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Preventative health care centre coming to Moose Jaw

The new Prodrome Health Centre will host its grand opening on May 29, with founder Dr. Dayan Goodenowe explaining the purpose of the lifestyle centre for the community
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Prodrome Sciences Inc., a healthcare company that is currently the only centre offering prodrome-based blood testing for disease prevention, is opening its first outreach health centre — right here in Moose Jaw. 

Aside from the head office in Saskatoon, this Prodrome Health Centre will be the first of its kind from Prodrome Sciences. 

The centre will be located at 1350 Lakeview Road, which is just off of Highway 1. Its purpose is more than just a health clinic; for a membership fee, the centre offers the prodrome blood test as well as a number of professionals to help address the results found in the blood test. 

Dr. Dayan Goodenowe, founder of Prodrome Sciences and one of the researchers who discovered the usefulness of the prodrome blood test, hopes the centre will offer new options for disease prevention. 

“The health center allows people first to get this information, and then there are useful programs that people can take proactive action, to not only prevent future diseases from occurring but improve their current health state,” said Goodenowe.

The blood test developed by Prodrome Sciences is the only one of its kind currently being offered to the public, outside of expensive clinical trials. It measures an individual’s prodrome biomarkers for changes that indicate a risk for future disease. 

The biochemical changes seen using this test can happen long before disease symptoms fully appear, meaning that the prodrome blood test is a preventative test, rather than a reactionary one.

Dr. Goodenowe paints a useful analogy in explaining the benefit of early detection of disease markers: it allows time for lifestyle changes that may help. 

“We were identifying bald tires before they became flat,” said Goodenowe. “If you have a bald tire on your car and you don't have time to go get a brand new tire — or its not possible — then you drive on better streets, or you change your behavior and your habits to prevent that negative outcome; in this case a flat tire.”

“[It] just provides additional information that can potentially be useful today,” he added. “Not just some theoretical future benefit, but it could actually benefit in the relatively short term.” 

The grand opening of the new centre will be on May 29, with a reception from 2 - 4pm at the Centre’s location. Later that evening, Dr. Goodenowe and Dr. Mitchel Kling will give a lecture on Alzheimer’s and how it intersects with prodrome science, also at the centre at 7pm.

Organizers welcome anyone interested in the new centre to stop by the afternoon reception and to bring any questions with them. 

Those interested in attending the lecture are asked to RSVP by email to contact@prodromehealth.com or by phone at 1 (877) 280-5880. 

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