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The baseline panel we recommend.

One fasting draw, ten tests, orderable by any GP.

Before you change anything, measure where you are. The panel below is the minimum we recommend to every new member: one fasting morning blood draw that any New Zealand GP can request, carrying every marker Vitality Tracker’s computed indices and the Vitality Score are built from. It is a minimum, not a menu. Each test is here because something in VT reads it.

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Core: the required minimum

CoreTen tests on one request form · one fasting morning draw
  1. 01
    Full blood count with differential.
    Red cells, white cells, platelets and their proportions: inputs to PhenoAge and the inflammation indices, and the first place iron or recovery problems show.
  2. 02
    Lipid profile, fasting.
    Total, HDL and LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and non-HDL: the lipid picture and the ratios VT derives from it.
  3. 03
    HbA1c.
    Three months of average blood sugar in one number; 35% of your Vitality Score rests on this area.
  4. 04
    Fasting glucose.
    The morning number, read with HbA1c and, if you wear one, your glucose sensor.
  5. 05
    Liver function.
    ALT, AST, GGT, ALP, bilirubin, albumin and total protein: FIB-4, the steatosis index and two of PhenoAge’s inputs.
  6. 06
    Renal function and electrolytes.
    Creatinine, eGFR, urea, sodium and potassium: your kidney figure and another PhenoAge input. If you take creatine, read the note below.
  7. 07
    Urate.
    A metabolic marker that moves with diet, alcohol and weight.
  8. 08
    CRP, high-sensitivity if your lab offers it.
    Low-grade inflammation, and the marker ferritin has to be read against.
  9. 09
    Ferritin.
    Iron stores: too low and recovery and energy suffer; too high is worth a doctor’s eye.
  10. 10
    TSH.
    Thyroid, which moves weight, temperature, heart rate and energy in ways the rest of your data cannot explain on its own.
RecommendedEach one changes what VT can say
  1. Apolipoprotein B.
    The particle count behind your lipids and the better predictor; VT’s working target is below 0.8 g/L.
  2. Fasting insulin.
    With fasting glucose it gives HOMA-IR, which shows insulin resistance years before glucose does.
  3. Vitamin D.
    Once at the end of winter and once at the end of summer in your first year.
  4. Cystatin C,
    if you take creatine or carry little muscle: a kidney figure creatine cannot distort.
  5. Urine albumin/creatinine ratio.
    The kidney marker that moves first, and the one that matters with raised blood pressure or glucose.
  6. Vitamin B12 and folate,
    if you eat little or no animal food, take metformin, or are over 50.

Once in a lifetime

Once onlyOne test answers the question
  1. Lipoprotein(a).
    Set by your genes and stable through life; one test, in nmol/L, answers the question.

How to get it

Take this page to your GP: most of the core tier is funded when there is a reason to order it, and the rest can be added to the same draw as self-pay tests. Or order it privately through a self-pay service. Either way, ask for one fasting morning draw and, where you can, use the same laboratory every time.

Before the draw

Fast 10 to 12 hours (water only), no hard training or alcohol for 48 hours, no draw within two weeks of being unwell, and pause high-dose biotin for three days. Keep taking your usual supplements and medicines, and have them recorded in VT, because your results are read against them. Creatine raises creatinine without changing your kidneys; VT notes this beside the result when your Supplement Tracker holds creatine, and cystatin C gives a figure it cannot move.

Afterwards

Upload the report as a PDF or a photo. Eir reads it, extracts every result with its unit and the laboratory’s own range, and files it under its panel for you to confirm. VT then sets the re-test reminder for each marker, marks any result outside the laboratory’s range, and, if there are any, suggests a consultation: take your pre-visit report to your own GP, or book a video consultation with a doctor who works with Vitality Tracker.

Vitality Tracker describes and tracks your measures against your own history, for general wellness and for discussion with a health professional. It does not diagnose, predict or monitor any disease; what a result means for you is a conversation with your doctor.
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