Vital360: Healthspan
Enjoy your best years with Vital360: Healthspan. Our healthy ageing tests focus on the most crucial metrics for health and longevity, giving you the best chance of living your years free from the health impediments that often accompany ageing.
At A Glance
Lab Testing
Bloodwork
Genetic Profile
Consultation
Nutritional
Live Healthier for Longer with Scientific Healthspan Testing
Many of us have seen loved grandparents and other older relations and friends diminish as they age, and have their capacity to enjoy life reduced by health complaints, disease, or injury. It doesn’t have to be this way. By getting accurate and relevant data about your personal risk factors, you can take action early and live strong, capable, and healthy for many more years.
Scientific testing gives you the information you need to take consistent and targeted action—exactly where you need it the most. Our strengths-based approach helps you utilise your test data to make informed decisions that propel you towards healthy and strong older years.
The Ultimate Healthy Ageing Solution
Preserve and improve muscle mass
Loss of muscle as we age has been linked to a reduction in the capacity to carry out everyday tasks. Preserving and building muscle mass is the key to maintaining mobility and capacity into older age.
Understand and reduce your cardiac risks
Taking early action to reduce cardiovascular risks and improve cardiovascular function will lead to lower incidences of cardiac events and greater enjoyment of day-to-day life.
Maintain bone health
Having strong and healthy bones will help keep you resilient in the face of falls. Bone density is important for everyone, but especially for women whose bone densities decline sharply after menopause if action is not taken.
Maintain and improve functional capacity
Ensuring you can move well is an essential part of remaining fit and healthy. Falls in older age can take a long time to recover from, and many are fatal. So checking how you are moving, and how your strength and balance are holding up is essential to this goal.
Our Most Comprehensive Healthy Ageing Service Yet
When you opt into Vital 360: Healthspan testing, you’ll receive all the following across a multi-session period.
In-Lab Testing
Our lab testing assesses where you are at today with several key measurements that are essential to your ongoing health. From your body composition to your cardiovascular fitness, these tests will show in the most direct way possible how physiologically capable you are, and what needs to be done to improve.
The Vital360: Healthspan includes:
- DEXA scan for body composition and bone density
- VO2Max test for cardiovascular efficiency
- Blood pressure check for cardiac risk
- Strength and Balance Assessment for a test of muscular and proprioceptive function
Bloodwork
The bloodwork we do will analyse how healthy your organs are. It has a big focus also on advanced cholesterol measures which are highly correlated with cardiovascular risk. The Vital360: Healthspan features all the tests from our Optimal Health Blood Test, including:
- Hormones
- Autoimmune factors
- Cholesterol & advanced cholesterol metrics
- Blood clotting
- Blood sugar and diabetes
- Gout
- Inflammation factors
- Iron level
- Kidney & liver health
- Proteins
- Red & white blood counts
- Thyroid hormones
- Vitamins levels & deficiencies
Genetic Profile
Your genetic profile is by no means a destiny. There is no single gene or set of genes which will predict how long you will live, or how well.
However, by better understanding your unique genetic makeup—and how it can help or hinder your health goals—you can take action to mitigate or eliminate the hindrances and make full use of your genetic strengths.
Our profile focuses on those genes which will govern how you age, what risk factors you might have, and what strengths we can build on to ensure you hit maximum healthspan. The Vital360: Healthspan includes genes for:
- Biological ageing
- Gut health
- Heart health
- Brain health
- Hormone health
- Inflammation
- Muscle building and maintenance
Nutritional Feedback
Ageing in itself does see some reduction in capacity for activity, so just doing the same amount as a younger person can put a great deal of stress on our systems, and consume our bodies’ vitamins and minerals at an accelerated rate. This can lead to imbalances and deficiencies. A blood test to check for these is important for everyone. Our Nutritionist will be able to advise on the results of the blood tests and help you turn them into positive action plans in a food-first way, for better health.
Expert Consultation
Across the range of lab tests, blood tests and genetic profiles, we will provide you with a huge number of metrics and a wealth of information. Our Lab Expert will be able to contextualise all the information you’ve been given from all the tests to be able to make the most out of the data given. They will tailor the advice given to your specific results, and also what you can do and sustainably fit into your lifestyle for the long term.
Vital360: Healthspan FAQs
How do you measure healthspan?
Healthspan is a new term. It is used in contrast to lifespan or life expectancy. Lifespan is the length of time you live. Healthspan is the length of time you live while still being in good health. Unfortunately, the statistics show that on average there is a 9.6-year gap between the two, and women show a 2.4-year larger gap than men. This means that although mean life expectancy in the UK is 79 years for men, and 83 years for women, on average the last approximately 10 years for men and the last 12 years for women are characterised by poor health, and severely reduced function. Healthspan is about ensuring the lifespan is not only long but well-lived.
What are the predictors of healthspan?
One of the biggest predictors of healthspan is overall muscle mass. Muscle mass can start to decrease rapidly in older age, in a process called sarcopenia. Reduced muscle mass means reduced strength and capability, and can lead to a condition called frailty. Lower muscle mass and lower capability can also increase the incidence of falls, which, in later life can be fatal, or cause life-changing injuries, and are extremely difficult to fully recover from. We test balance, muscle mass, and strength to ensure that these are all tracking to maintain good function.
What about biological age or metabolic age?
Biological age and metabolic age are terms bandied about to describe how healthy someone is. While they have some value in simplifying the ideas contained in healthy ageing, for us we find that they might simplify too much.
These terms also tend to relate a person to the population. E.g. “I’m 60, but my biological age is 45” is supposed to mean that this 60-year-old has attributes of an average man of 45 years of age. This can be problematic when (as frequently happens) these are compared to an unhealthy population. We would prefer to talk about how healthy you are in the areas of strength, cognitive function, muscle mass, bone density, and cardiovascular capacity for a healthy 60-year-old.
What’s the difference between the Vital360: Healthspan and the Outlive Your Years Bundle?
The Vital360: Healthspan is our most comprehensive healthy ageing solution. They contain the same in-lab tests, but the Vital360 wraps in the blood tests and the DNA testing to give you a truly 360-degree view of how your health is today, and what you can change and improve on.
What’s the difference between the Vital360: Healthspan and your other healthy ageing services?
If you don’t have concerns about one area, then you might not need all our services. For example, a 55-year-old man who loves to get on his bicycle and cycle for 4 hours, may not be concerned about his cardiovascular capacity, so a VO2Max Test may not be necessary. However, they might be concerned about other aspects of healthy ageing such as muscle mass and bone density (pro cyclists famously have very poor bone density). It’s about knowing what you need and going from there. Our team is always on hand to advise on what specific tests would benefit you the most.
Who can benefit from the Vital360: Healthspan package?
Whether you are into your older age already and haven’t really thought about this, or you are looking ahead to the future and want to lay all the right groundwork now, the Healthy Ageing services and the Vital360:Healthspan is a set of tests and metrics that can benefit a huge segment of the population. If you’re keen to improve your health and set the stage for healthy ageing, this package is perfect for you.
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My Vital Metrics DEXA Scan and VO2 Max
The experience was great. Akash made everything easy and enjoyable and took me through the data in detail. I’ll definately be doing this again.
Comprehensive Insight into My Health and Fitness
If you’re serious about understanding your body and improving your performance, I highly recommend booking these tests. It’s well worth the investment!
Great service
Akash took the time to go through all my scan results with me and gave me some valuable, practical nutritional advice. He was very knowledgeable and had excellent communication skills. All in all, a professional and immensely helpful experience.
My visit exceeded my expectations
Overall, I would highly recommend My Vital Metrics as a company, as well as the DEXA scan itself, to anyone interested in their long-term physical health.