Bloodwork
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Am I statin eligible under the 2026 guideline? How to run your own numbers
The new risk calculator scores most people lower than the old one, and eligibility still went up by 21.5 million. The reason is a second clock nobody was running before.
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Can you lower Lp(a)? The drugs in trials, and why none is approved yet
For years the only advice on a high Lp(a) was to drive every other risk factor down, because nothing touched the number itself. Five drugs are about to change that, and the first real test of whether it matters has not reported yet.
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ApoB and Lp(a): what a normal cholesterol panel misses
A cholesterol panel can call you fine while the number that actually drives plaque sits unmeasured. Two markers, one of them a single lifetime test, fix that.
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How often to retest bloodwork: a cadence per marker class
Each marker has an equilibration time. Draw before it settles and you are measuring the transient, not the new baseline. Here is the cadence that fits the biology.
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Optimal vs normal blood test ranges (and why they differ)
Normal means inside the middle 95% of a reference population. It does not mean fine, and optimal is a different question entirely. Here is how to read both.