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.
My Fitomics account didn’t have my home address associated with the requistions they generated. I didn’t realize this was a problem until after the first req processed, and nothing showed on the patient.labcorp site. (Fitomics did send results.) Turns out ‘addess’ is part of the identifying info needed to get your result associated with the proper account.
I got the missing results connected to my patient.labcorp account by emailing details from the req via this form: Contact Us - Labcorp Patient Portal | Labcorp I didn’t know what identifying info they might need, so I included the date/time of service, who ordered, and various identifier numbers from the header information. The next day, I got an email saying results should now show up and they did.
I had already generated several reqs with a missing address, so each time I used one, I had the Labcorp intake person update the req with my address and that suceeded in getting them to show up on the portal.
Next time you take a life extension req in for blood draw, ask if your addess is on the labcorp req, and if it isn’t, have them add it. Should work, IME.
Thank you, myblood.ai was exactly what I was looking for, and gives me the metrics as well. Their prices for blood test seem to be much lower than any of the other companies that I’ve used.
Next time you take a life extension req in for blood draw, ask if your addess is on the labcorp req, and if it isn’t, have them add it. Should work, IME.
Amuser, I think you’re referring to having the blood test report through Life Extension appear in your (or my) LabCorp Portal Account. It’s good to insure that the proper address and other data are correct, but Life Extension blood reports simply will not appear in my Patient LabCorp Account Portal even though they are in my account (says the LabCorp representative). I’ve checked twice (years ago and today) directly with a LabCorp representative. Today, the representative said the reason was that Life Extension was a web-based testing service. Well, that confused the devil out of me. So I tried to get a better explanation, but that is all she knew about it. What this means for me is that after several years of ordering some good comprehensive tests through Life Extension I am actively looking to do more with Marek Health and likely myblood.ai . The LabCorp Account allows me to do a variety of reports that check through all of my former blood work to show trends, but does not include the LE blood reports. For me, those reports are valuable but incomplete without the LE reports.
The pricing at Goodlabs is really good (see below). I’ve just ordered a bunch:
There is a basic $12 blood draw fee, then you order all the tests you want and the fees are added to that $12 for a total cost.
Here’s a summary table of all the pricing information I found on that page (for panels and a la carte tests). Note: the “+” in many cases suggests there may be additional fees (e.g. lab draw fee).
Category / Test
Number of biomarkers (if given)
Price
Panels
Comprehensive Men’s
73
$200+
Comprehensive Women’s
73
$200+
Anemia
26
$60+
Heart Health
10
$60+
A la carte tests
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy
1
$14
Apolipoprotein B
1
$12
Complete Blood Count (CBC) with Differential / Platelet
I’m looking around to see which labs I want, and while at it, I discovered you can upload your past labs.
I uploaded a couple of past labs to see if they would be shown in a graphs so you can easily spot your progress (I don’t see that it does this), but you once you upload your results, you can then export in csv format, so that way we can put them into our own excel doc without having to manually enter everything.
And, it automatically tells you your phenoage (mine was -1755 years, so I’m hoping this is meaningful, but I am a skeptic :), your ACC 10 year heart disease score (I’m assuming this one is useless because I have CVD and it gave me a 1.34% chance) And it loads your Bortz age (there was a recent thread on this) and will indicate which labs you need to calculate it (I’m short two biomarkers, cystatin c and ggt).
This site gets cooler and cooler. It will give you an AI analysis if you feed it enough information, and it’s telling me things I’ve never heard before.
It pointed out my Anion Gap (which I’ve never heard of) was out of range. It notes that might have been due to dehydration. I’ve included a couple of screen shots below.
Anyone,
which labs do I need to add to my order to get an updated Anion Gap? (I am sure @John_Hemming will know!). I googled and am unclear.
It tells me I should be careful about becoming insulin resistant. I’m not sure what else I should do, but knowing my CGM results, this is not surprising.
@rapadmin, you should find your referral code and post it becasue you and the user will get 20% off. You are the one who found it, so I want to make sure you get that perk!
This is great, thx. Now I know what I should include in my labs request.
I imagine it is from dehydration because when I go to get labs done I’m fasting which means I go as early as possible because fasting in the morning is a form of torture to me, and I have not even had my coffee yet…
@Beth fwiw when I use the albumin corrected method to calculate anion gap I do fall within normal limits. Without the corrected calculation though I’m slightly elevated. I’ve been that way off and on and I’m not 100% sure of the reason.
I did become symptomatic suddenly with virus about 18 hours after my last lab draw so I think the illness brewing might have had a slight impact on some of my lab results.
