Function Health alternatives

Start with why you are leaving

The right alternative depends on which part of Function Health stopped working for you. There are three real answers.

If it is the price, you want another membership. Superpower is the closest like-for-like at $199 a year with a 100+ biomarker panel already in it. Mito Health goes lower still at $9 a month and passes labs through at cost. That suits someone who orders a panel now and then instead of on a schedule.

If it is the wait between draws, InsideTracker takes results you bring it as well as ordering new ones. It scores DNA and wearable data alongside the blood.

If you already have results, only InsideTracker reads them without a new draw, and its $119 upload plan still sits under a $149-a-year platform. The rest price around a draw. You may well have arrived here already holding numbers: a physical last spring, a panel your doctor ran to chase a symptom, three years of PDFs in a portal you have opened twice. Paying a second membership to re-draw that blood is the most expensive way to answer a question that costs $12.99.

Superpower — the cheapest membership with a panel in it

$199 a year. One draw at 2,000+ Quest locations or at home, and 100+ biomarkers. A private care team you can message around the clock, plus a biological age. A second 100+ panel is a $199 add-on. It uploads past labs and syncs Oura, Whoop and Apple Health.

One thing to weigh. Superpower’s protocol recommends supplements, and Superpower runs a discounted marketplace selling them at up to 20% off. That is a normal way to build a business. It is also worth knowing before you read a recommendation. The full Decode vs Superpower comparison goes through it row by row.

Mito Health — the lowest subscription, panels at cost

$9 a month for the membership. The Core Panel is $197.62 for members and $276.80 without. Mito passes lab pricing through instead of bundling it. A clinician answers by text. A video consult is $39 for members. The care team runs 24/7.

Two subscriptions a few dollars apart, doing opposite halves of the job. That makes Decode vs Mito Health the friendliest comparison on this site.

InsideTracker — the one that already reads labs you bring it

$149 a year for the platform, plus $340 and up per test. A mobile phlebotomist costs $119 more. There is also a standalone Blood Results Upload plan at $119. It analyses up to 43 biomarkers from a test your doctor, employer or insurer ordered.

That upload plan makes InsideTracker the closest of the four to what Decode does. The head-to-head is worth reading. The split is not features. It is whether a model set your target or a person did on video, with the reasoning attached.

Your own doctor

If you get a physical every year, someone already draws your blood and someone already reads it. No membership on this page replaces that. What the printout cannot tell you is where your number sits against a higher bar. The range on it was built to catch disease, so “normal” answers that question and not the question of whether you are at your best.

The gap is not the test. It is the range the test gets graded against.

The alternative that is not a panel

Decode is an iPhone app that reads a lab report you already hold. A photo, a PDF, or Apple Health, from Quest, Labcorp, a hospital printout or a Function export. It puts each of your numbers next to a figure a named physician or research scientist stated on the record. It plays the video from the moment they said it. It also scans a supplement label and grades it at your own numbers. $12.99 a month or $79.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

Every membership here will tell you a result is fine or not fine. Somebody decided where fine stops. A testing membership answers that with its own clinicians or its own model. It has to — that range is part of what you bought. Decode has no draw to protect and no range of its own to defend. That is the only reason it can afford to point at somebody else’s number.

Your lab stops flagging ApoB at 100. The number on the record is 60.

“by the time you're in your late 30s or early 40s if you have any measure of apo b that's even north of the 20th percentile that should be completely lowered, so in some ways i would view an apob ceiling of 60 as the limit and that's probably at about the fifth percentile, you'd sort of want everybody to be below the fifth percentile”

Most US labs print an ApoB range topping out around 100 mg/dL. So a result of 88 comes back unflagged, sitting 28 above where that sentence puts the ceiling. Decode shows both lines and the video, and you take it to your doctor. See the full page on optimal ApoB levels.

On most markers, nobody has named a number — and the app says so

Decode’s library covers 98 biomarkers. 25 carry a range a named physician or research scientist stated on the record, backed by 57 quotes with links to the video. On the other 73 there is no second line. Your lab’s own range is what you get. The page says outright that nobody we cite has put a number on it. Browse them at all biomarkers.

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