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The Coastline Brief
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"Comprehensive" is not a regulated word. Two programs at the same price can differ enormously in what they measure and what they do with it. Here is what to look for, and the questions worth asking before you commit.
7 min read
The annual physical is a compliance document, and a good one. It is also completely different from instrumentation — and nobody runs a company off the smoke detector.
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A standard annual blood panel measures roughly a dozen markers, and reports them against reference ranges built from the general population. Here is what that design does well, what it was never built to do, and which measures the research keeps pointing to instead.
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