Epigenetic testing reads how your body is actually aging — biological age, telomere length, pace of aging — so the plan has a number to move, and a way to prove it moved.
Your DNA does not change with age. What changes is how it is marked — chemical tags called methylation that switch genes on and off, and that shift in patterns closely tied to aging. Reading thousands of those sites at once produces an estimate of biological age: how your body is functioning relative to the calendar.
It is a measurement, not a diagnosis. What makes it worth doing is the second test. A single number is interesting; a number that moves after a year of real work is evidence the plan is doing something, and evidence is the entire point of practising this way.
One collection, run by TruDiagnostic on an epigenetic methylation panel. It reports:
An estimate of how your body is aging relative to your birthday, including the OMICm biological age measure.
The protective caps at the ends of your chromosomes, reported alongside the rest rather than sold as a number on its own.
In-depth reads across the markers that track with aging, giving Dr. Dean more to work with than a single score.
Markers reflecting the measurable effects of smoking and alcohol on your biology — specific, not moralized.
Price shown is for initial testing and is confirmed at your consultation before anything is ordered.
PACE is the follow-up kit — a rate-of-aging marker used after the baseline, once there has been enough time and enough change for the biology to answer. It turns a plan into something you can check rather than believe. Priced at your consultation.
TruAge Complete is collected in office alongside your comprehensive labs.
Dr. Dean reads the result with your hormone and metabolic panels — one picture, not two.
What is driving the number, what changes it, and what will not. In writing, in plain language.
PACE or a repeat panel on a sensible interval, to see whether the plan is doing what it claimed.
The plan follows the data. What is not working gets changed or dropped.
A separate blood test, offered here for patients who want it: Galleri looks for DNA fragments shed into the bloodstream that can carry a signal shared by many cancers, and where a signal is found it reports a predicted origin to guide the workup that follows.
It is prescribed and interpreted by Dr. Dean, and it is an addition to recommended screening — not a replacement for mammography, colonoscopy, or anything else your physicians have advised. A positive result is a reason for diagnostic follow-up, not a diagnosis, and a negative result does not rule cancer out. Discussed and priced at your consultation.
Biological age is an estimate produced by a model, and estimates carry error. These are wellness and longevity measurements: they do not diagnose disease, they do not replace standard medical care, and no result here is a promise about how long you will live. What they do well is give a plan something to aim at and a way to check itself. Individual results vary.
Chronological age counts birthdays. Biological age is an estimate of how your body is functioning relative to that, read from chemical marks on your DNA called methylation patterns. Two people born the same year can test years apart. It is a measurement, not a diagnosis.
Yes. TruAge Complete reports telomere length alongside biological age, pace of aging, and markers reflecting the impact of smoking and alcohol. Telomere length is one input among several rather than the whole picture, which is why we read it with your other labs.
TruAge Complete is $650 for initial testing. The PACE retest and the Galleri screen are quoted at your consultation, and nothing is ordered before you know the price.
Once you have a baseline, retesting is what makes the number useful — it shows whether the plan is moving your biology in the right direction. Dr. Dean sets the interval based on what you are doing between tests, and generally not more often than the biology can meaningfully change.
No. Biological age testing is a wellness and longevity measurement. It does not diagnose disease and it does not replace cancer screening, cardiovascular workup, or care from your other physicians. Where something needs a specialist, we refer.
No. Testing is available on its own, and it is also a natural starting point inside the longevity and executive memberships, where retesting and the plan around it are part of ongoing care.
The long-horizon plan this testing belongs to — diagnostics, optimization and review over years.
Comprehensive labs, an individualized plan, and dose adjustment driven by repeat testing.
Deep diagnostics and recovery support for adults who train and want the next decade to hold.
Where ongoing testing, review and adjustment live as continuing care rather than one-off visits.
Start with a consultation and your baseline. You will know the plan and the price before anything is ordered.
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