{"id":145,"date":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/how-often-should-you-actually-retest\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:00:00","slug":"how-often-should-you-actually-retest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/how-often-should-you-actually-retest\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should you really retest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simple rhythm: once a year when things are steady, and twelve weeks after any change worth measuring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jul 1, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Owen Gallagher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The honest answer: less often than most testing companies would like. Markers change at different speeds, and retesting faster than a marker can move tells you nothing beyond how noisy the assay is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A schedule that works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most healthy adults, one full panel a year is plenty. After you start a supplement, a medication or a hard training block, recheck the specific markers at twelve weeks: long enough to move, soon enough to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The exceptions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferritin after iron therapy, HbA1c after a metabolic change and thyroid after a borderline result each need their own timeline. Lp(a) is measured once in a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your report always lists which markers to recheck and when, so you\u2019re not left guessing between appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Owen Gallagher<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longevity medicine, Tinsdale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple rhythm: once a year when things are steady, and twelve weeks after any change worth measuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}