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I monitor my hs-crp quite regularly (multiple times a year). 1. How is this different from a test you can order? 2. hs-crp is quite variable, especially for p
by jeswin 4y ago
I monitor my hs-crp quite regularly (multiple times a year).
1. How is this different from a test you can order?
2. hs-crp is quite variable, especially for people who are predisposed to inflammation. I really don't know if I can make any sense of it [1]. Given that the plans on your website (but not this HN post) suggest a lower frequency than my own testing, I'm a bit skeptical of this product (or service).
> For example, you may get an insight like - you have had ginger 15 of the last 30 days and your inflammation levels are down 10%.
You have no proven numbers or data, and you're just saying you MAY find a correlation. Have you published anything that validates the efficacy of your product, other than an experiment with N=1?
[1]: Edit/Add - From your own tracking sheet, how can you tell whether the first 2.9mg/L in your graph is not an outlier, since that's when you started measuring and hs-crp can be elevated for a number of reasons (cold, flu, infection, sleep, stress)? Maybe your baseline hs-crp is ~1mg/L.
Add: there is no doubt that fitness improves hs-crp. My hs-crp before the pandemic (when I was playing every day) - 1.4mg/L. After 2 years of inactivity: 5mg/L.
- elcritch 4y agoThat's good to know about hsCRP. How much does your personal testing cost? IIUC, they're not planning to provide a solution but rather a tool with a dashboard and some statistical insights. Even statistical insights could be problematic given how the FDA limited 23andme. Personally the FDA was overly eager, as the 23andme actually gave me some very helpful, if too late, knowledge on my genetic predisposition to an AI condition. Well depending on how they execute it might be really helpful or not. The per test cost seems fairly high too.
- jeswin 4y agoIt's super cheap for me, I live in India - roughly $6. But even in the US, it seems to be cheaper than with Be Golden. Their value proposition seems to be the statistical insights - which they hope to have once enough people sign up (but that's also an untested claim really). Personally I think testing helps, at the very least you may get motivated enough to do something about it.
- 5ersi 4y agoJust checked - in Slovenia a hsCRP is 8 eur (private testing, no healthcare participation): https://www.synlab.si/seznam-in-cenik-preiskav/crp-visoko-obcutljiv.html https://www.synlab.si/seznam-in-cenik-preiskav/crp-visoko-ob...