Medicine 3.0

VO2max

Unboxing Calibre Biometrics’ revolutionary VO2max sensor

Calibre Biometrics have promised a revolutionary at home sensor that reaches lab-level accuracy for VO2max and RMR test. It finally arrived. Here is the unboxing video. It’s much smaller than I thought. I will post VO2max and RMR test videos as soon as it’s charged!

Hypertension

New Blood Pressure guideline: gotta keep it <120/<80

High Blood Pressure (aka. Hypertension) is known as the Silent Killer as it often goes undetected until it is too late. Many people have high blood pressure but are totally unaware of it since they have no noticeable symptoms. The fact that over the years the guidelines what constitutes “high” did not help. Recently the

Bloodwork, Supplements

Does Creatine cause Kidney Disease (spoiler: no it doesn’t!)

I really thought it was well known that Creatine does NOT cause kidney disease but merely messes with some of the more simplistic blood markers (creatinine) used to diagnose kidney disease (see Vega et al. 2019 or Longobardi et al. 2023)Certainly this is well known in longevity/biohacking/body building circles. However, even my PCP advised me

Bloodwork, Medicine 3.0

Check your bloodwork (regularly)!

I recently got a pretty comprehensive blood test done (via marekhealth/labcorb). Mostly no big surprises and in line with what I saw in my annual physical. However, I discovered that I had scary low iron saturation. I don’t really know why. Everyone asked whether I had recently donated blood — I had not. I think

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