By Russ Scala, Founder of Scala Precision Health

At Scala Precision Health, our mission is simple but powerful — to create an epiphany.

An epiphany is a moment of sudden, profound realization that changes one’s understanding forever. Our goal is to bring that moment to both patients and physicians — helping them see health through the lens of prevention, balance, and science, rather than symptom management and profit.

I’ve been in medicine since the 1970s, when I worked as a paramedic. I still remember walking into the homes of elderly patients—frail, weak, and often in pain. As I helped them from their beds onto my stretcher, I couldn’t ignore how thin they were, with no muscle mass or strength left to support them. On the counter, I’d gather five or more prescription bottles before heading to the hospital.

Even then, one question haunted me:

How is it that the wealthiest country in the world has no physicians trained to recognize and treat muscle loss (sarcopenia)?

Decades later, not much has changed. Just recently, a friend’s mother was hospitalized with an infection. Four different physicians visited her room—each prescribing new medications and IV antibiotics. Two of them simply stopped in to ask how she was feeling. After just four days, the hospital bill was over $40,000.

Her husband said something that perfectly captured the problem:

“It’s like buying an airline ticket, then getting separate bills from the co-pilot and the flight attendants.”

Nowhere else in America does pricing vary by tenfold depending on where you buy a service or product—except in healthcare.

The truth is, our medical system stopped focusing on health and science a long time ago. Instead, it’s focused on profits. Drug companies tell us it’s normal to charge Americans twice as much as people in other countries—and we accept it.

So, what can we do?

At Scala Precision Health, we believe in empowering people to take control of their health.
We help individuals and families build a community of support, gain access to the latest scientific research, and learn which lab tests truly matter. We also help educate physicians—so that together, patients and doctors can rebuild a real therapeutic partnership.

Here’s the truth: there are 155 medical schools in the U.S., yet almost none teach nutrition, hormonal balance, or gut health—the very foundations of wellness. Even fewer address cellular health and mitochondrial function, which are essential to understanding how the body truly heals.

That’s where the Scala Precision Health team shines.
We consult with people weekly—often at no cost—because we believe knowledge should be shared, not sold. Each person we educate becomes a ripple of change, passing life-saving information to friends and family.

This movement of empowered, informed individuals is known as Citizen Science—and it’s transforming healthcare as we know it. People who have reversed cancer, heart disease, and dementia are now sharing their stories publicly, becoming catalysts for a new era of medicine. Even large diagnostic companies like LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics now allow patients to order their own lab tests—bypassing traditional barriers that once delayed care for years.

Yes, greed built this system—but knowledge and community will change it.

As a paramedic, I’ve heard the same thing hundreds of times:

“Russ, I’m old. I’m tired of going to doctors every week.”

Now, at 67 years old, that truth resonates with me more than ever. I’ve lived it. As an endurance athlete, I once believed I was the picture of health—until years of overtraining nearly destroyed my heart. That experience in 1996 changed everything.

Today, after decades of study and practical application, Scala Precision Health offers some of the most advanced performance and longevity programs in the United States—designed not to treat disease, but to prevent it.

Because true healthcare begins with knowledge, compassion, and the courage to question what’s broken.