A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Fitness

For folks out there that have done InsideTracker or similar blood/biomarker tracking, how often do you do it and how useful has it been?

I did instalab.com in may!
I want to do it annually.

overall I liked it and found it reassuring I was on the right track for the most part.

I was an early customer so I got a free telehealth visit that I enjoyed.

as for the drawbacks
they tested for alz genetic predisposition and I rly did not want to know

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they also changed their standards out from under me! 1 of my test metrics went from “good” to “ok” when I went back to look@results 

When I talked to doc he said they “hold their patients to a higher standard”. On report I had “ok” vit d—doc told me that its fine, instalab looking for all star vit d

I have co-workers that have done it & made some lifestyle changes based on the results.

Shameless plug -- you can use your HSA / FSA with InsideTracker + Truemed.

i've done Inside Tracker 2x (latest - back in June), for me - it identified some biomarkers i wouldn't have known I was struggling with (e.g. ferretin, magnesium, cortisol, etc 🤣) & then within one month i was injured so...

my take is.. it's as useful as you want it to be! 🤦‍♀️