InsideTracker is a blood analytics company that specializes in creating personalized feedback and lifestyle suggestions for athletes. Now, professional athletes are utilizing the Massachusetts-based company to help them improve their bodies and careers.
Sports continue to become more competitive at every level through new scientific and technological advances. Athletes are always looking for ways to improve their training and bodies in order to keep up and at the highest levels, taking all of these steps becomes a necessity. InsideTracker’s goal is help athletes do just that on a ultra-individualized basis.
"I love that InsideTracker provides suggestions on what to eat to help improve." https://t.co/hV88u7X5Et pic.twitter.com/QkIBADYBju
— InsideTracker (@InsideTracker) July 10, 2016
Their take home blood tests create a profile designed to provide personalized feedback to help a user become more healthy and maximize their potential. The blood tests are accompanied by a personal profile to help InsideTracker make the best lifestyle recommendations.
InsideTracker provides their clients with precise nutrition and workout recommendations. The hope is to help their users improve their sleep, metabolism, energy and much more.
The company’s tests provide feedback on how biomarkers impact ones health. InsideTracker has worked with teams and athletes across all four major North American sports. Fox Sports recently detailed one of their most successful user stories, Pittsburg Pirates pitcher Mark Melancon.
Melancon started working with InsideTracker in 2012, and his career has taken off since then. He is a now a three-time MLB All-Star and will make his third appearance on July 12th in San Diego. The 31-year-old pitcher has become a more healthy and dynamic player by utilizing the detailed and personalized plans InsideTracker regularly provides.
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The company tests Melancon’s blood on a regular basis and constantly updates his other measurements such as weight, age and goals. The feedback is often based on biomarkers such as hormones and vitamins. The hope is to provide a “zone” that a user should stay in for every biomarker.
More rest has been one of the biggest changes to Melancon’s routine. InsideTracker’s biomarker level testing suggested the closer get more of it. Their blood testing and physiological data is designed to optimize rest and recovery. To become the most efficient, strong and powerful athlete possible rest is vital, and their tests demonstrate this over and over.
You might like this! @InsideTracker has been very helpful in my career. @MLBONFOX https://t.co/0ulltNgiKj
— Mark Melancon (@Mark_Melancon_) February 18, 2016
InsideTracker is able to determine their most effective biomarker range by drawing from a database of over 150,000 healthy people. They are then able to make recommendations for training and nutrition based on expansive databases and research.
They are currently helping athletes of every kind try and become the best they can be with a wide range of plans, from as little as $49.00 to as much as $499.00. The more basic plans help a user strengthen their metabolism, energy and reduce inflammation. The most expensive plan tests up to 30 biomarkers. And is designed to help improve performance, cognition, mood, muscle mass and more.