Inflammation Compass FAQ

$389 per test, or $365 each when you order 4 or more. Mobile phlebotomy and shipping included. Reservations are open now. Purchasing will open later. View pricing

No. The Inflammation Compass is a direct-purchase wellness test and isn't billed to insurance.

No. Biomeme Labs will offer direct consumer access without a doctor’s order or prescription. Your report includes a consumer interpretation summary and a version for your clinician, so you can review your inflammation profile together.

At-home collection will be available in all US states except New York. You must be 18 or older to order.

Register your kit in your dashboard, sign the consent forms, and complete your intake questionnaire. Your at-home blood collection will then be arranged through our mobile phlebotomy service. Confirmed appointment details will appear in your dashboard. Your sample is returned to our laboratory for analysis.

Cancel your confirmed blood-draw appointment through your Dashboard at least 24 hours before its scheduled time. If you miss the appointment or cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice, a $90 rebooking payment is required before you can request another blood draw for that test. This applies to all mobile phlebotomy collections. Payment is not taken automatically. After paying, return to your Dashboard to request another blood draw. A phlebotomist will contact you to confirm the exact appointment time.

Withdrawing an unconfirmed request does not require a rebooking payment. Read the full collection policy

Each test purchase includes $90 for mobile phlebotomy. Before blood is successfully collected, you may request a refund for a test you purchased. If you have not missed or late-cancelled a visit, the full purchase price is refundable when no appointment has been confirmed or you cancel at least 24 hours before the confirmed appointment. Each missed appointment or cancellation with less than 24 hours’ notice reduces the available refund by $90 for that visit. Any additional collection payments are taken into account so the same visit cost is not deducted twice. A partial refund does not change the original order’s quantity discount or reprice the remaining tests. Once blood has been successfully collected, the test is non-refundable. Contact support@biomemelabs.com to request a refund. Refunds are manually reviewed and processed; cancelling an appointment does not issue a refund.

Eligibility is assessed for each purchased test and its linked replacements. A laboratory failure after a successful collection does not restore refund eligibility. Read the full refund policy

Read the pre-draw instructions for fasting, hydration and exercise.

Gene activity in your immune cells shifts with time of day, recent exercise, sleep, stress, and illness. To keep your results comparable from test to test:

• Book each blood collection at about the same time of day.
• If you can, avoid booking one during a cold or other illness, in the days right after a vaccination, or right after an unusually hard workout.

If that isn't possible, the test still works: a recent illness or vaccination simply shows up in your results, mostly in Activation phase.

Results are expected about one month after laboratory receipt. We’ll email you when your report is ready to download as a PDF in your dashboard.

Your dashboard brings together your test status and downloadable PDF reports. We’ll email you when a report is ready. Previous reports remain available in Results Library for you to download and share with your clinician.

Use them as a starting point for a conversation with your healthcare provider, especially if you're on a medication or protocol. You can share your report with your provider, and with your authorization we can make it accessible to them directly.

A single result is a snapshot. Gene activity moves with sleep, exercise, stress, and illness, so your second and later tests are where you see which direction you're moving.

A result outside the reference range isn’t a diagnosis. If anything worries you, talk with a qualified healthcare professional rather than changing a medication or protocol on your own.

A reading outside its range means you differ from the reference group at this sample. On its own, it doesn't tell you that something is wrong, or that nothing is. The range covers where most of the group sits, so some people in the group itself fall outside each one. A reading can also sit outside its range for ordinary reasons, such as a recent workout, a cold, or a short night, and for some people it is where they always sit. Your next sample shows whether it stays there. If a result worries you, or you have symptoms, talk to a clinician. The report includes pages written for them.

Gene activity moves from day to day with sleep, exercise, stress, illness, and the time of day. So the report marks a reading as moved only when the shift is larger than the usual difference between two samples taken close together. Anything smaller is marked about the same. One change is one comparison. Three or more samples begin to show a trend, and the more samples behind a pattern, the more weight it can carry. Taking each sample under similar conditions makes them easier to compare.

Yes. We don't sell, rent, or trade your personal or molecular data. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access within Biomeme Labs is limited to authorized laboratory and clinical staff. We share your results with a healthcare provider only with your authorization. Leftover sample is kept only as long as laboratory regulations require, then destroyed. Read our Privacy Policy

One sample is useful by itself: it shows where each of your readings sits against the reference group, and it starts your baseline. A second sample gives you a comparison, so you can see what moved and by how much. From the third, a trend begins to show, and you can start to tell a passing shift from a pattern. Your report names the window for your next sample.

Individual tests and optional recurring orders will be available. There is no required collection schedule. If you're starting or changing a medication or protocol, a common pattern is a baseline before or at the start, then tests at about 1 month, 3 months, and 12 months. See the suggested GLP-1 testing timeline

GLP-1 medications lower hs-CRP, a common blood marker of inflammation, but hs-CRP can't show which parts of your inflammation system changed. The Inflammation Compass reports six readings and your estimated immune cell mix at each test, so you and your clinician can see which readings moved and by how much, and whether a change reflects a different mix of cells or the same cells behaving differently. It shows what changed, not whether the medication is working.

Learn about GLP-1 monitoring

Inflammation is how your body responds to the world around it, from a virus to a hard workout. A response starts, does its work, and ends. When it responds too little, too much, or for too long, research links it with many long-term health problems.

Read Inflammation, explained.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, consists of working copies of gene instructions. Measuring it shows which genes your immune cells were using when your blood sample was taken. The Inflammation Compass groups that activity into pathways involved in starting, restraining and resolving the inflammatory response.

A wearable measures your heart rate and movement from the outside, and estimates your sleep and activity from those. A blood panel measures what is circulating in your blood, such as proteins, fats, and hormones. The Inflammation Compass reads something neither one reaches: which genes your immune cells are using. They work well together. Your wearable and your training log show what was happening in your life around each sample, which helps you make sense of what moved. The test adds to your other labs and doesn't replace any of them.

A1c reflects average blood glucose over roughly three months, while hs-CRP reflects the liver’s response to inflammatory signals over the preceding days. Whole-blood transcriptomics measures which groups of genes your immune cells are using when your blood sample is taken, providing a view over hours to days.