Doctor Mike says whole-body MRI firms sell screening without proven benefit

What was said

"I think we need to be very careful about how we talk about these whole body branded company of scans. They're very smart in that they're recommending their test as a marketing thing for the general population and they very clearly say that if you're having symptoms, let's say a headache, that you want evaluated. They don't want you to get their scan to evaluate a problem."

Doctor Mike Varshavski says he does not generally recommend whole-body MRI screening marketed to healthy people by branded providers such as Prenuvo, arguing the marketing is aimed at general-population “screening” rather than symptom evaluation. He says there is no clear research basis to claim these scans improve outcomes for most people, and warns of false positives and anxiety, while raising questions about celebrity endorsements he says were not satisfactorily answered by the company’s founder when he interviewed him.