15 posts
Most blood analytes do not change enough in a month to beat their own noise. Here is the short panel worth drawing monthly, what belongs on a slower cadence, and how to standardize the draw so the numbers mean something.
A quantitative high-sensitivity CRP assay, repeated on a schedule and paired with a CBC differential, is the only at-home inflammation measurement worth acting on. Here is how to collect it, when to collect it, and how to analyze the series.
There is no single best vendor. What matters is assay methodology, longitudinal consistency, and whether you can get structured data out. Here is how we compare the options and what a 100-biomarker panel really contains.
A specific panel for athletes, the pre-analytical protocol that makes the numbers comparable over time, and how to compute your own reference intervals instead of relying on population ranges.
How to choose an at-home C-reactive protein test, why the high-sensitivity assay matters, and how to analyze repeated CRP measurements without fooling yourself with biological noise.
Population reference intervals are built from non-athletes, and the few published athlete cohorts are wide and sport-specific. The usable answer is a personal baseline with a computed reference change value.
What biomarker labs measure, why panel size is a poor proxy for quality, and how to build a blood panel you can reason about over time.
A working list of blood, molecular, and continuous biomarkers worth tracking on yourself, with the biological-variation math that tells you when a change is real and when it is noise.
Which vitamin and mineral analytes are worth measuring, which ones are nearly uninterpretable in serum, and how preanalytical handling and inflammation decide whether your panel means anything.
A working guide to the five standard inflammation markers, from hs-CRP to IL-6. Covers what each tracks, noise in a single value and sample handling.
A fitness or gym blood panel is only interpretable if you control what you did in the 72 hours before the draw. Here is the panel we would order, the confounders that corrupt it, and how to analyze the results over time.
What a blood biomarker test measures, what it costs and how to get the numbers out. Covers the math that shows whether a change between draws is real.
The 56-biomarker performance panels sold as a full-body MOT test the wrong thing in the wrong way. Here is the panel we would order, how to control preanalytics, and how many repeats you need before a number means anything.
A technical guide to choosing and using a biomarker testing service: what analytes are worth measuring, what the analytical error looks like, how to store and version the results, and where a clinician has to be involved.
There is no single 'Huberman blood test.' Here is the panel that gets discussed on the podcast, which markers carry real signal, and how to get the data in a form you can analyze yourself.