Cue, the home lab for quantified self

Re:Cue, the home lab for quantified self by jcomis on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:31PM (#7744923)

If you go to the "product" page, it tells you what they are testing for on each.

Testosterone: saliva sample, free testosterone

Fertility: blood sample, Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

Inflammation: blood sample, C Reactive Protien

Vitamin D: blood sample, 25(OH)D Vitamin D

Flu: nostril swab, Influenza A

any further thoughts?

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Re:Cue, the home lab for quantified self by bobowzki on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @02:21PM (#7745272)

I think it's kind of a weird panel of tests. I wonder what selection criteria they had.

Testosterone: still not sure why you would like to test this regularly at home. But I'm not an endocrinologist.

CRP: Very unspecfic marker of inflamation.

LH: I guess I was wrong and this could be quite useful http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/950047

Vitamin D: Severe depletion can give you unspecific symptoms so it's not bad. There's just no need to test it more than once really. If you are depleted just take supplements.

Flu: Still beats me why this would be useful other than general interest (which sometimes is enough I guess).

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Re:Cue, the home lab for quantified self by jfischoff on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @03:23PM (#7745726)

> Flu: Still beats me why this would be useful other than general interest (which sometimes is enough I guess).

Babies

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