Fitness Metrics Profile
Test Details
Lab Company: ZRT
Sample Type: Blood Spot
Collection Location: At Home
The Fitness Metrics Profile helps monitor how fitness training is affecting a patient's overall health.
🔑 Key Details | 📦 Shipping |
⏰ Preparation & Timing | 📊 Results |
🧪 Collection Instructions | 📚 More Resources |
💳 Requisition & Payment |
💬 Questions? |
Key Details
- If you are a man, child, or non-menstruating woman, you can collect your sample at any time.
- If you are a menstruating woman, you may need to collect your sample on specific days of your cycle.
- If you are currently using hormones, supplements, or vitamins, you may need to time your test properly.
- Avoid anti-aging/anti-wrinkle face creams for 3 days prior to collection.
- You must fast overnight prior to collecting your sample.
- Collect your sample within an hour of waking.
- Ship samples back to the lab in the provided, prepaid envelope as soon as possible.
Preparation & Timing
- If you are a man, child, or non-menstruating woman, you can collect your sample at any time.
- If you are a menstruating woman,
- Regular cycles: Collect on Day 19, 20, or 21 of your cycle (where Day 1 is the first day of your period.)
- Irregular cycles: Collect 5 days before your period will start.
- Unpredictable cycles: Collect any day you are not bleeding.
- If you are taking topical, oral, sublingual, or troche hormones,
- Avoid applying topical hormones with your bare hands for at least two days prior to collection (use latex gloves, an applicator, or a hormone-loaded syringe).
- Take/apply any night dosage at least 12 hours before your planned morning collection.
- Avoid using hormones on the face, lips, and neck.
- Change sheets, pillowcases, and hand towels the night before collection.
- Avoid touching any surfaces which may be contaminated with hormones.
- If you are taking hormone patches, vaginal rings, hormone pellets, or hormone injectables, test halfway between doses.
- For example, 3 days after a once-a-week patch.
- If you are taking steroids, talk to your healthcare practitioner about proper timing.
- Avoid the following medications for 3 days prior to your collection,
- Anti-aging/anti-wrinkle face creams
- 7-Keto DHEA
- You must fast overnight for 10-12 hours prior to collecting your sample.
- Do not eat or drink anything other than water.
- Collect your sample within an hour of waking.
Collection Instructions
- Wash your hands with soap and water.
- Dry your hands with a clean towel.
- Swing your arms and rub your hands together to get your blood flowing.
- Write your name, the date, and the time of collection on the collection card.
- Fold the collection card cover away from the filter paper (which has circles for blood collection).
- Do NOT touch the filter paper.
- Tape the card to a low surface (such as a table) with the filter paper facing out.
- Open the sterile gauze and alcohol pad.
- Wash and dry your hands again.
- Use the alcohol pad to wipe the fingertip you will use for collection.
- It is best to use the ring or middle finger on your non-dominant hand.
- Wait 15-30 seconds for your finger to air dry.
- Remove the lancet’s cap and press the tip against the inside tip of your finger.
- Press the tip firmly against your finger until it activates (it should click).
- Wipe away the first drop of blood with the sterile gauze.
- Position your finger above the collection card.
- Gently stroke your finger from the base down to the tip to form a blood drop.
- Do NOT over-squeeze your finger.
- Touch the tip of the drop to the filter paper.
- Do NOT touch the paper with your finger.
- Place one drop per circle.
- Each drop should fill at least ¾ of the circle.
- Each drop should saturate the filter paper to the other side.
- Collect blood until all circles are filled.
- If blood stops flowing before you are finished, firmly wipe the finger with the gauze to get the blood flowing again.
- You can use the second lancet and another finger, if necessary.
- Bandage your finger.
- Leave the card open to dry for at least 4 hours.
- Keep the card in a cool, dry location away from sunlight.
- Once the card is dry, fold the cover over the blood spots.
- Place the card and completed test requisition form in the test kit.
Requisition & Payment
- Your kit has been prepaid. You DO NOT need to pay anything extra.
- Instructions on how to fill out your requisition can be found HERE.
- Since you pre-paid for your tests, you do not need to fill in the payment information on any of these forms.
Shipping
- Ship samples as soon as possible after collection.
- To prepare your sample for shipping,
- Place the COMPLETELY DRY blood spot card into the test kit box.
- Place the completed test requisition form into the test kit box.
- Ensure the test kit box is securely closed.
- Place the test kit box into the provided return mailer.
- Affix the provided label to the mailer.
- Make a note of your tracking number so that you can track your samples back to the lab.
Results
- Results should be released to your provider 3-5 business days after samples are received at the lab. We cannot guarantee processing time.
- Your provider will notify you when your results are in and schedule a follow-up appointment for you to review them together.
More Resources
Questions?
For general questions, email Rupa Health at support@rupahealth.com. For test-specific questions, contact ZRT by calling 503-466-2445.