Why I Just Gave 15 Vials of Blood at NextHealth

Visiting NextHealth in Los Angeles to See and Experience Proactive Healthcare in Action

I’m coming off a real high having just been to LA and San Diego over this past week and not just because I had my face bathed in some awesome infrared radiation with a “Light Stim” (see this IG post and be sure to give me follow 😉). No, I’m jazzed because I FINALLY visited NextHealth in Century City, LA - and let me tell you, it was a life changing experience!

What is NextHealth?

NextHealth refer to themselves as a “Health Optimisation and Longevity Center” - as you can imagine, I fit quite squarely into their market segment (I am trying to Biohack my way to a vibrant, healthy, long life after all). They do everything from cryotherapy to dermatology and IV vitamin infusions to blood testing.

Why Did I Visit NextHealth?

This time I was out for blood 💉!!

NextHealth offers a few blood test products that I was very interested in for supporting my longevity journey. These are:

• Total Baseline

• Food Sensitivity Testing

And then, upon further digging into some other options during my visit to the site, I decided to also add on:

• Genomic Fit

• Micronutrient Testing

My Motivation: Get Feedback and Optimise

There is simply no way to start to introduce all of the different things that will be covered by the above blood tests, those are quite extensive! But I do have a select number of things that drew me to these blood test options, by blood test product they are:

• Total Baseline:

  • I was very interested in my NMR spectroscopy results so I can better understand what the particles sizes make up my LDL cholesterol

  • I am in my early 30s and undertaking many ‘hacks’ to keep my testosterone high - are they working? (dutch test hormone data!)

• Micronutrient Testing

  • I have an aggressive supplement regimen (30+ supplements a day and climbing), and micronutrient testing will help me adjust the levels of supplementation very accurately

• Genomic Fit

  • I am interested in optimising my diet and athletic performance (going for a sub-20 minute 5K at the moment) and ‘Genomic Fit’ will give me some actionable info on this

• Food Sensitivity Testing

  • Figuring what foods you are sensitive to (different from being allergic) is very difficult to do with dietary testing alone, and I can tell I still have some foods in my diet that give me inflammation - what are they? I must know so I can ban them and protect my gut lining!

All Up I Gave 15 Vials of Blood in the Name of Science

“It’s less blood than it looks like”, Ashley, the gorgeous phlebotomist let me know. “We’re almost done”

Good, cause I was totally light-headed already.

“Yeah, I passed out once when I gave about 30x vials for a scientific research study”, I let her know. “But don’t worry, I totally gave that nurse a heads up that I was on my way out”, I joked.

She just laughed and smiled re-assuringly (and probably thinking “God, don’t let this guy fall over on me…”). Thankfully Nick stayed conscious this time, and just like she promised - the blood draw was over quite quickly.

And might I say - it was an exceptionally professional job done on the blood draw, complete with a comfortable chair and warm-up blanket over the arm to kick it off. A smoother experience than I have had in many hospitals!

While I’m Waiting for the Blood Test Results…

I am not going to get my blood results back until early December, so this story is far from reaching its conclusion. In fact that visit to NextHealth was so life-changing, I easily have 10-15 more blog posts I’d like to write about it.

One thing is for sure, I will have plenty of material to work with. I once again am going to find myself with a stack of amazing health data to dig through! It is my plan to walk through some key lessons I learn from those blood results in upcoming blog posts, so be sure to subscribe to the blog if you’d like to see what happens!