But does it, at least, contain things which might be harder to monitor from
blood samples?
>There are a lot of information in the blood. Kinase levels tell about
>muscle damage (esp. infarcts), there are several marker molecules for
>liver or kidney diseases, LDL and antibody levels are interesting and
>so on. But to interpret these results well you need some expertise,
>even 100% healthy people tend to have at least some odd values.
Interesting, because my suggestion was going to be to just get some
healthy ranges and warn users that the test kit is not foolproof.
>Anyway, I think there really exists fairly simple tests for many of
>these chemicals. What is needed now is packaging them together,
>creating a simple user interface and marketing it.
That sounds brilliant! Bundle together a bunch of simple tests and
market that.
>> I can imagine doing very simple tests, such as those of reaction time to
>> visual stimuli combined with a measurement of neurotransmitter levels...
>
>Yes, and a glucose level test together with some memory tests (this is
>something I actually plan to do later this spring).
Keep us posted.
Daniel Ust