Hey /fit/ I'm a PhD student who works on making diagnostic

basicly steroid hormones levels(test, estro, etc)
myostatin levels would be nice
and some markers for genes that involve athleticism

comes down to knowing the natty potential of your body when it comes to athletics, muscle growth, etc

>>38462209
but there are already point of care tests for test... I think there are companies that are making them and have products ready.

Would you actually buy and use them? I'm not into commercializing yet since I only do research but I want to make sure my PhD is meaningful and has some level of practical use to it

>>38462242
>Would you actually buy and use them?
if they were cheap and more readily available

>>38462242
I would buy and use. There are some commercial DNA tests but they are expensive and from what I gather not very specific. Thinking of getting one anyway...

But yeah, any markers that could reveal potential or limits for lifting would be interesting for most /fit/izens.

>>38462242
But other than that the only thing the general fitness guy would like to know is a way to detect tendon damage to prevent injuries, I guess collagen concentration in the blood specific to some areas? Not sure if they get broken down into the bloodstream when they get damaged

>>38462313
great, I'll keep a list of all these ideas for future reference. thanks!

>>38462133
this sounds pretty interesting, where are you doing your PhD?

>>38462377
also maybe a way to detect overtraining by looking at muscle creatinine in the blood?

I'll keep posting ideas if I can come up with something

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>>38462242
this >>38462209
You can't get a hormone panel without a referral, which means you need a doctor. Thankfully there are online work arounds but it's still 70-300$ a test depending on which you get done.

If you could just come up with something that pricks ur thumb or w/e and gives a readout of ur test/free test/lipids/estro etc that would be fucking fantastic if not even just to help for a better understanding of average test levels are for men in this day and age as opposed to a haphazard scale that encompasses 10yr olds to 90yr old diabetic men.

>>38462420
PhD in building a microfluidic device that can detect single biomarkers in a rapid and multiplexed manner. We miniaturizing assays that take days and require a lot of prep; I already have some great prelim data and some publications, and I want to move this from just a research tool that is published into something people can use.

I'm still early in my PhD so I have plenty of time to think of useful applications for my remainder of the time here

>>38462445
great, I can look into biomarkers for that too... I am keeping a doc with all your ideas.. maybe I'll post back in a year with results

>>38462461
That's exactly what I am envisioning. The main thing is that FDA usually requires high precision and high sensitivity, so the good thing is I can do that currently but not sure if it is the level to pass FDA standards. Test and other stuff you guys are not life threatening like HIV so the standards sound be lower anyways

>>38462133
test levels... I'm a girll with a hormone disorder. everyone thinks I'm on roids but I'm just high test.

>>38462836
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>test levels... I'm a girll with a hormone disorder. everyone thinks I'm on roids but I'm just high test.
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>>38462692
Also a way to detect nitrogen balance in the body to see if a person consumes sufficient protein would be great too

>>38462133
A device that could detect through hair or saliva whether the origin of the sample has XX or XY in 5 minutes or less

PLS

>>38463215
why do you want this...? and why is it hard to tell?

This can be done pretty easily lol