We’ll have to see where this new startup goes… At least they have a nice user interface design (at first glance):
It seems like some sort of blood test and biomarker tracking company (perhaps similar to Tally without the supplements?). If anyone finds out the pricing, please post here.
I’ve used Function health. It’s not cheap but does have benefit of convenience and it’s fairly comprehensive. They have add-ons you can do like Grail and Apo-e that is a nice convenience. They have clinician notes which they provide with your results, which are pretty useless and boilerplate. All that said, I’ll probably discontinue and go with more targeted labs like with “ownyourlabs” site, which is also good.
My go-to place is Life Extension. They are LabCorp’s largest wholesale client and offer hundreds of tests through them for less than LabCorp’s prices on the small number that they offer to the public. The basic NMR cholesterol profile, for example, is $75.
I place my online order with Life Extension and in an hour or so, the LabCorp requisition arrives in my email.
I’ve used many: Ulta, Genova, Life Extension, Marek, and ownyourlabs. The main difference is price, products available, and speed with which you will get the lab slip, from a few hours to a few days. Marek and ownyourlabs were a little slow, but excellent price. Of course, the test results are as good as the lab it is sent to and have nothing to do with the companies listed.
I like Empowerxlab.com for the ApoE (for early Alzheimer’s Disease), they also have multiple other tests - I think the only others I’d choose with them is the MTHFR Gene Test for Methylation, and their PFAS Exposure Blood test. These are self ordered.
I like OmegaQuant (also self ordered) for Omega 3 Index.
I like TruDiagnostic for DNA Methylation, Dunedin Pace and OMIC.
Good marketing - but we’ll see. Right now they look like a health oriented drug store (with supplements, etc.) online. A rather strange business model to be honest. Anyone can pay a digital marketing agency some good money to create a nice ad, its a lot harder to develop good software, if thats what they are also doing.
There is something important about the struggle to understand what is going wrong inside your body, and to struggle and fail and try again and again to improve it. It’s the struggle that leads to the mindset change that allows the lifestyle change that is necessary.
At first people say, I’d rather be unhealthy than give up my few pleasures in life. Then they say “genetics”. Then “I don’t know what to do”.
These services that promise to provide a clear answer and an instruction manual for how to improve health are just another quick, unsustainable fix. At best they only provide a pretty, precise looking approximate truth because that’s all that exists. It’s the checkout isle, impulse purchase that we do because we know we should but without any real commitment.
Is there a place/tool where we can put all of our blood test results. I have labs from CPL,Labcorp,Quest,Life Extension,UltraLab. Life Extension uses Labcorp but the data does not go into the Lapcorp portal. Marek diagnostics uses Labcorp and the data does go into the Lapcorp portal. Not sure way. UltraLab uses Quest but the data does not go into the Quest Portal. I could build a spreadsheet but this seems very manual. I would really like one place to combine all these results.
That’s odd; I have been using Ulta Lab for years, and the results always show up in my Quest portal. In addition, Ulta Labs provides a pretty convenient list of the results
By accident, I have learned that the data for Life Extensions reports are actually in the LabCorp system. On two occasions, my report was being held up past the time I needed it because of the time involved for a single test. LE was kind enough to ask LabCorp to email me what they had. Within the hour, I had a LabCorp branded, nicely formatted three page report that looked similar to Life Extension’s reports but had the additional feature of showing me the previous value for each individual test. The reason we cannot see LE reports in the LabCorp portal is probably by agreement between the two companies. Life Extension is pretty responsive. Perhaps if we could all ask them to consider our request.
You can use https://myblood.ai/ to upload old tests. I think they at least understand the labcorps format. You have to create an account, but don’t have to use them to schedule tests. I use another service to order my tests, since that’s s cheaper for me, and upload my results to pay with them.
Yes, I would be glad to add my name to a request to Life Extension regarding this issue.
As an example, I really like how Marek Health operates. When I order blood tests through them, all of my lab work—including tests from other sources—appears in my LabCorp account and is easily accessible through the LabCorp website. In contrast, blood tests ordered through Life Extension do not show up in my LabCorp portal. I can only access those results directly from Life Extension.
I asked about this over a year ago and was told that this is simply how their system is set up. I find it frustrating and don’t understand why Life Extension doesn’t allow users to freely access their lab results through LabCorp like other providers do.
If someone could organize a mass request urging Life Extension to make our bloodwork available through the LabCorp portal, I would fully support that.
As a side note, I appreciate that LabCorp stores all of my blood tests and lets me generate historical trend reports across years of blood test results. That’s far more convenient than digging through individual blood report PDFs to track specific markers. Unfortunately, Life Extension offers no such functionality.
