Taking My Health Into My Own Hands: Tests, Records, and What Actually Worked
All the Hacks: Money, Points & Life
Chris Hutchins
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I always figured that if something were actually wrong with my health, my doctor would catch it. |
| 0:05.0 | Turns out that's not really how the system works, and I learned it the hard way. |
| 0:08.9 | I've had high cholesterol since I was a kid, and for almost 30 years, no one did a thing about it. |
| 0:14.2 | So I stopped waiting, and I started taking my health into my own hands, and it turned out to be way more doable than I expected. |
| 0:21.5 | I'll break down which tests were actually worth doing, which were a waste, the fight to get |
| 0:26.1 | a drug covered by my insurance, how I used AI to pull in years of my own health data into a |
| 0:31.3 | report that my doctor and I now used together, and the handful of things that made the biggest |
| 0:36.3 | difference along the way, some of which |
| 0:38.4 | are completely free. I'm Chris Hutchins. If you enjoy this episode and you want to keep upgrading |
| 0:43.0 | your money, points in life, click follow or subscribe. So I just spent the weekend with my parents |
| 0:48.5 | and we both remembered this moment when I was a child and I went to the doctor's office and they had to do |
| 0:54.8 | some blood draw. And for whatever reason in my mind, whether or not this is true, the needle was a lot |
| 0:59.7 | bigger because they were testing my cholesterol. That's what I remember in my head. What my mom |
| 1:04.4 | remembers is that they needed to bring in multiple people from the doctor's office to hold me down |
| 1:09.1 | because I did not want to get my blood |
| 1:11.4 | drawn. This must have been sometime in elementary school. We couldn't place an exact date as we told |
| 1:16.3 | this story, but my mom said she just remembers people holding me down. I kind of have some vague |
| 1:22.1 | memories of it. I more remember what the room looked like than anything else. Well, a few weeks later, I was told, |
| 1:29.1 | or at least my mother was told that I had high cholesterol. Nothing actually happened about it, |
| 1:33.4 | right? They just said, your son has high cholesterol. Nothing happened for a long time. And then I |
| 1:39.1 | never really thought about this, but I started doing some digging to prep for this episode on |
| 1:43.4 | when was the first time |
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