Aliquot #153: What Routine Blood Work Can Miss
Aliquot #153: What Routine Blood Work Can Miss
Routine blood panels capture only part of what we can measure about our health. Additional biomarkers and emerging tools such as proteomics, metabolomics, and biological aging clocks may provide a more detailed picture of disease risk and aging. In this Aliquot, Drs. Michael Snyder, Steve Horvath, and I explore what these measurements may reveal.
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Routine blood panels capture only part of what we can measure about our health. Additional biomarkers and emerging tools such as proteomics, metabolomics, and biological aging clocks may provide a more detailed picture of disease risk and aging. In this Aliquot, Drs. Michael Snyder, Steve Horvath, and I explore what these measurements may reveal.
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Blood tests worth adding to your annual checkup
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Key biomarkers for inflammation, iron status, and heart health
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How reliable are biological age tests?
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How proteomics and metabolomics could personalize medicine
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How different organs age at different rates
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What epigenetic clocks reveal about aging
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