{"id":1806,"date":"2022-09-27T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:38:35","slug":"blood-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/blood-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I previously <a href=\"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/29\/baze\/\">sounded vaguely optimistic<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baze.com\/\">Baze<\/a> blood test technology. They shut down their blood test service this spring, &#8220;for the foreseeable future&#8221;. Their web site suggests that they plan to resume it someday. I don&#8217;t have much hope that they&#8217;ll resume selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after I posted about Baze, they stopped reporting numbers for magnesium, vitamin D, and vitamin B12. I.e. they only told me results such as &#8220;low&#8221;, &#8220;optimal&#8221;, &#8220;normal&#8221;, etc. This was apparently was due to FDA regulations, although I&#8217;m unclear why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to believe that Baze is working on getting permission to report results the way that companies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeextension.com\/vitamins-supplements\/blood-tests\">Life Extension<\/a> report a wide variety of tests that are conducted via LabCorp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At roughly the same time, Thorne Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorne.com\/press-releases\/study-confirms-reliability-of-the-onedraw-blood-collection-device-in-remote-blood-sample-collection-at-home\">announced<\/a> study results of a device that sounds very similar to the Baze device (maybe a bit more reliable?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thorne is partly a supplement company, but also already has enough of a focus on testing that I don&#8217;t expect it to use tests primarily for selling vitamins, the way Baze did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m debating whether to invest in Thorne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously sounded vaguely optimistic about the Baze blood test technology. They shut down their blood test service this spring, &#8220;for the foreseeable future&#8221;. Their web site suggests that they plan to resume it someday. I don&#8217;t have much hope that they&#8217;ll resume selling it. Shortly after I posted about Baze, they stopped reporting numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-t8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}