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Insights from Leaders in Health & Wellness
From baseline health assessment to insight on HRT & TRT dosage, and weight management. Discover how leaders in health and wellness are using GlycanAge to understand and improve their clientâs biological age.
Clinical Application
Baseline Health Evaluation & Intervention Monitoring
Clinical Challenge:
Patients often come in for general health optimization without clear disease or complaint. It's difficult to quantify âhow healthyâ someone is or how much they improve with lifestyle changes or supplements, as well as keep the patient motivated throughout the treatment program.
How GlycanAge Helps:
GlycanAge offers an initial biological age benchmark to assess an individual's baseline health, which is crucial for those looking to promote healthy aging. It then allows for continuous monitoring of the effectiveness of personalized programs, including lifestyle interventions like supplements, nutrition, exercise, and sleep.
This process adds clinical objectivity to these programs, ultimately improving user engagement and retention.
Initial consultation
The clinic begins with a comprehensive review of the patientâs health history, lifestyle, and goals to identify key areas for optimization and disease prevention.
Baseline GlycanAge test
A GlycanAge test is performed to establish an objective measure of biological age and immune system aging, providing a benchmark against which future interventions can be evaluated.
Custom health plan
Based on consultation findings, GlycanAge results, and other metrics, a personalized health plan is developed. This may include targeted nutrition, supplements, exercise programs, sleep optimization, and stress management strategies.
Retesting every 6 months to monitor effect
Patients are retested biannually to track biological and immunological changes, ensuring the program is delivering measurable improvements in systemic health.
Adjust and optimize as needed
If results plateau or regress, the care plan is adjusted to address any underlying driversâranging from nutrient deficiencies to underlying conditions impacting immune aging.
Yearly GlycanAge re-test after optimized results
After the patient achieves and maintains optimal biological age, testing frequency is reduced to annual re-evaluations to ensure long-term stability and continued prevention benefits.
Program Use Case
Weight Management Programs & Drug-Based Interventions
Clinical Challenge:
Weight loss, especially when rapid or medication-induced, can have mixed impacts on health, sometimes even leading to muscle loss or metabolic disruption.
How GlycanAge Helps:
GlycanAge helps track whether weight loss initiatives are genuinely leading to improvements in biological age and can monitor for potential inflammatory responses or muscle loss that might accompany aggressive fat loss.
This provides a valuable layer of accountability and personalization, particularly when individuals are undergoing prescribed treatments such as GLP-1 agonists or other weight loss drugs, by giving insight into the body's response in relation to chronic inflammation.
Start of weight loss program (baseline test)
Weight loss is initiated with a medication-assisted approach, followed by comprehensive lifestyle care. GlycanAge testing is performed to measure biological age, immune system aging, and inflammatory status.
Quarterly GlycanAge retests
Testing is repeated to track biological and immunological changes. This helps differentiate expected improvements from less favorable patterns sometimes seen with medication-assisted weight loss, such as plateauing.
Adjust diet, medication, or exercise accordingly
If results indicate suboptimal progress, the care plan is adjusted. This may include modifying nutritional intake, changing medication dosage or duration, enhancing physical activity, or addressing other immune-aging drivers such as stress or emotional burden.
Validate health benefits of fat loss
GlycanAge confirms whether weight loss has translated into meaningful reductions in biological age and improvements in glycan indexesâensuring benefits extend beyond weight reduction to overall systemic health.
Real-World Application
Personalized Dose Titration & Optimization in HRT and TRT
Clinical Challenge:
Titrating hormone therapy based on symptoms and standard blood work alone often leads to suboptimal results. There's a lack of a real-time, non-subjective health status marker.
How GlycanAge Helps:
GlycanAge acts as a sensitive proxy for chronic inflammation, which is a process largely regulated by estrogen. By tracking an individual's biological age response to interventions like Hormone or Testosterone Replacement Therapy (HRT/TRT), it can help identify potential under- or over-dosing.
This provides an objective, data-driven feedback loop for both patients and their healthcare providers to make more informed decisions about treatment adjustments.
Baseline Test
Each patientâs GlycanAge is measured to establish a biomarker of immune system aging. This provides a clear reference point to capture the pro-inflammatory shift common in perimenopause and early post-menopause.
Start HRT
Hormone replacement therapy is initiated according to the patientâs clinical profile, laboratory results, and symptoms. GlycanAge is used to monitor the therapyâs effect on reversing immune aging patterns.
Retest at 3-6 Months
Patients are retested to assess biological and immunological response. Typical positive changes include reductions in biological age and Glycan Mature, along with recovery of Glycan Youth and Shield.
Adjust dose based on GlycanAge
If results show limited improvement, hormone doses and formulations are adjusted. GlycanAge changes provide objective feedback on cumulative hormone effects and immune aging trends.
Repeat until optimal results stabilize
Testing and dose adjustments continue until gains in biological and immune age stabilize. Patients then move into long-term monitoring.
Offer Biological Age Testing in Your Clinic
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