What bloodwork should I have before starting anything injectable?
At minimum a comprehensive metabolic panel, a complete blood count, a full lipid panel, HbA1c and fasting insulin, thyroid function, and the relevant hormone markers for your age and sex. Without a baseline you cannot tell later whether anything changed, and you may miss a reason not to start at all.
Why a baseline is the whole point
Six months into any protocol, the only question that matters is whether your numbers moved. If you never measured them at the start, there is no answer — just how you feel, which is a poor instrument and strongly influenced by having spent money.
A baseline also catches the things that change the plan. Untreated thyroid disease, impaired kidney function, an unrecognised anaemia or a blood-sugar picture nobody had looked at will all alter what makes sense, and some of them explain the symptoms that sent you looking in the first place.
What a comprehensive panel covers
Metabolic and organ function: glucose, electrolytes, kidney markers, liver enzymes. Blood count: red cells, white cells, platelets. Cardiovascular: a full lipid panel, and ApoB where it is available. Metabolic health: HbA1c and fasting insulin, which between them say far more than fasting glucose alone.
Then the markers specific to you — thyroid, vitamin D, iron studies, inflammatory markers, and the hormone panel appropriate to your age and sex. The point is a picture, not a single number.
How this works here
At Marina del Rey the sequence is a physician consultation, a comprehensive biomarker panel drawn on site, and then a plan built on what the results show. Outside labs are accepted if they are under three months old.
Follow-up panels are what tell you whether to continue, change or stop. That is the part people skip, and it is the part that makes the difference.
General information, not medical advice, and not a substitute for seeing a clinician who can assess you. Cryohealthcare Marina del Rey is a wellness practice; our treatments are not medical treatments and do not treat medical disease. We do not sell peptides or prescription medication from this website.
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A physician consultation and a comprehensive biomarker panel at 4256 Lincoln Blvd, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. Outside labs accepted if they are under three months old.