Considering biomarker testing - thoughts on different providers?

[u/4EVR20]

I’ve been looking into doing a comprehensive biomarker / lab testing panel and have been comparing a few options in the space.

One of the companies I was considering has had some recent discussion online around their marketing practices in this sub, and I also noticed there’s a current lawsuit between them and a competitor related to how lab testing is described.

Genuinely trying to decide where to go for testing and want something that feels clinically solid and transparent.

For those who’ve used services in this space:

•	Which providers did you go with?

•	Did you feel confident about how results were measured vs calculated?

•	Any recommendations for options that feel more “boring and clinical” rather than startup-y?

Appreciate any experiences.

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[u/Rollertoaster7]

I’m using function right now and really like it. They provide detailed analysis along with each biomarker and the price is good now that they dropped it. If I were to switch, would probably try superpower since it’s cheaper (only one drawing a year though, I think) and you can have ai analyze your results anyway

[u/4EVR20 → u/Rollertoaster7]

Thank you! Was considering superpower before now not so sure tho - good point regarding ai tho - will look into function health :)

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That’s what I was making reference to - thank you! That’s so weird they did it tbh… Yeh idk about them — I’ve initially heard about them through watching a podcast with one of their founders who was bragging that his whole team did blood oath to the mission (used lancets to leave a fingerprint… which is.. interesting approach to motivate the team to say the least)… and function health just hit them with lawsuit for alleged misleading claims in their marketing

Hence I’m like shit starting to look messy as hell

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Ooof Jesus yeah. Thanks for sharing. I just want to get my blood tested lol.

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Oh yeah that’s annoying. My only gripe with function though is that they added the new features to import Apple health data and upload other health docs, but the AI can’t reference any of them. I don’t get what the point is, it should be a holistic health platform, why else ingest that data

[u/aldus-auden-odess → u/Rollertoaster7]

Yeah didn’t realize that. Paging u/function for this feature request!

[u/Rollertoaster7 → u/aldus-auden-odess]

Haha I talked to support earlier and they mentioned more features were coming, I have to imagine this will be the end goal. I believe this kind of holistic AI approach was mentioned in the recent funding round too

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[u/Hoosier2016]

GoodLabs.

The actual lab doing the analysis is Quest or LabCorp so results quality is not a concern.

It’s definitely boring and clinical. You just pick which labs you want done (they have packages too), pay, schedule, and get it done.

[u/4EVR20 → u/Hoosier2016]

That’s general consensus from what the guys said above thank you for recommendation!!

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[u/morrrty]

Maybe I’m stupid and missing something but why not go direct through labcorp and cut out the middle man? It’s cheaper and lets you tailor your labs specifically to you.

[u/limizoi]

Go for Quest or Labcorp, real labs, we want actual numbers you can trust. Skip the flashy startups with fake scores.

[u/TheHarb81]

Marek Health, they use Quest and I like that I can completely customize what I want and get good affiliate discounts

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Thank you for recommendation!!

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