Age Management Profile

The Meridian Valley Lab’s Age Management Panel offers clinicians a powerful tool to evaluate age-related biomarkers and help ensure health aging. There is no such thing as anti-aging medicine (we all age) but healthy aging is possible. The holistic clinical picture this lab profile gives you should be considered for anyone over 40 years old who is interested in preventive or holistic medicine.

The Age Management Panel can be performed on a fasting or non-fasting individual. The fasting panel includes the serum insulin level.

Two specific panels are offered, one for men and one for women. Each panel contains the following measurements:

• Insulin (fasting only)
• IGF-1 – indirect measure of Human Growth Hormone
• IGF-BP3
• Estradiol
• DHEA-S


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• Total Testosterone
• Free Testosterone
• Homocysteine
• High-sensitivity C-Reactive Protein
• PSA (male panel only)
• Progesterone (female panel only)
• Sex Hormone Binding Globulin
• Free T3
• Albumin

Hormonal health is investigated in both Age Management Panels by providing levels of Free Testosterone, Total Testosterone, and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin.

Evaluation of Estradiol, which is metabolized from Testosterone, reveals insight into aromatase status and its impact on age-specific diseases.

For men, Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is included as a marker for prostate health.

Progesterone, a naturally calming agent and antagonist to excess estrogens, is tested in women.

Cardiovascular health is assessed in the Age Management Panels by measuring High-sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Homocysteine.

Insulin-like Growth Factor Type 1 (IGF-1) generally decreases as we age. IGF-1 also varies as a function of human growth hormone levels, nutritional well-being, and gender. Low values have been linked to fibromyalgia, stress, and insulin resistance.

Fasting serum insulin can be included as an aid in the early diagnosis of diabetes and insulin resistance. Hyperinsulinemia with normal blood glucose is linked to hyperlipidemia, which is a lab marker for heart disease.

Highly cost effective. Meridian Valley Laboratory’s Age Management Panels offer you a holistic clinical picture that can assist you with healthy aging and preventative medicine.