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Genetics
What DNA testing can and can't predict
Precise for single genes, honestly vague for everything common. What consumer DNA tests measure and where the limits sit.
Women's health
Perimenopause and menopause: what testing can show
At the typical age, menopause is diagnosed without a blood test. Where testing genuinely earns its place - and where it cannot help.
Women's health
PCOS: which markers are involved
PCOS is diagnosed by criteria, not a single test. The androgen markers, the supporting cast, the exclusions and the metabolic half.
Women's health
Iron, periods and why deficiency is more common in women
Menstruation makes iron a budget under standing pressure. Why deficiency concentrates in women, and why ferritin is the gauge to watch.
Men's health
What's in a men's health check, by decade
Baseline in your twenties, risk pricing in your forties, shared decisions from fifty - and the constants that never leave the list.
Men's health
PSA testing: what it can and can't tell you
Useful enough to offer, imprecise enough that the decision must be yours. The honest trade in both directions, and the Australian position.
Thyroid
Thyroid antibodies: when TPO and TgAb are added
The "why" test behind TSH and T4 - when antibodies are added, what positive-with-normal-function means, and why tracking them adds nothing.
Heart health
Homocysteine: the marker that sits between heart and nutrition
Part cardiovascular marker, part B-vitamin readout - and a lesson in the difference between association and causation.
Heart health
Coronary calcium scoring: what the number means
The scan that reports arterial disease rather than estimating it - what the Agatston score means and who it genuinely helps.
General health
Heavy metals and environmental exposure testing
Genuinely valuable with a genuine exposure - and a field where hair analysis and provoked urine tests deserve naming by type.
Genetics
MTHFR: what the gene variant actually means
A variant carried by a third of humanity cannot explain individual symptoms. What MTHFR measurably does - and what the internet added.
Genetics
Haemochromatosis: Australia's most common inherited condition
Common, silent, visible in a standard iron panel, and fixable when found - the strongest case in Australian health for testing while well.
Genetics
Genetic risk or family history — which tells you more?
For common disease, the free information in your family tree performs comparably to the kit - and the combination beats either.
Genetics
Coeliac genetic testing: what a negative result rules out
The rare test bought for its no: a negative rules coeliac out permanently, works gluten-free, and spares relatives years of screening.
Genetics
Epigenetic age testing: how it differs from a DNA test
One reads the letters fixed at conception, the other reads the annotations life adds. Different questions from the same molecule.
Understanding results
How to track your progress with blood work
A single result is a snapshot. Retesting shows direction - if you compare it properly. What counts as a real change, and what is just noise.
Understanding results
Blood 101: what it is and what it does
Red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma — what each part of your blood does, and why it shows up on your results.
Understanding results
How do blood tests work?
From the collection chair to the lab bench — what actually happens to your sample, and how long each step takes.
Understanding results
What can you learn from a blood test?
Heart, glucose, blood count, liver, kidney, nutrition, thyroid and inflammation - a tour of what a standard panel covers and what it misses.
Heart health
Understanding results: cholesterol tests
LDL, HDL, triglycerides and total cholesterol — what each number means and why the ratio matters more than any one figure.
General health
Australia's health trends: what the data shows
Where Australian health is heading on weight, smoking, blood pressure and diet - and what the burden of disease data actually shows.
General health
Low energy: what your blood work can show
Iron, thyroid, B12 and glucose all show up in how you feel day to day. What testing can and can't explain about fatigue.
Hormones
Age and its effect on sex hormones
Testosterone, oestrogen and progesterone all shift with age on fairly predictable curves. What changes, and roughly when.
Heart health
Biomarker 101: Total cholesterol
The headline cholesterol number - what it adds up, why it is blunt on its own, and what to read alongside it.
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