Siphox Blood Testing

[glpfun]

Siphox is a blood testing company that uses a novel approach using silicon photonics. They promise many biomarkers without much blood, but they are far more conservative in the amount of markers they can do (around 20 with 8 drops of blood) than other people who have made similar claims in the past. I tried them out recently and did some of the same blood tests at quest to compare. The collections were a week apart so not the best comparison, but thought I’d share the percent differences between the markers I compared.

LDL 24% with siphox lower

HDL 6.5% with siphox higher

Triglycerides 24% with siphox higher

Total Cholesterol/HDL ratio 19.7% with siphox lower

Testosterone total 4% with siphox lower

Hemoglobin A1C 7.6% with siphox lower

I’m excited for this company because I feel like theranos set back this field by several decades by making investors bearish on viable technology that was contemporary to theranos. They are working on an at home device.

Anyone else have experience with them?

 

[GimmeABreak]

Is it me or do these results seem fairly inaccurate from your lab test. Triglycerides 24% higher? Which one do YOU trust?

 

[glpfun]

Is it me or do these results seem fairly inaccurate from your lab test. Triglycerides 24% higher? Which one do YOU trust?

Quest is more trustworthy, they are conventional testing like LabCorp. Yes the siphox results are not great by comparison. I expected some things to be off and some to be close, like the testosterone level was really close. Hoping the tech is solid and just unrefined still but hard to find out much about their approach