan than those of us living right now. And that is another, I think should be an absolutely alarming statistic. And so I also, in addition to just looking at your own personal health and encouraging people to consider working with someone or finding help or being informed. It's also understanding that the choices you make carry to your family and to your children and through generations, The things you do and the decisions you make with your health, your physical activity, and your food intake will directly transfer to your children and the decisions that they make.
Heidi:So it's not just, am I eating the wrong thing today? It is bigger and more far reaching. So again, you know, I'll push it back to you in terms of really how you're helping people then with taking that data. And then how are you assisting with moving forward with helping to implement change?
Xavier:Yeah. No, I'm glad you shared that stat. A lot of people don't know that. And a lot of people don't know that forty two of Americans are obese in America. Right?
Xavier:So that's nearly half. So we all know that, or some people know, that obesity is kind of the gateway drug to everything else. Right? Like high obesity, as you mentioned, higher likelihood of having heart disease, higher likelihood of cancer, higher likelihood of diabetes, higher likelihood of a neurocognitive disorder. So all these things are related.
Xavier:And, when you say, oh, poor that person, and then you look at their lifestyle and you're like, well, yes, poor that person. But at the same time, there are things that happened along the way that made them have a higher risk for that disease. And again, if no one ever told them, then shame on us for not educating and shame on the healthcare system for not educating them on what that could potentially mean. But again, there's just that huge disparity of healthcare knowledge and where we are today as a society. So we're trying to bridge that gap.
Xavier:I think you're doing your part and I know you're passionate about this, so I'm happy to be here and be a resource.
Heidi:I just keep saying if one person just makes one tiny change because of our conversation, and it's just because I love the conversations as well. I love meeting amazing people like yourself, and it's again something I'm passionate about. So what is one tip that you would give our listeners for something preliminarily, let's say they haven't done this testing yet. I think it is literally life changing. But what is one tip that you would give people that you're seeing, again, people who probably have a desk job, spend a lot of time sitting.
Heidi:What is one or two major recommendations you could make?
Xavier:Yeah. I mean, I think it starts with data. And the easiest thing to do is go on our website and take a free health risk assessment. Like, that will get you a good starting point. You can actually find out what tests you can take based on your symptoms.
Xavier:I don't I don't love a shotgun approach to health care and just saying, hey. Let's do everything and see what happens. Most people don't have those kind of resources. Mhmm. But if you can find out, you know, like, hey.
Xavier:Look. I'm I'm getting you know, I'm having trouble concentrating. I'm not as quick as I used to be, you know, on on getting things done. I've got no motivation to do things. Well, it's maybe has to do with your vitamin deficiencies or your hormone levels, but I don't want you to do hormones if you can do other things that we're gonna have higher yield.
Xavier:Like, maybe just the vitamin D, vitamin B, you know, supplements are gonna be your thing. But you won't know that unless you take a health risk assessment and have someone say, hey. Look. With the symptoms that you're you're you're saying, these are the things that you can do. Because, I mean, the worst thing like, we hear hormones all the time.
Xavier:Like, that's great, and and it's very prevalent. I mean, it's it's a very high number. I think two in three individuals at some point in their lifetime are gonna have a hormone imbalance. Right? So very high clip, very high yield.
Xavier:But it's not everybody for that for that one, you know, somebody else who's like, hey. Look. I'm I'm fine. I'm I'm operating at, you know, 600, eight hundred testosterone. I've got no issues there.
Xavier:Then I I don't wanna recommend that for that person. That person maybe needs sleep. Maybe, it's something else.
Heidi:Mhmm.
Xavier:So I I would I would advise everyone to try to get their data in any way, shape, or form, whether it's going through a different health care provider, whether it's knocking on the door of their doctor saying, hey, I want to do a food sensitivity test because I'm having issues with my gut, whether it's taking gut microbiome test, whether it's looking at your toxins, environmental toxins. I just found out that I have, you know, mold in my house, and it's like this boy. Something that you would never think. And and I was like, you know, I do have seasonal allergies. I have all these things.
Xavier:Yeah. I'm just gonna figure it out. I'm gonna try I'm gonna do this other test. And sure enough, I've got toxins in my body. I'm like, okay.
Xavier:Now let's put these little tests in my in my room and and figure out if there's anything going on here. And sure enough, you look at it, there's like a little Petri dish. Actually, I have one here. This is like old pack of them. Wow.
Xavier:And and these Petri dishes, it's gonna grow mold if you have mold inside your house. So what's that doing to us? What are the plastics that we're doing? We've gotta get away from heating up food and plastics. You know, there's just so many things, but everybody has a very specific need, and it's not a one size fits all.
Xavier:So that's where our company is very different, where we're very personalized precision medicine versus a shotgun approach, you know, hope it all works out. Again, a lot of the tests that you can take, be like, yeah. Well, great. You know, have that one thing that that test did, but what about everything else? And I don't wanna test everything.
Xavier:I wanna ask you the questions like a good CPA would be like, hey. What's the square footage of your office versus saying, oh, yeah. We'll just write off whatever. We wanna know exactly what your pain points are and then and then prescribe accordingly. And you mentioned the coaching.
Xavier:That's the biggest differentiator within our company. So physicians don't have time and then have the training for follow-up.
Heidi:Right.
Xavier:As you mentioned with yourself. Right? They're like, hey. Here's your test, and so long, and good good luck. But within our system, we have AI.
Xavier:Again, AI would have caught that that iron deficiency and said, hey. No. That's something because we have the world's knowledge of health care at our disposal. Maybe that one doctor doesn't believe that it's important, OB GYN. Hopefully you're not going to him or her.
Heidi:Well, you know, in, in that book, that good energy, one of the things also that she said is that in her entire medical education, through her whole process of becoming a physician, and she was highly successful, very young, really astounding career, she did not take one single nutrition course throughout the course of her education, not one single on nutrition and how food and nutrients affect the body and how the body responds to what is essentially being taken in. And I find that so fascinating and crazy, but I had promised early on that I did want to dig a little bit into your why. Tell me a little bit about what led you on this path. What made you want to go here or create Marqi Medical, and what was really that driving factor for you?
Xavier:Yeah. I think it's a similar story to you and a similar story to probably most people who have had health conditions affect them or their loved ones. But I'm just in a unique position to actually do something about it. So I've been in health care for over two decades now, mostly on the insurance side and focusing on large group health care and chronic disease management programs. Well, I've always believed in prevention.
Xavier:You know, I'm, you know, former athlete myself, and I've always believed in, you know, good nutrition and all these things. And then I see it fail people who are who are active, like my wife. My wife has an autoimmune disease, And I actually took her to some of the best doctors in the world a few years ago, and they couldn't find out what was going on. They said, I don't know. It's probably just this this Epsom Bar syndrome, and and and you're fine.
Xavier:And they just had to do one more test to to see if that ANA was elevated for a certain reason, and they didn't do it. And I got very frustrated that they didn't do that because it's a very serious condition. It affects your energy levels. Lupus is the is the autoimmune and, very, very common in women, as you may So I wanted to create something more holistic that would capture those things because there's so many people suffering and have no idea what's going on and their current healthcare system is doing minimal to nothing. It's built for if you're really, really, really, really suffering and it's super obvious, we're we're gonna get it.
Xavier:If you're just run of the mill or early, we don't have time for you. We don't know what to do. And and it's a it's a whole slew of problems. So it's it's single payer. Doctors are overwhelmed, overworked Mhmm.
Xavier:And don't have enough resources to to service 2,000 patients. Like, it's just it is what it is. Accountants know the feeling. Right? There's only so much so many hours in a day.
Heidi:Yep.
Xavier:So I get it. True. I get it. It's it's not ideal. But entering AI the world of AI, we're we're getting to a point where we're able to do more.
Xavier:Mhmm. And I think that back to the coaching, you know, that's probably one of the biggest differentiators for us is that we can actually follow through and check on you and make sure that you're doing the things that you're doing and educate you and consistently monitor. So we're not doing just one test, You know, we're doing multiple tests throughout the year. We're doing constant monitoring with your wearables and your glucose monitors. So we're we're really looking at every single point along the way to see if there's anything that moves that's out of the ordinary.
Xavier:And, we're we're putting this all together with AI to to get us the best doctors in the world's opinion, not just the one doctor that you happen to be seeing.
Heidi:That's amazing. I mean, that's huge. And for people that are really busy, again, sitting at a desk all day long, time is really limited, I think that really is a big differentiator, someone who really is kind of handholding through that process and then coaching on ways to make small improvements and small changes that can really be life changing, not just in, again, your health and making sure you're healthy and you don't have some debilitating disease. It's just quality of life. It's just being happier, healthier, stronger, feeling better, more energy.
Heidi:As we wrap up, where can listeners learn about Marqi Medical? And by the way, for our listeners, I will be listing your website. I'll actually drop in some of those links for those questionnaires. I love it that you've got some of those assessments on there. So we'll share those assessments in the show notes so you can click on that information.
Heidi:But what else would you suggest in terms of reaching out to either you personally or to Marqi Medical?
Xavier:Yeah. So I mean, they can reach out to me via social media. LinkedIn's probably the best way. So it's, linkedin.com/xaviercerano. You can share that link if they want to message me directly.
Xavier:Going on the website of course is a great way to get ahold of us as well, so they can fill out a free health questionnaire. They get a ton of value from that. And then check out our resources and articles as well, where they can get a ton of great value for just reading about, you know, all these different tools and resources that are available.
Heidi:That's amazing. Well, thank you so much. You know, that's one thing that I've found, with many of the guests that I've had on the podcast is there are so many people that provide a lot of really incredible content and tools and information that are just out of goodwill. I really appreciate you making the effort to do that and share that. We'll make sure and share that with listeners again and share those across our social media platforms as well.
Heidi:Xavier, thank you so much for being here today. I really appreciate your time, and I hope our listeners find it useful and really value your expertise in what you're doing.
Xavier:Yeah. No. This was, this was great. Thank you so much for having me on your podcast, and I hope that the viewers got some value out of our conversation.
Heidi:Thank you so much. What a fun conversation with Xavier Serrano. Well, I think we all needed the reminder that our health is our foundation, and waiting until something goes wrong is no longer the only or the best option. Xavier shared how AI, advanced diagnostics, and high touch coaching can help us catch issues early, optimize energy and focus, and extend not just our lifespan, but our health span. And for those of us running businesses or working long hours, this kind of proactive, personalized care can be a game changer.
Heidi:If you're ready to stop guessing and start taking control of your health, check out Marqi Medical and everything that Xavier is building. You can find links and more resources in the show notes. And thank you again for joining the Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Accountant. Don't forget, please subscribe, share the episode, and let me know what resonated most with you. Until next time, stay healthy, wealthy, and wise.
