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Dr. Ashori MD's avatar

Check out this easy online quiz to find out your Healthy Aging Score. It includes several of these values discussed above: https://drashori.com/healthy-aging-score/

Chef Martin Oswald's avatar

Fantastic health advise, thank you Dr Ashori!

YOUR DOCTOR KLOVER's avatar

Really appreciated this framework because it respects two realities at once: (1) most people are overwhelmed by “everything panels,” and (2) a small set of repeatable markers can catch drifting physiology early enough to change the curve. Your inclusion criteria (actionable, affordable, outcome-relevant, trackable) is exactly how clinicians should think about screening. 

A few things you did especially well:

1. BP as a personal-risk target, not a universal number. That’s a clinically mature point; “<120/80 for everyone” can be great for some and destabilizing for others, depending on age, comorbidity, and symptoms. 

2. Fasting glucose + insulin (HOMA-IR) as an early metabolic signal is so much more useful than waiting for A1c to drift. I also like that you connect this to practical levers (sleep/stress, training zone, body composition). 

3. ApoB as the “athero-particle” metric is an important upgrade from the default lipid panel for many patients; simple, interpretable, and directly tied to atherosclerotic burden. 

4. And I love the inclusion of waist-to-height ratio; a free, at-home proxy for visceral adiposity that patients can actually own. 

The closing metaphor (“don’t try to catch a falling vase”) is the real medicine here: we don’t need more fear-driven testing; we need earlier, calmer feedback loops that make prevention feel doable!