The new home blood testing processes employ technologies such as liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry that allow these tests to be performed with very high sensitivity and specificity using minute quantities of blood blotted onto an absorbent, paper-like medium that keeps the sample stable for a lengthy period of time.

Simple, affordable home blood testing is a real game-changer in the arena of informed, self-directed healthcare.  For the first time broad access to home blood testing, on a scale similar to that enjoyed by persons who routinely test their blood sugar, is available to virtually everyone and it removes doctors as the gatekeepers of these tests.  Even private insurance companies and Medicare are beginning to understand the potential for improving healthcare and decreasing costs and are slowly beginning to expand coverage of home blood testing much as they do for diabetics or persons taking anti-coagulants.

This is an exciting development for anyone interested in taking greater control over and responsibility for their health through practicing informed, self-directed, healthcare.  This is an especially exciting prospect for heart disease sufferers who may want to more closely and conveniently monitor their cholesterol, thyroid function, hormones, supplements, etc. as part of a personalized and intensive heart disease prevention and reversal program.

Looking out for your heart health,

Hearthawk