Insidetracker
Backlinks: 2024-11-27
I bought two of their "ultimate" tests back in ..2021? I got one age score (not great!) and have been able to upload results before and after using my tests.
Insidetracker framework for categorizing blood results is Low / Borerline Low / Normal / Optimized / Normal / Borderline High / High. Sometimes there is no "borderline" or "normal" on either side of optimized (it can go straight from optimized to low or high). On the overall score for a category, they use Needs work / Fair / Good / Optimal for the score out of 100. The thresholds are 50 / 70 / 85. Score is a weighted average. At a high level rollup, they use At Risk / Needs Improvement / Optimized.
From my 7 results on I have 2 at risk, 2 needing improvement, and 3 optimized. But in "categories" I have 4 good (which is "unoptimized") and 6 optimized. These categories along with the "list" view use all of the most recent results, combining them. At a "list" level it's 14 unoptimized and 35 optimized. Of the 14, 2 are red "high" and the rest are yellow "normal". The 2/2/3 out of 7 is just from my latest test, so it's reporting individual results from latest. Looking like the 2 "high" are going to be back in range based on first pieces of my results, still need the metabolic panel to make sure those stay in range!
As of 2024-11-27, I'm back to having everything either normal or optimized! A few a on the edge of normal, but hey I've actually made progress here. It must be related to being more focused on endurance and running this year.
Albumin
I was being penalized for having 5.2 (too high) and it looks high on via reference ranges from Mass General. That's in the top 2% of my age from InsideTracker ("You’re part of the 2% of males aged 34-36 who have Albumin between 5.1-5.3 g/dL"). Yet, I get penalized that 4.4 was too low for the innerAge calculation, looks like I needed a 4.7. They have a target range of 3.6 to 5.1 for the reporting.
Albumin is a marker of liver function that generally peaks at age 20, then decreases with age. People who maintain higher albumin levels into older years tend to have greater muscle mass and lower inflammation than people with lower albumin levels.
If you go to your bloodwork page, you may notice that your albumin level is optimal, but is increasing your InnerAge. The biomarkers on your bloodwork page fall into a set of ranges based on clinical (standard laboratory) values and research literature. Y our InnerAge biomarkers, however, use a different set of ranges based on measures of longevity. Using advanced technology and data, we developed these new ranges to more accurately reflect longevity and InnerAge.
Reference ranges ATTACH
Let's pull all of their reference ranges.
In terms of thresholds, we have 6 thresholds to split those 7 categories. I only want to specify them where they're unique. From the above we split normal into high low and remove the optimal label so that each of these is a threshold:
Low / Borerline Low / Normal Low / Normal High / Borderline High / High
minG/maxG are the optimized range. minA/maxA are the nortmal range (this is also duplicated in min/maxNearNormal) min/maxBorderLine are the borderline ranges.
I've attached a JSON with the ranges: ranges.json.