TESTING IS IMPORTANT
What do YOU need to focus on? Every person has different medical issues. Some people are at higher risk for heart disease and diabetes, for others it is cancer or dementia. When looking at aging and biohacking, you cannot throw all your energy in every direction. It would be overwhelming.
Additionally, modern medicine tends to be more reactionary.
- they test when there is a suspected issue;
- the minimum of testing is done;
- there isn’t an in-depth risk assessment done early
- testing for things like biologic age just isn’t done.
When you biohack, you need to bring science to this process. Not everyone has issues with blood sugar or cholesterol or cancer risk. Not everyone needs to take magnesium.
We at Biohackr Health are bringing science to this wild west of proactive, individualized medicine that goes beyond what most of you see at your doctor’s office. You need to figure out what YOUR issues are. Test and focus on treating your issues. When you do a treatment, was it effective? If not, do you need to change the dose? The medicine? Come at it from a different angle?
Testing is a key component.
SCREEN
So we test to screen. This usually involves more comprehensive panel testing to see where you fall out of normal.
This will help guide what you need to focus on next. If your HbA1c is normal, that indicates your body has good blood sugar regulation. That means you don’t need a continuous glucose monitor. If your HbA1c is elevated, you do need a CGM to see how you react to food and exercise. It will let you see if interventions- how you eat, when you eat, what you eat, your exercise level, the Biohackr probiotic which helps with glucose control, increasing muscle mass with exercise and our Biohackr Creatine, metformin, semaglutide – are making a difference.
FOCAL TESTING
We test focal issues. Many of you already know what your issues are.
We can help you go beyond traditional tests and do a deeper dive to stratify your risk and give possible treatment options. Strong family history of heart disease? You need a mix of testing. These are available in some of our panels or as add-ons.
- Cholesterol: a comprehensive cholesterol panel which includes ApoB, lipoprotein a, LDL, HDL, and homocysteine,
- Blood sugar panel
- Hormone levels. Particularly if post menopausal, estrogen is known to be cardioprotective. What is your level?
- Cardiac Calcium scan. This test done at a local hospital scans the arteries of your heart to see if you have calcification. This has been found to show disease in patients who are asymptomatic and young.
When you do these tests, it will help guide what YOU need to focus on. Depending on your results, you may need a statin, hormone replacement, metformin or semaglutide, a continuous glucose monitor, and other treatments.
Our clinic is a brick and mortar clinic. We have levels of advice and care, including meeting with a MD, depending on what you need.
DID IT WORK? The need to restest
We then test to see if what you are doing is working. When doing an intervention- like taking NAD+- you need to understand:
- How deficient were you?
- When you start taking NAD, what amount should you take?
- After a few months, you need to reassess.
- Retest. Where are you now?
- Adjust based on findings: Do you need to change your dose? Did it make a tangible difference to how you feel?
TESTING DONE IN OUR CLINIC
Hate going to the lab to get blood drawn? The wait?
We do too.
At Biohackr Health, our nurses will draw your blood on time in the comfort of our clinic. One stop, quick and easy.
We send out the tests to the corresponding accredited labs.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN? What to do with test results
There are many programs out there which will do labs, but then you have to figure out yourself what it means or “take it to your doctor” to get a treatment.
There are other programs out there which cost $$$ for a doctor to one on one walk you through the tests and what the interventions can be. Some of those programs can cost $50-100K/year.
Biohackr Health aims to bridge this gap.
- For many simple tests, our staff knows what the next steps are. Common things are common, and we have protocols set up.
- We are a clinic, with locations where you can get many of the treatments you will need.
- For those who want a more in depth meeting, we also have one on one consultations with medical staff who focus on this healthspan space.
