I Found a Blood Test Built to Predict Death, Not Disease
MVX tracks mortality across several cohorts, but nobody has shown that lowering the score improves survival, or what a healthy person should do with the result.
MVX tracks mortality across several cohorts, but nobody has shown that lowering the score improves survival, or what a healthy person should do with the result.
In May 2026, three major papers landed on Lp(a) — the genetic cholesterol marker that 1 in 5 adults carry at risk levels and almost nobody gets tested for. Here’s what the new evidence says, what to do if your number is high, and the aspirin advice you should stop following.
My own doctor told me to quit creatine because a number on my bloodwork went up. That number was never measuring what he thought it was. I take creatine every day, and at my last physical my doctor told me to stop. His reason: my creatinine had crept up on the panel, and creatinine is
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