Home sampling as an innovative approach
Home testing offers a convenient and innovative way to check important health metrics directly from home. With increasing availability and technological development, home testing is now safe, easy, and reliable, allowing many diagnostic tests to be conducted without a doctor's visit.
In this article, you will learn all about the benefits of home testing, which metrics can be checked, and why you can trust the accuracy of these tests.
During the pandemic, test-at-home kits became popular in Germany for the first time. The Guardian (English) also published an interesting article on the topic.
The advantages of home testing
Home testing offers a variety of advantages that make it a popular choice for people of all ages:
- Convenience and Flexibility: Home tests can be conducted at any time and place. No waiting for doctor appointments, no commuting, and no long waiting times – the tests fit into your schedule.
- Easy Execution: Most home tests are designed to be easily and safely conducted at home. The test kits, or test-at-home kits, contain detailed instructions, and sample collection, such as a small finger prick for a blood test, is completed in just a few minutes.
- Discretion and Privacy: Home testing provides the opportunity to discreetly determine sensitive health data.You will receive your test results confidentially and directly at home – without the need for a doctor's visit.
- Fast results: The results of home tests are often available within a few days. After sending in the sample, you will receive your health data online or via an app and can conveniently view it and take action if necessary.
- Early detection and prevention: Home tests make it easy, to regularly check certain health values. This allows potential health issues to be detected early, which is particularly important for the prevention and early detection of diseases.
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Keep track of your nutrient supply – for more energy and performance.
- Comprehensive analysis: Measurement of key nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, ferritin, folic acid, and vitamin D3.
- Early detection: Identifies deficiencies before they affect your health.
- Simple & flexible: Sampling conveniently from home with professional lab analysis.
This way, you can detect early on what your body is missing – and what it needs.
Tip: Our new Comprehensive Nutrient Checkoffers an even more complete picture of your nutrient levels.
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More than just Vitamin D – for a comprehensive assessment of your nutrient supply.
- Targeted Analysis: Measures Vitamin D, Calcium, and Magnesium – three closely linked values for bones, muscles, and the immune system.
Early Detection: Identifies deficiencies before they affect your well-being.
Convenient & reliable: Easily conduct sampling at home, access lab results digitally.
Good to know if your body is getting what it truly needs.
Tip: Our new Comprehensive Nutrient Checkoffers an even more extensive overview of vitamins and other nutrients.
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More than Cortisol!
Chronic stress often goes unnoticed – learn how your body reacts to it.
- Precise stress analysis: Measurement of cortisol, TSH (sensitive), magnesium, hemoglobin, folic acid, and transcobalamin to assess your stress levels and nutrient supply.
- Early detection: Identifies stressors and nutrient deficiencies before they affect your health.
- Convenient & discreet: Sample collection easily from home – professionally evaluated.
Identify potential stressors and gain valuable insights for your well-being.
Nutrient Check Premium
Keep track of your nutrient supply – for more energy and performance.
- Comprehensive analysis: Measurement of key nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, ferritin, folic acid, and vitamin D3.
- Early detection: Identifies deficiencies before they affect your health.
- Simple & flexible: Sampling conveniently from home with professional lab analysis.
This way, you can detect early on what your body is missing – and what it needs.
Tip: Our new Comprehensive Nutrient Checkoffers an even more complete picture of your nutrient levels.
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More than just Vitamin D – for a comprehensive assessment of your nutrient supply.
- Targeted Analysis: Measures Vitamin D, Calcium, and Magnesium – three closely linked values for bones, muscles, and the immune system.
Early Detection: Identifies deficiencies before they affect your well-being.
Convenient & reliable: Easily conduct sampling at home, access lab results digitally.
Good to know if your body is getting what it truly needs.
Tip: Our new Comprehensive Nutrient Checkoffers an even more extensive overview of vitamins and other nutrients.
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More than Cortisol!
Chronic stress often goes unnoticed – learn how your body reacts to it.
- Precise stress analysis: Measurement of cortisol, TSH (sensitive), magnesium, hemoglobin, folic acid, and transcobalamin to assess your stress levels and nutrient supply.
- Early detection: Identifies stressors and nutrient deficiencies before they affect your health.
- Convenient & discreet: Sample collection easily from home – professionally evaluated.
Identify potential stressors and gain valuable insights for your well-being.
Which health metrics can be checked with home testing?
The range of values that can be checked today through home testing is astonishing. Here are some of the key areas:
- Vitamin and mineral status: Tests for Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, magnesium, and other important nutrients help identify deficiencies and address them specifically.
- Hormone status: Home tests offer the opportunity to check hormone levels such as testosterone, estrogen, and cortisol . These values are crucial for well-being and help identify hormonal imbalances.
- Metabolic and blood sugar levels: With home tests, you can monitor blood sugar and HbA1c , which is particularly important for people at risk of diabetes.Additional metabolic markers such as cholesterol or triglycerides can be measured at home.
- Cardiovascular health: Values like LDL and HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood lipid levels provide insights into cardiovascular risk. Home tests facilitate regular monitoring of these important values.
- Inflammation and immune markers: Markers like CRP (C-reactive protein) can be measured through home tests and provide indications of acute or chronic inflammation in the body.
- Specific health checks: In addition to individual values, there are also comprehensive tests, such as the burnout check or tests for liver and kidney function.These tests provide a comprehensive assessment of health in specific areas.
Reliability and Security: Why You Can Trust Home Testing
An important concern for many people is the question of how accurate and reliable home tests are. Modern home tests are designed to offer high accuracy and reliability – on the level of medical laboratories. The following aspects ensure that you can trust the results:
- Certified Laboratories: The samples collected at home are analyzed in certified laboratories that operate according to strict quality standards . These laboratories are accredited and meet all requirements for accuracy and reliability.
- Simple and Safe Sample Collection: Home tests are carefully developed to make sample collection simple and safe . Detailed instructions and hygienic single-use products ensure that the samples are collected cleanly and accurately.
- Modern Analysis Methods: The procedures used in the laboratories are state-of-the-art and guarantee high precision. Even more complex analyses, such as determining hormone levels, are conducted using professional methods.
- Secure Data Transmission and Data Protection: The test results are transmitted to you securely and in compliance with data protection regulations. Your health data is confidential and processed in accordance with the highest data protection standards.
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Easy integration into everyday life
Another advantage of home testing is the ability to easily integrate it into daily life. Home tests can be conducted at home and fit into your routine. This means that regular health checks are no longer cumbersome and time-consuming. Instead, you can regularly monitor your health metrics and ensure that you always have an overview of your health status.
Conclusion: Home testing as a valuable support for your health
Home testing is an innovative and practical method to keep track of one's health. With a wide range of tests, from vitamin and hormone levels to blood sugar and inflammatory markers , home testing offers a valuable way to check health values conveniently, discreetly, and reliably. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology and certified laboratories, you can trust the accuracy of these tests and use the results as a basis for your health care.
Whether for regular monitoring, for early detection, or as a basis for targeted prevention – home testing makes it possible to actively shape one's health and stay informed.
