A standard lab flags you only once something is already wrong. We read the same blood against optimal ranges — and a physician tells you what to do about it.
Every option includes your bloodwork, a physician who reads it, personalized supplement and peptide guidance, the dietitian program and an InBody scan. What changes is how deep the panel goes.
A focused hormone and metabolic panel — enough to find what is actually driving how you feel.
Everything in Foundational, plus inflammation, IGF-1, homocysteine and iron — the markers that explain the ones above them.
Blood is one signal. This adds how fast you are aging, what you are short of, what you inherited and what is living in your gut.
Drawn at any Labcorp or Quest near you, with an at-home Tasso kit, or by a phlebotomist at your door. FSA/HSA eligible.
Most labs hand you a spreadsheet and leave the interpreting to you. Dr. Jim Bowen built our scoring model out of forty years of bloodwork-first practice: every marker weighted against optimal ranges, rolled into a single score, then broken back down by body system so you know where to look first.
Mayo Clinic–trained. Former Chief Medical Officer at Fountain Life. 40+ years in bloodwork-first and optimization medicine, and over 100,000 patients treated.
Illustrative figures. Your score is generated from your own panel and reviewed by an Apex MD physician.
vs a chronological age of 40. Built from the same panel as your score, so it moves when your markers do.
Your results don’t arrive as a PDF and vanish. They land in the Apex MD portal, where every marker keeps its history and its optimal band, a physician reads what changed, and our AI answers the questions you would otherwise sit on until your next visit.
One overall figure, broken down by body system, so you know where to look first instead of reading forty rows hoping something stands out.
Two results and you stop guessing. The portal shows the direction and the distance from optimal, not just today’s value.
Your provider reviews each panel against the last one and adjusts the protocol — the comparison is the point of testing again.
It reads your bloodwork, body composition and wearables together and answers in plain language, at 11pm when you actually have the question.
A reference range is built from the population that walked into a lab — not from people thriving. Normal sits on both sides of optimal. You can be well inside it and still be drifting the wrong way.
A standard lab reports this as within its reference range. Against the optimal band it is high, and trending away from it.
Reference ranges describe where most people fall, including people who are unwell. Matching the middle of that crowd is not a health goal.
One number tells you where you are. Two tell you where you are going, which is the part you can still change.
Every panel is reviewed by a licensed Apex MD provider who decides what, if anything, to do about it.
Each marker is plotted against its optimal band, panel after panel. The shaded band is where we want you; the line is where you actually are, and which way you are heading.
Climbed into the optimal band and held there.
Stable inside the band — which is the goal, not a flat result.
Corrected from deficient after a dose change in February.
Inflammation falling steadily — here, down is the win.
Illustrative trends. Your own charts are built from your panels and reviewed by an Apex MD physician.
Every panel is physician-ordered and drawn at a Labcorp or Quest near you, or with an at-home Tasso kit. Counts are the results that come back on your report.
The starting read for men — hormones, metabolic, thyroid and prostate.
The starting read for women — hormones, metabolic, thyroid and iron status.
Optional add-on: Progesterone
The full picture for men — adds inflammation, IGF-1, homocysteine and iron.
The full picture for women — adds inflammation, IGF-1, homocysteine and iron.
For men already on testosterone therapy — the markers that decide dosing.
For women already on hormone therapy — the markers that decide dosing.
Marker counts are the number of individual results reported. Where Labcorp and Quest report differently, we publish the lower figure so the number is true wherever you are drawn.
Every marker comes back with its optimal band, its direction since last time, and what actually moves it.
↓ 0.2 mg/dL vs last result
A waste product produced by muscle and cleared by the kidneys. Higher levels may indicate the kidneys are not filtering as well, though results must be read alongside factors like age and muscle mass.
Informational only — not clinical advice. Your provider interprets your results in context.
Not an algorithm, not a summary generated from your numbers and sent on. A licensed Apex MD provider reviews your results, decides what matters, and builds the protocol — then reviews the next panel against it.
Your age, history, medications and goals change what a number means. The same result is not the same finding in two different people.
A flagged marker comes with what to do about it — a protocol change, a supplement, a retest, or nothing at all.
The point of a second panel is the comparison. Your provider reads the direction, not just the latest figure.
Led by Dr. Jim Bowen, Chief Medical Officer — Mayo Clinic–trained, 40+ years in bloodwork-first and optimization medicine, and former Chief Medical Officer at Fountain Life. Over 100,000 patients treated across a national network of 1,000+ providers.
The best panel is the one that gets drawn. If a lab visit is what stops you, it doesn’t have to be part of this.
Walk into a patient service center near you. Your order is sent ahead electronically, so there is nothing to bring and nothing to arrange.
Thousands of locations nationwide.
A Tasso collection kit ships to your door. It takes under fifteen minutes, needs no needle you have to place, and comes with a prepaid return label. Results upload straight to your portal.
Best if you travel, or simply won’t make the trip.
A licensed phlebotomist comes to your home or office and draws a full venous sample — the same draw you would get at a lab, without the lab.
Best for comprehensive panels and anyone who would rather not do it themselves.
Bloodwork tells you what your body is doing right now. These four answer different questions — how fast you are aging, what you are short of, what you inherited, and what is living in your gut. Add any of them to a program, or start with the one that matches the question you actually have.
How fast your body is actually aging, at a cellular level — measured, not estimated from your birthday.
You feel older or younger than your years and want to know which, or you want a single number to move and then re-measure.
It becomes the baseline your protocol is judged against. Retested later, it is the clearest read on whether what you changed worked.
Hidden deficiencies affecting energy and metabolism, measured inside the cell rather than in serum alone.
You are tired, foggy or flat and your standard labs came back unremarkable — the classic “nothing’s wrong” result with something clearly wrong.
It replaces a shelf of guessed supplements with the few you actually need, at doses matched to the gap.
A one-time test that maps your genetic health blueprint — it never needs repeating.
You want to know what you are predisposed to before it shows up in blood, or family history has you asking questions bloodwork can’t answer.
It shapes every protocol afterwards — how you respond to certain peptides, nutrients and training loads. Peptide $299 · Lifestyle $399.
The gut ecosystem driving your metabolism, immune response and mood.
Digestion, bloating or food reactions are the thing you would fix first, or your metabolic markers will not move despite doing the work.
It targets what to feed and what to crowd out, instead of cycling through probiotics to see what sticks.
All four are included in the Longevity Program Elite. Any of them can be added to a Bloodwork-First program.
An annual physical, working it out yourself, or a coaching program. Here is where each one stops.
| Approach | Apex MD Bloodwork-First® | Annual physical | DIY biohacking | Generic wellness coaching |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary goal | Maximize functional capacity & quality of life | Detect disease | Trial & error protocols | General wellbeing |
| Personalized to your bloodwork | Yes — comprehensive biomarker analysis | Basic labs, reactive | Guessed from what you read | Rarely |
| Concierge support | Provider + dietitian + clinician | 15-minute annual checkup | On your own | Group coaching |
| Preventive optimization | Yes — before decline starts | Reactive, treats symptoms | Inconsistent | Not clinical |
| Ongoing monitoring | Quarterly bloodwork + adjustments | Once per year | Self-monitored | No medical oversight |
| Cost | $129 – $1,950 by program | $0 – $200 (insurance) | $200 – $500 | $100 – $300 |
Your annual physical is built to detect disease after it appears. Functionspan® is built to optimize function before decline shows up — strength, mobility, energy and independence over decades, not just “normal labs.”
Your plan starts with your own bloodwork rather than a general rule. Comprehensive labs show your hormone levels, metabolic markers, inflammation and recovery indicators, and nutrient gaps — and an Apex MD physician walks you through what they mean in a 30-minute consultation.
Everything is prescribed and monitored by a licensed provider. Peptides and hormone optimization are recommended only if your bloodwork supports them, supplements are matched to your own deficiencies, and quarterly labs track how you respond so your plan can be adjusted.
Programs start at $129, or $299 for the comprehensive panel. That includes your bloodwork, your physician consult, personalized supplement and peptide guidance, the dietitian program (covered by insurance for 99% of plans) and an InBody scan. Guesswork has a cost too: supplements and protocols your body doesn’t need. Programs are FSA/HSA approved.
Being healthy now is the best time to start, because this is preventive rather than reactive. After 40, strength, mobility and recovery tend to decline faster even in people who eat well and train. And normal isn’t optimal — standard lab ranges are wide, and bloodwork shows where you actually sit inside them.
You can read the research. What you can’t do on your own is order and interpret a full panel, prescribe where it’s warranted, and adjust every quarter as your numbers move. That is the difference between trial and error and a plan with a provider, a dietitian and a clinician behind it.
Dr. Bowen’s Functionspan® protocols have helped patients maintain functional capacity well into their 70s, 80s and beyond. Your plan is built around your current capacity and your goals, so where you start is where the plan starts.
There are no long-term contracts beyond the initial assessment period, and you can cancel any time after three months. Most people continue because quarterly bloodwork shows them what is changing.
Medication isn’t the goal — function is. Prescriptions are recommended only where your labs support them, and nutrition, fitness, targeted supplementation and monitoring are central to every plan. As your numbers change, your provider adjusts the plan with you.
Bloodwork is where optimization starts. Concierge is what it becomes: 100+ biomarkers, advanced diagnostics, a longevity protocol built and adjusted for you, and a physician you can reach — delivered to your door.
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