Get Blue Member Reduces LDL 19%

He was advised by everyone to eat healthier and exercise more – advice he was already putting into practice.

MEMBER STORY

MALE | 30 YEARS OLD

A Get Blue member uploaded his lab results to the platform and had abnormally high LDL. Everyone told him to exercise more and eat healthier foods. He was already doing both, and his LDL had not moved. Get Blue read his labs, wearables and habits together and matched an intervention to his profile: aged garlic extract.

The first retest barely moved his LDL. We read that as under-dosed, not as a failed protocol. We held the protocol, doubled the dose after reviewing the labs, and the second retest confirmed the change.

THE SCIENCE

THE LITERATURE BEHIND THE PROTOCOL 

Get Blue matches interventions using peer-reviewed, randomized, double-blind trials rather than observational reports. This includes a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study of aged garlic extract in moderately hypercholesterolemic men¹ — matching this member's demographic. A supporting meta-analysis² also showed that garlic preparations improve LDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein A, and inflammatory markers like CRP.

THE DOSE RESPONSE LOGIC

Response to a given intake varies between individuals. A flat result at one dose is not evidence that an intervention is inert. It can indicate the intake sits below that person's response threshold. Increasing the dose before abandoning the protocol is standard dose response reasoning, and it is only possible when a retest is scheduled to read the result.

WHY THE RETEST MATTERS

Every protocol Get Blue recommends is written taking into account user’s health data. In this case, it was the member’s lab results. Without the retest there is no way to separate an intervention that is not working from one that is not.

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