Key Longevity Biomarkers
“Your blood never lies.”
– James B. Lavalle
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Health, performance, and longevity are inside-out propositions.
Learn your position on the continuum…
Fit yet unhealthy…
Performance Medicine™ has partnered with InsideTracker for biometric blood analysis and related services.
InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform that aims to help people optimize their health through biomarkers to live healthier, longer lives.
It does this by analyzing your biomarkers and real-time physiological data through fitness trackers, genetics, behaviors, and goals to provide personalized recommendations on nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress, and supplementation.
InsideTracker is a health platform that provides science-backed recommendations using detailed blood biomarker testing, DNA insights, and wearable device integration.
The platform’s mission is to bridge the gap between health span and lifespan, showcasing its commitment to proactive health management.
Its intuitive interface simplifies health insights and offers personalized recommendations based on a user’s comprehensive health profile and real-time data from wearable devices. The platform emphasizes optimal zones for each biomarker, making results actionable and easy to understand.
Blood biomarkers are dynamic and change over time. Routine blood analysis enables you to definitively map your progress, see optimized biomarkers, and identify areas of improvement throughout the year. Multiple blood test results allow us to evaluate and modify recommendations to optimize your biomarkers.
A biomarker is an indicator of your body’s physiological state.
Analyzing the physiological markers in your blood is a fast and effective way to discover your biometric benchmarks and measure the impact of lifestyle decisions. Biometric blood analysis goes beyond identifying generic “clinically normal” ranges to unveil your body’s unique, optimal biomarker zones.
The InsideTracker analyzes blood. Its expert, automated engine that drives the platform is continually reevaluated and refined by its Harvard, Tufts, and MIT scientists via information from cutting-edge scientific literature and bioinformatics analysis.
Its engine generates various potential nutrition, supplement, fitness, and lifestyle interventions customized to each client. In addition, its algorithms include more than 10,000 nutritional suggestions based on your blood results.
It provides daily, personalized, precise, data-driven recommendations for your nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle based on 48 biomarkers versus 10 or fewer typically offered in a physician’s office or lab.
This approach augments our nutrition and supplementation protocols in the spirit of epigenetic propensities. Biometric blood analysis represents an intuitive, streamlined, and educational interface to transcend health, performance, and longevity from the inside out.
Blood biomarkers indicate your body’s current state and the impact of your lifestyle choices from nutrition, supplementation, stress, sleep, inflammation, cognition, metabolism, microbiome, and more.
Find a few benefits below:
→ Vitamin and mineral deficiencies;
→ Update bodily changes as we age;
→ Track the unique needs of your body;
→ Identifies risk status for diseases;
→ Metabolism;
→ Hormone health;
→ Disease diagnosis;
→ Identify vital organ health;
→ Monitor treatment success or necessary modifications;
→ Much more
Blood analysis provides a powerful tool to improve your mental and physical performance, mitigate risks of chronic and degenerative diseases, and enhance your longevity. Blood analysis is most powerful when used to proactively monitor your health.
Blood tests allow you to take an inside look at your body and how it functions. Getting regular blood work is the closest thing we have to X-ray vision to see inside the body. Understanding your blood biomarkers – the molecular signs of health – will help you to make more informed decisions about your diet, lifestyle, fitness, and supplement choices.
Blood analysis will detect:
→ Risk status for conditions and disease;
→ Nutrient deficiencies;
→ Supplementation protocols;
→ Fitness programs to optimize results;
→ Diagnosis before the development of symptoms or complications;
→ Monitor chronic disease status and progression;
→ Check treatment success or modifications;
→ Vital organs health – kidneys, liver, heart, thyroid…
To propel your health, performance, and longevity in life and sport requires recalibration. Periodic blood testing as we age will help shift your lifestyle decisions in the spirit of aging gracefully. Find below five biomarkers that are key to your longevity.
→ Vitamin D;
→ hsCRP;
→ HbA1c;
→ LDL cholesterol;
→ Triglycerides
Vitamin D
Vitamin D is fat-soluble and promotes healthy aging via calcium absorption to support bone strength.
The following areas benefit from optimal Vitamin D levels:
→ Longevity;
→ Muscle mass;
→ Testosterone;
→ Cholesterol;
→ Sleep
Bone density refers to the amount of calcium and minerals in the bones. Bones containing more minerals are denser, so they tend to be stronger and less likely to break. Adequate Vitamin D levels become critical during the aging process to remain anti-fragile and avert certain medical conditions.
Vitamin D supports your immune system and thwarts immunosenescence. Vitamin D directly impacts protein synthesis to propel increased muscle mass and decrease fiber degradation.
Testosterone levels win with adequate Vitamin D while cholesterol and triglyceride levels become casualties. These benefits will improve your quality of sleep.
hs-CRP [high sensitivity C-reactive protein]
The following areas benefit from low hs-CRP levels:
→ Heart health;
→ Longevity;
→ Immune health
Inflammation is a natural immune system response to protect itself from pathogens, injury, and cellular senescence. Acute inflammation is normal but chronic inflammation is detrimental to your health, performance, and longevity. Inflammation plays a critical role in maintaining the immune system and heart function. It is a part of the aging process.
Chronic inflammation is a precursor for heart disease, metabolic syndrome, oxidative stress, accelerated aging, and diabetes. Mitigating inflammation must be a priority to preserve physical, biological, and mental health during the aging process. Understanding the impact of heart rate variability [HRV] is vital to heart health.
HbA1c [Hemoglobin | blood glucose test]
The following areas benefit from proper blood sugar biomarkers:
→ Metabolism;
→ Sleep;
→ Longevity
Glucose is the primary fuel source for your body and must be properly regulated to promote healthy metabolism function. Fasting glucose is measured after a period of fasting – typically 12 hours. The level of your fasting glucose identifies a lot about your metabolism and metabolic efficiency.
Metabolism refers to how your body utilizes food/fuel for energy. Stored glucose binds with hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Prolonged, elevated glucose levels are directly related to impaired metabolism. Glucose regulation often declines with age. Optimized glucose levels are directly proportional to longevity.
Glucose metabolism is influenced by sleep habits. Maintaining a regular sleep schedule will stabilize insulin levels and help to keep blood sugar in check.
A consistent sleep routine – though not glamorous – will sustain sleep metrics such as onset, disturbances, light, deep, and REM cycles, duration, and quality, which profoundly impact your health, performance, and longevity. Chronic sleep deprivation creates metabolic mayhem.
LDL Cholesterol [low-density lipoprotein]
The following areas benefit from optimal LDL levels:
Low-density lipoprotein is one of the five major groups of lipoprotein that transport all fat molecules around the body in extracellular water. It is no secret low LDL [bad] cholesterol is impactful on longevity. Chronic HDL [high-density lipoprotein] levels is the nemesis to optimal health – especially your cardiovascular system.
→ Heart health;
→ Metabolism;
→ Longevity
Chronic inflammation wreaks havoc on your arteries, capillaries, and venules. Endothelial cells represent the emanation of cardiovascular complications. The oxidation of LDL particulates creates unstable molecules breeding atherosclerosis and a host of other issues.
Cholesterol is essential for lipolysis [fat breakdown] and is a precursor respective to hormonal influence on the metabolic processes of the body – testosterone, estrogen, cortisol, and so forth. Optimal LDL cholesterol levels ensure metabolic processes seamlessly function.
Healthy LDL levels advance healthy aging. LDL cholesterol is an insidious demon absent a genetic predisposition, however, it is especially concerning when people have a genetic propensity for higher LDL levels – and are unaware of it. This includes ultra-endurance athletes who oftentimes are fit yet unhealthy.
LDL cholesterol levels are heavily influenced by our lifestyle choices – which can be genetically modified no matter one’s age or genetic predisposition.
Triglycerides
The following areas benefit from optimal LDL levels:
→ Metabolism;
→ Heart health;
→ Longevity
Triglycerides represent the most common fat type [lipid] stored in your blood until your body converts it to fuel. Consumption of more calories than your body needs for fuel usually results in an unhealthy level of triglycerides. The key is to reduce the amount of calories from simple carbohydrates and saturated fats.
Fat is the largest source of energy in the body – even if you are wispy. Endogenous fat is always available as a fuel source even though most endurance athletes fixate on replenishment via glucose and glycogen [carbohydrates – CHO]. Revisit metabolic efficiency.
High levels of triglycerides can elevate your risk of heart diseases, such as coronary artery disease – despite your level of fitness. Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and related metabolic diseases enter the mix when your lifestyle choices become compromised.
Maintaining optimal levels of triglycerides will likely enhance your healthspan and lifespan.
Learn more about biometric blood analysis options at Performance Medicine™.
