For APOE4 carriers who want to beat the odds

Beat the odds.Outsmart Alzheimer's.

Know what to do next, and whether it's working. Build your personal protocol around your genes, your bloodwork and what works for carriers like you.

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Kevin, founder, carries APOE4/4Dr. John Yoder, memberDeb Blum, memberDr. Gertrude Behan, memberDonna Dorans, memberRobin Shwetzer, member

Learn from 708+ APOE4 carriers. See what helped, what didn't, and what to try next. Your results add to what we learn together.

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Your personal APOE4 protocol

Recommends what's nextlearning from 708+ APOE4 carriers' experiments

Choose your next step

your personal protocol, based on your genes and bloodwork

You follow your protocol

See what's working for you

track changes in your own blood test results

Refines your protocol
Active carriers
708+
150 new join every month
Improve an APOE4 biomarker
89%
Within 3 months · self-reported
Biomarker readings logged
31,000+
Every logged result teaches us what works and what doesn’t for APOE4 carriers.
The signal problem

You can't afford to guess.

All of this “advice” came from a doctor, a podcast or a study. Half of it contradicts the other half. None of it was written for your genotype.

The signal

One protocol.
Tuned to your genotype.
Proved by your bloodwork.

708+carriers running it27markers watched89%see a marker move
The math of APOE4

Your risk isn't fixed.
It's a number you can move.

An APOE 4/4 genotype can push lifetime Alzheimer's risk toward 60 percent. In the FINGER trial, APOE4 carriers got 2.6× more cognitive benefit from multidomain intervention than non-carriers. The gene loads the dice. It doesn't throw them.

Genin 2011Ngandu 2015 (FINGER)Fortea 2024
Lifetime risk by age 85Scale 0–100%
~60%
APOE 4/4 untreated
Measured · Genin 2011
~22%
APOE 4/4 optimized
Modeled · FINGER-style protocol
About 63% lower risk in the optimized scenario
How it works

Your personal protocol. Tested against your own results.

Start with what matters for your genes. Track what you do, review your progress, and use your own numbers to decide what to keep or change.

Your protocol

What to try first, ranked for your genes and your bloodwork.

800+ APOE4 papers
1,300 live clinical trials
What worked for carriers like you
Personalized to your health profile

Daily check-in

90 seconds to record what you do and how you feel.

Supplements
Movement
Sleep
Nutrition
Your monthly review

Your progress

Bring your 90-day blood test. See what improved and what needs to change.

89%of members improve at least one APOE4 biomarker within 3 months.
27 biomarkers
Learn from each other

708+ carriers are testing what works for their genes. Learn from their results, then check it with your own.

708+ APOE4 carriers
You don't run it alone

Your carrier circle. 2–4 people who get it.
Working on the same goals as you.

New carrier circles form on the 1st of every month. Members in a circle stay consistent 3.2x longer than members going it alone.

Pod matching opens monthly
Your carrier circle
Marker discipline. Record every start, stop, and dose.
Sample circle
You
Deb
John
Donna
Deb7:14 a.m.
Held the glucose protocol all month and kept every pound of muscle. It wasn't one supplement. It was staying consistent because you all check in on me.
John9:02 a.m.
That's the push I needed. My p-tau came back 0.09, half the borderline threshold.
Phoenix AI · Pattern detection

Five members. Five different stacks. One thing in common.

Each lowered LDL-C on a stack that looks nothing like the others. Phoenix AI reads across all five and surfaces the one intervention they share.

Member 1
APOE3/4 · 62 · F
14298mg/dL−31%
Vitamin D3
Creatine
Magnesium threonate
Ezetimibe
Lithium orotate
Member 2
APOE4/4 · 58 · M
163121mg/dL−26%
Glycine
Ezetimibe
Vitamin K2
Curcumin
Taurine
Member 3
APOE3/4 · 47 · F
12889mg/dL−30%
Lutein
Magnesium glycinate
Ezetimibe
NAC
Vitamin C
Member 4
APOE4/4 · 56 · F
171112mg/dL−35%
Ezetimibe
Vitamin D3
Vitamin B12
Folate
Melatonin
Member 5
APOE4/4 · 43 · M
151109mg/dL−28%
Creatine
Lithium orotate
Zinc
Ezetimibe
Citicoline
Pattern found
Ezetimibe
5 / 5
members share it
−30%
median LDL-C change
Illustrative members · intervention names from the Phoenix library
Phoenix AI · Members like you

You want to lower fasting insulin. Your twins already did.

Phoenix matches you to members who share your profile, then ranks what actually moved their number.

You
Female55APOE4/4HbA1c 5.7%Insulin 14 µIU/mL
12 members share your profile
9 lowered fasting insulin
What worked for them
ranked by twins who improved
Berberine
−31%9 of 12 twins
Zone-2 cardio · 3×/wk
−27%7 of 12 twins
Time-restricted eating
−24%6 of 12 twins
Alpha-lipoic acid
−18%5 of 12 twins
Magnesium glycinate
−9%4 of 12 twins
Illustrative · change = median fasting-insulin change across twins who logged the intervention and retested
What you'll track

The lab said normal. For a 4/4 carrier, it isn't.

27 markers, each read against its medical context rather than one guessed universal range. Here are four of them.

Biomarker
Lab “normal”
Phoenix target
Why the gap matters
ApoB
mg/dL
Lab normal< 90
Phoenix targetBy risk tier
Phoenix uses the reviewed cardiovascular risk tier instead of assigning a target from APOE4 alone.
pTau-217
pg/mL
Lab normalNot run
Phoenix targetBy assay
Nobody orders it. It detects Alzheimer's pathology up to 20 years before symptoms.
Omega-3 Index
%
Lab normal> 4
Phoenix target> 8
APOE4 brains are starved for DHA. The standard floor is half what you need.
hs-CRP
mg/L
Lab normal< 3.0
Phoenix targetRisk context
APOE4 brains run hot. Chronic inflammation multiplies amyloid deposition rather than adding to it.
+ 23 more in the dashboard · every range backed by a peer-reviewed citation
See the full framework
Why we check in

Your daily check-in makes every change count.

Track what you do and how you feel in 90 seconds. Your check-ins connect daily habits to your blood test results, so you can see what is working.

Today

Learn what worked for carriers who share your genotype and biomarkers. Use their results to choose your next step, then measure your own progress.

Tomorrow

Your results show how your body responds. That record tells you which future precision-medicine treatments are most likely to work for you.

Step 1You check in90 seconds: sleep, energy, brain fog, what you took
Step 2Carriers like youAI matches your data to members like you; their wins become your recommendations
Step 3Your drug matchYour pathway map meets tomorrow's precision medicine: know which drugs you'd hyper-respond to

Join 708+ carriers turning daily habits into answers you can use.

Members

The proof is in their bloodwork.

Three of dozens. Real names, real genotypes, real numbers they moved.

Portrait of Dr. John Yoder
Dr. John Yoder, 68
Retired Physician · Missouri
3/4
0.09
p-tau · half of borderline
Verified by labs

I would have never heard of P-tau testing without this group. Even if none of this prevents Alzheimer’s, I’m living these years healthy and energetic.

Portrait of Robin P. Shwetzer
Robin P. Shwetzer, 62
NBC-HWC Coach · Florida
3/4
5.7 → 5.4
A1C · brain fog gone
Verified by labs

A1C 5.7 to 5.4 on keto-flex, brain fog gone in about a month. Homocysteine 13 to 7 with methylated B vitamins.

Portrait of Donna Dorans
Donna Dorans, 72
Year 10 since diagnosis
4/4
Intact
Cognition · decade with 4/4
Verified by family

It’s like I found my people. The Phoenix app is building something personal that works for me, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.

Three of dozens · full interviews, deltas, and screenshots on the stories page
Browse every story
Do you want to let your destiny be up to your genes, or do you want to have some agency?
— Deb Blum, APOE 4/4Watch Deb's full story
The evidence

Where every claim on this page comes from.

What the outside literature says about APOE4, and what real Phoenix member data shows moving alongside it.

The Know, Act, Proof, Together loop that turns your bloodwork into a tested next step.

Every APOE4 trial on ClinicalTrials.gov, browsable by state and recruiting status.

Dr. Kevin Tran, Doctor of Pharmacy, APOE 4/4 carrier, founder of Phoenix
Dr. Kevin Tran
DOCTOR OF PHARMACY · APOE 4/4 · MEMBER 001
Who built this

I carry the same genotype you do.

Phoenix is a one-person, founder-led startup. I spent years working on Alzheimer’s and it turns out I carry two copies of the highest risk gene. When my result came back, my doctor told me what yours probably did: “come back when you have symptoms”. This is unacceptable. I read 800 papers, consulted 40 researchers and experts, and built the protocol and community I needed.

Read more about me

“I built Phoenix because I needed it. Now we build it together.”

Dr. Kevin Tran, APOE 4/4
Start now

Don't wait for symptoms.
Start today.

Start with a personal protocol and people who understand. Check your progress with your own numbers. New carrier circles form monthly.

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