Function HealthReviews of functionhealth.com

I was a curious about my biomarkers as I age. More importantly, I was curious about what to do to correct any levels that suggested a problem. Function Health provides two blood draws a year. The first is about 10 vials of blood or so and they provide all sorts of instructions about how to prepare, what to stop, what to drink in advance, etc. The results are returned in an easy to read, understandable format a few weeks later. Three to four months after the initial draw, they remind you to schedule a second blood draws, about half as many vials and they follow-up tests of key markers. Their website and materials do a great job of laying out exactly what they are going to do, and then they execute it and send a report, which I gave to my physician. The only thing I didn’t like was when scheduling the second visit the system makes you select or decline about 40 additional tests before you can schedule. That was annoying.

The number of tests for the price does make it worth it. The summery statement is vague and not particularly helpful. But knowing which biomarkers where out of range gave me enough information about where I need to put my effort to improve.

Great service in terms of cost and comprehensiveness of the blood panel. There was a bit of confusion around my test booking at Quest labs but the Function team helped sort it out. It is inconvenient to have to travel two hours each way to get my bloodwork done on two separate days, but it's manageable. However, I wish there were a standard way to set up tests for those of us who do have to travel so that only one day's tests have to be fasted (i.e., so that one can travel to the testing lab late one afternoon, do the non-fasted tests, stay overnight near the testing facility, and then the next morning do the fasted tests and travel home). I had to arrange this as a special thing and I think that was what led to the confusion about my booking at the lab.

Reasonable price for all the testing. My own PC wouldn’t have ordered most of these tests.

I thought the whole program was well organized. When I got to the lab, everything was already in place and ran like clockwork. I got my test results back in a timely manner. I would’ve preferred a few more specific concrete instructions moving forward once I had my full results.

Overall, love Function and very excited to continue using it for years to come! I've convinced my partner, both of my parents, and a handful of friends to try Function, too, and everyone is excited to invest in their health. That said, I found that the data visualization & analysis to be very disappointing — it looked like a robot spit out the most basic, obvious stuff and wrote it like... well, a robot. I exported everything to ChatGTP (and plan on doing that moving forward, as well) to get a more helpful understanding of my health.

Great follow up!

The information gleaned from these extensive labs is so insightful and useful for me and my family doctor to see trends BEFORE bad symptoms start manifesting. Way ahead of Standard of Care protocols. I appreciate the ease of use for the app and organization of data and follow up information. I would find the additional information helpful: an Optimal mark or number on the opening graph for each test (in addition to the green and red), a reference somewhere that tells us how dynamic the test results are (reflects the past 3 months or past 3 days, etc).