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https://www.ultalabtests.com uses Quest
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Genova Diagnostics (has friction like requiring doctor’s Rx). The ION panel requires Rx it’s so annoying
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Life Extension Lab tests [ uses labcorp]
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https://marekdiagnostics.com/ (labcorp)
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Heavy Metals Profile I Blood Test | Walk-In Lab [uses both labcorp and quest]
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ownyourlabs.com [uses labcorp, Restricted states are: NY, NJ, RI, MA, and MD]
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Rupa Health https://www.rupahealth.com
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Blood Testing Cost Comparison (hippEvo uses labcorp)
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.
Quest and labcorp have online test ordering.
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.
Incredible design. Longevity and Health Acceleration coded.
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.
It’s the commitment that matters.
Keep struggling.