6 posts
A working guide to hs-CRP, ESR, fibrinogen, ferritin, and IL-6: what each marker tracks, how much of a single value is noise, how to handle samples so cytokine numbers mean something, and where affinity proteomics panels go beyond the standard five.
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, how to get the numbers out in a form you can compute on, and the math that tells you whether a change between two 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.