How to Make the Most of Your Function Health Data
The ability to order your own lab tests is one of the most empowering shifts in modern, consumer-driven medicine. No longer do you need to wait for your doctor to approve advanced testing—now you can access blood, stool, urine, saliva, and DNA tests with just a few clicks and a credit card. Curious about your hormones, inflammation levels, immune system, or microbiome? The answers are at your fingertips.
But once you have the data…then what? How do you actually use that information to improve your health?
Interpretation Is Everything
This is where things often fall apart. While companies like Function Health or Everlywell do a decent job summarizing results, they can only go so far without knowing your full medical history. That’s where we come in.
At Wellness Insights, we take the long view. We know our patients—not just their lab results. We know their stories. We track changes over months and years. Some of my patients have been with me for a decade or more. That continuity allows us to see your labs in context and interpret them in a much deeper, more meaningful way.
Beyond a Snapshot: Your Health Map & Trajectory
When you look at a single lab result, you're seeing just one frame in a much bigger movie. We help you build a map—using your history, symptoms, and past labs—to chart where you’ve been and where you're heading.
For example:
Let’s say your latest labs show a fasting glucose of 95 and an A1c of 5.3. Function Health flags nothing—you're technically within the “normal” range. But three years ago, your fasting glucose was 80, your A1c was 4.9, and you hadn’t yet gone through menopause, gained weight post-knee surgery, or seen your liver enzymes rise. Your blood pressure is now 135/85, and your triglycerides have crept from 85 to 105. Individually, none of these numbers raise red flags. But together, they reveal a trend—one that could point toward insulin resistance or early metabolic syndrome.
That’s the difference context makes.
Without it, your lab data is like arriving in a new city with no map. You might be in Paris, but without guidance, you’ll miss the Louvre—and all the treasures inside.
Let Us Be Your Guide
Whether you've already gotten your Function Health, or other company,, bring your labs to us—along with your story. We’ll help you make sense of it all. And if needed, we might recommend additional, more precise tools. In the case above, the patient might benefit from a 3-hour glucose tolerance test, continuous glucose monitor, or coronary artery calcium CT. Insights like these can help uncover your real risk for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes—long before they show up as “abnormal” on a standard report.
You deserve to truly understand your body. Let’s take your health insight to the next level—together.
Book a session with Katie, KC, or Natalie today.
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