Meet Sarah — 42, Detroit. Exhausted for a year. Three doctors, no answers. Watch how Aven finds what they missed.
See what standard medicine misses.
Aven Clarity decodes the root causes — the toxins, the environmental exposures, the biological connections — that standard care was never designed to find.
Welcome, Sarah. Before we get into anything, I want to know a few things about how you live — because about 70% of toxin exposure comes from food, especially leafy greens grown in older soils. Five quick questions.
1. How often do you eat leafy greens (kale, spinach, chard)?
Thank you. That's enough for me to give you a first picture — before ordering any laboratory tests.
Based on what you've told me — your home age, your ZIP code's water and soil reports, and your diet — Aven's reasoning flagged something worth a closer look.
I just posted your first insight in the panel to the left. These insights will change as we learn more about you.
This is a hypothesis, not a diagnosis. But it's the most informative thing I can tell you in 60 seconds. Want to confirm or rule it out?
Before we go deeper — is there anything specific going on for you health-wise? A symptom, a concern, anything you've been wrestling with?
I've had chronic fatigue for over a year. I've seen 3 doctors. They ran labs, said I'm "basically healthy," and offered me HRT. I refused. I bought a Function Health subscription out of desperation. The 100+ markers were comprehensive and meaningless. I have no idea what to do.
Pick what you have. PDF, image, or genomic export — I can read all of them.
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What are you uploading?
Choosing the right type helps me route it to the correct pipeline.
Reading Sarah_FunctionHealth_Report.pdf now…
Aven is extracting lab measurements and categorizing them against the clinical model.
I extracted 104 markers from your Function Health report
Nothing has been added to your health profile yet — review and confirm first.
Done. Aven has processed your 98 lab measurements and re-evaluated.
The hypothesis I had on you in 60 seconds, before any labs, just got confirmed and sharpened by your Function Health data.
Heavy Metal Exposure: 64% → 92%
Function Health had every one of these markers in the report you already paid for. They didn't connect them to a story.
I just did — by combining your data with your ZIP code and a 14,000-node clinical model built over 20 years by Dr. Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. — founder of Bastyr University and co-author of the Textbook of Natural Medicine.
Want me to show you exactly how I got there?
Here's why your fatigue isn't a mystery anymore.
Your symptom, the metabolic pathways, and your data — connected by Aven's reasoning.
Lead competitively inhibits ALAD, an enzyme essential to heme synthesis. Reduced heme means functional iron deficiency — your body can't efficiently carry oxygen or produce cellular energy, even if your iron labs look "normal." This may be contributing to the chronic fatigue you've been experiencing.
Your low zinc and low ceruloplasmin are textbook signs of chronic low-level lead exposure: your body has been depleting both to compensate. Combined with your 1932 Detroit home and elevated ALT, Aven's reasoning ranks heavy metal toxicity as your single most likely upstream cause.
This is Aven's highest-probability hypothesis given your data. It's not a diagnosis. It's a hypothesis precise enough to take to a doctor and confirm.
Now let's turn the hypothesis into a plan.
Everything up to this point — Aven's Insights, the root cause analysis — is free. The next part is the actionable protocol.
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Here's exactly what to ask your doctor for.
The engine identifies the tests that would most reduce uncertainty about heavy metal toxicity — and gives you the billing codes so insurance pays.
| Test | Sample | CPTCPT stands for Current Procedural Terminology — used to ensure accurate documentation, billing, and reporting of healthcare services. code |
|---|---|---|
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Blood Lead Level (BLL)
Direct measure of recent lead exposure — primary confirmation
|
Blood draw | 83655 |
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Urine heavy metals panel
Measures excreted heavy metals — complements blood lead for full picture
|
Urine | 83018 |
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RBC zinc
Confirms the low zinc finding from your Function Health report
|
Blood draw | 84630 |
A doctor-ready summary for the BLL test:
Request: Blood Lead Level (CPT 83655)
Why this test: Patient is 42 yo female, lives in a 1932 home in Detroit (ZIP 48202) — an EPA-flagged water district for lead. Unfiltered municipal water, reports farmed fish consumption and garden produce in older soil. 12-month history of chronic fatigue with three prior WNL workups.
Environmental risk factors are the primary basis for this request.
Supplementary context: A probabilistic health assessment also identified lab patterns (low zinc, low ceruloplasmin, elevated ALT, low alkaline phosphatase) that are consistent with the environmental picture above. These are provided as additional context — the environmental factors are the primary clinical basis.
Specific actions, not generic advice.
Categorized so you know what to do yourself, what to discuss with your doctor, and what to bring to a specialist.
- Eliminate farm-raised fishHighest dietary lead source for your demographic. Switch to wild-caught Alaskan salmon, sardines.
- Increase cruciferous vegetables 4x/weekSulforaphane supports your detox pathways. Broccoli sprouts are highest yield.
- Test your garden soil for lead before eating from itDetroit topsoil contamination is well-documented. If your garden is organic and soil tests clean, continue — organic home-grown is ideal. The risk is primarily from non-organic retail produce grown in contaminated soil.
- Liposomal glutathione, 500mg/dayQuicksilver Scientific or Pure Encapsulations · ~$45/mo
- Zinc picolinate, 30mg/day with foodReplenishes the depletion seen in your Function Health zinc · Thorne · ~$15/mo
- Vitamin C, 1000mg/dayCofactor for chelation pathways · any reputable brand
- Order a Blood Lead Level (CPT 83655)Use the doctor-ready summary on the previous screen.
- Discuss DMSA chelation protocolOnly if BLL confirms exposure. Physician-supervised only.
- Find an environmental medicine specialist3 in your area — see referrals tab.
- AquaTru countertop RO filterRemoves lead, arsenic, fluoride. ~$450, no installation. Better than whole-house for your zip's contaminant profile.
- Home dust lead test kit$15 mail-in kit. Confirm whether your 1932 home has active lead dust.
- Infrared sauna 3x/weekMobilizes stored heavy metals via sweat. Public sauna fine if home unit isn't an option.
One page. Your doctor gets the whole story.
Print it, email it, or hand it to your next appointment. Cites engine reasoning with specific markers and asks.
Send to your doctor
Patient: Sarah Chen, 42 F · ZIP 48202 (Detroit)
Chief concern: Chronic fatigue, ~12 months. Three prior workups WNL. Most recent recommendation: HRT (declined).
Request
Patient is requesting:
Environmental basis for this request
- Residence built 1932 — pre-1978 (lead paint, likely lead service lines)
- ZIP 48202 — Detroit EPA water quality report flags elevated lead levels
- Patient reports unfiltered municipal water, farmed fish consumption, garden produce in older soil
These environmental factors are the primary clinical basis for this screening request.
Additional context from health assessment (supplementary)
A probabilistic health model (Aven Clarity SG1, 14,000-node Bayesian network) identified patterns in the patient's recent lab work (Function Health, Mar 2026) that are consistent with chronic lead exposure when combined with the environmental factors above:
- Zinc 62 µg/dL (low-normal) — depleted in lead compensation
- Ceruloplasmin 18 mg/dL (low) — copper transport marker
- ALT 42 U/L (high-normal) — hepatic stress marker
- Alkaline phosphatase 38 U/L (low) — zinc-dependent enzyme
These markers are individually within or near reference ranges. They are provided as supplementary context, not as standalone evidence of lead exposure. The Blood Lead Level is the definitive test.
If BLL confirms exposure
Consider: RBC zinc (CPT 84630), urine heavy metals panel (CPT 83018), and referral to environmental medicine.
Reference
Pizzorno JE. The Toxin Solution. HarperOne, 2017. Engine: Aven Clarity SG1 (proprietary). This document is informational and is not a diagnosis.
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— end of Sarah's journey