The idea certainly excites me.
Given the possibility that some findings might lead to the need for medication, are you going to have MDs or PAs or whoever on staff who can prescribe those?
For metabolites found in very low concentrations where draw-to-draw variance is high, how do you deal with that when a person is only sending you one sample at a time?
Is there ever going to be any effort to have this payable by health insurance?
Are you doing anything with the feedback data? As in, someone sends you a sample, you tell them to make a behavioral change, does your advice change if future samples don't show a positive intervention effect? How do you know if patients comply with your recommendations?
Are you going to offer genetic testing so, say, someone with high LDL or whatever can know if that's due to diet or they just lost the genetic lottery and nothing but statins can possibly help them?
I think LDL is not a metabolite but since your "what's measured" page ends with "more published below" and then there is nothing below, I'm not sure what the full extent is of what you're testing for. If not LDL, presumably something you're testing for can have many sources, including genetic propensity, diet, and other environmental factors. How do you determine which of those is most causally relevant before prescribing an intervention?
Given the possibility that some findings might lead to the need for medication, are you going to have MDs or PAs or whoever on staff who can prescribe those?
For metabolites found in very low concentrations where draw-to-draw variance is high, how do you deal with that when a person is only sending you one sample at a time?
Is there ever going to be any effort to have this payable by health insurance?
Are you doing anything with the feedback data? As in, someone sends you a sample, you tell them to make a behavioral change, does your advice change if future samples don't show a positive intervention effect? How do you know if patients comply with your recommendations?
Are you going to offer genetic testing so, say, someone with high LDL or whatever can know if that's due to diet or they just lost the genetic lottery and nothing but statins can possibly help them?
I think LDL is not a metabolite but since your "what's measured" page ends with "more published below" and then there is nothing below, I'm not sure what the full extent is of what you're testing for. If not LDL, presumably something you're testing for can have many sources, including genetic propensity, diet, and other environmental factors. How do you determine which of those is most causally relevant before prescribing an intervention?