Healthcare should not be reduced to mere disease management.

We start with a deep dive into your personal biology with whole genome sequencing. Next, we overlay an advanced panel of biomarkers, metabolic profiling and the results of selective and specific CT and MRI imaging. Machine learning and AI help us separate signal from noise (more on what ML/AI does — and doesn't do — in our practice below) and we build a complete picture of your current health, health history, and future dispositions.

This becomes the foundation for real, unhurried time with your physician — so you can understand your options and make informed decisions that impact your health today and in the future. No rushed visits. No generic answers. No mindless testing leading to more testing with uncertain utility. A straightforward, genuine patient-physician relationship underpinned by rigorous data — all aimed at helping you achieve your health goals, not arbitrary population-wide guidelines.

We don't have strict cardinal age limits (we work with adults of all ages), but our patients do all share a mindset: They come in wanting deeper, more meaningful insights into their health by leveraging advanced diagnostic technology with an experienced, dedicated physician to decipher it. Precision medicine is healthcare designed not just to diagnose and treat disease — but to optimize the human body to reach its potential. That means individualized diagnostics and protocols, and a physician who understands performance as well as pathology.

Though not a pre-requisite, many of our patients have a specific goal in mind such as promoting longevity, losing the weight that conventional medicine shrugged at, getting back on the sand after an achilles injury, or running a marathon PR. For goal directed patients, we track the biomarkers that matter for your goals, not just the ones on a standard panel. We build recovery and injury prevention into the plan from the start, not as an afterthought when something breaks down. Whether you're a competitive athlete, a weekend warrior, or someone who simply wants to feel like the best version of themselves — this clinic was built for you. Come in with your goal. We'll build the roadmap.

Two things are true about AI in medicine — and most clinics are only telling you one of them. The first is a fear: that artificial intelligence is coming for your doctor. That algorithms will replace the physician, automate the diagnosis, and reduce your care to a chatbot with a prescription pad. The second is a hope: that AI and machine learning will make your healthcare dramatically better — even if it means losing the personal, human touch in the process. At Analog, we reject both as false choices.

AI and machine learning genuinely do improve your healthcare. That part of the hope is real. The depth of personalized medical inquiry now possible — mining your genomic data, cross-referencing years of biomarkers, analyzing patterns across your blood and saliva profiles in real time — produces insights that were only theoretical a decade ago. Precision medicine at this level of resolution simply wasn't possible before these tools existed. We use them fully and without apology.

But here is what we refuse to accept: that better technology means less time with your physician. In fact, the opposite is true. The more data we can now assemble about you — your genome, your proteome, your metabolic fingerprint, your biological age — the more you need an experienced physician sitting across from you to interpret it, contextualize it, answer your questions, and help you make decisions that are specific to your life and your goals. More information demands more conversation, not less.

There's an upshot to the AI era that rarely gets discussed: machine learning is steadily liberating physicians from the administrative and clerical burden that has accumulated over decades and stolen time from patients. The documentation, the data entry, the endless mouse clicks — technology handles more of that every year. Which means Analog physicians get to do what they trained to do: think carefully about your health, and spend real time with you doing it. Precision medicine tools and a patient-physician relationship built the old-fashioned way — at Analog, those aren't trade-offs. They're the standard.

I've spent over twenty years in emergency medicine and critical care. Cardiac arrests. Multi-organ failure. Split-second decisions at 3 a.m. I'm proud of that work. But here's what I rarely said out loud: we were almost always reacting. Almost never predicting.

By the time you meet a physician in the ER, something has already gone catastrophically wrong. The heart attack has started. The stroke has stolen speech. The cancer has spread far enough to cause pain that can't be ignored. Conventional medicine — even outside the emergency department — operates on the same logic: wait for symptoms, match them to a diagnosis, prescribe a treatment, hope it works. This is one-size-fits-all medicine. And it's not the best we can do anymore.

Precision medicine uses your unique biology — your genetics, your metabolic fingerprint, your proteins, your lifestyle — to build a healthcare plan designed specifically for you. Not for the average patient. For you. The tools now exist to catch cardiovascular disease before the heart attack. To identify cancer at stage I instead of stage IV. To understand how your body metabolizes medications before something goes wrong. To measure your biological age — not the number on your license — and actually change it.

I founded Analog Precision Medicine because I've spent two decades on the back end of disease. I've coded patients whose heart attacks could have been predicted years earlier. I've watched stage IV cancer diagnoses that might have been stage I with the right screening. Emergency medicine gave me something most precision medicine providers don't have: a visceral understanding of what's at stake when we get this wrong.

This clinic is the most important work of my career. Not because it's new — but because it should have existed sooner.

— Robert Preston, MD

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