Continuous glucose monitoring for a healthier lifestyle
How do your blood sugar levels respond to your daily habits and diet? And what can you do to stabilize your glucose levels, boost your energy, and support your longevity?
What your blood sugar levels reveal about your health
Blood sugar refers to the concentration of glucose in your blood. This value is a key marker of your metabolic health and is closely linked to your longevity.
Elevated or highly fluctuating blood sugar levels can negatively impact your health and longevity in several ways. They damage the inner lining of your blood vessels, increase oxidative stress in your body, and promote insulin resistance, which makes it harder to transport glucose from blood into cells. This can deplete your energy, cause fatigue, and reduce your performance. Over time, these processes accelerate aging and increase the risk of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Individual responses require personalized nutrition
The graph above shows how different individuals' blood glucose levels can respond to the same foods. Recent studies underscore that blood glucose responses to nutrition vary from person to person. Continuous glucose monitoring empowers you to understand your unique reactions to different foods, enabling targeted dietary recommendations that truly fit your needs.
Longevity Check-up: Glucose levels
The AYUN Longevity Check-up takes approximately 5 hours. The Complete and Extended Check-up include the glucose level measurements, enabling us to provide targeted and personalized dietary recommendations. The placement of the CGM sensor and the explanation of the process take about 30 minutes.
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Uncover the benefits of our check-upsYour blood sugar reflects your lifestyle
How does your blood sugar fluctuate throughout the day and night? How does it react to specific foods? What about stress, physical activities, or sleep quality? Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) can track your blood sugar — without the need for finger pricks. Instead, a real-time monitoring device (rtCGM) uses a sensor on your arm to measure your glucose levels.
By understanding the impact of your diet and lifestyle on your blood sugar, we can provide tailored recommendations to help you take a proactive approach to your health.
How continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) works
Choose the Longevity Check-up
that suits you
Essential
Our Essential Longevity Check-up evaluates your blood values, body composition, and physical performance, offering deep insights into your personal health and fitness.
Complete
In addition to blood values, body composition, and performance, our Complete Longevity Check-up assesses your DNA risks and blood sugar levels. This helps us identify your individual genetic risk factors and determine your optimal nutrition strategy.
Extended
Our most comprehensive package, the Extended Longevity Check-up includes all AYUN tests, such as determining your biological age and heart rate variability. This allows us to uncover your unique stress triggers and relaxation factors.
Frequently Asked Questions
Longevity Check-ups
At what age do you recommend the Longevity Check-up?
In general, a Longevity Check-up is recommended for anyone over the age of 25. The earlier you know what your individual health risks are, the longer you can benefit from small adjustments. But it is never too late to take charge of your health and optimize it in a targeted way, i.e. even at an advanced age, there is still a lot of potential for optimization.
How long does a Longevity Check-up take?
A Longevity Check-up lasts about 4-5 hours depending on the package chosen. It starts with a 30-45 minute anamnesis interview with one of our doctors, followed by an ECG, blood draw, and Dexa scan. You'll then have a brief snack break before completing the 1.5 hour session with our sports scientist. Afterwards, wearables such as the HRV monitor and the CGM are attached and set up.
What do I need to bring for my Longevity Check-up?
You should arrive fasted (empty stomach, water allowed) and bring your sports clothes for the sports and endurance test. Showers and towels are available.
How long does it take to get the results of my check-up?
This depends on the Longevity Check-up you have chosen. The time between the test and receiving your results depends on external laboratories and the time our team of doctors, nutritionists and sports scientists need to evaluate your results. The indicative time is as follows:
- Essential Longevity Check-up: 1-2 weeks
- Complete Longevity Check-up: 4-5 weeks (due to the DNA risk analysis)
- Extended Longevity Check-up: 4-5 weeks (due to the DNA risk analysis and DNA aging clock)
Do I have to come to your clinic to discuss my results?
The discussion of the results usually takes place at our clinic. If you prefer, the conversation can also take place via video conference.
The same applies to the nutrition counseling, which can take place either on-site or via video conference.
What makes you different from other check-ups?
Our focus is not just on identifying diseases at an early stage, but rather on understanding individual predispositions and determining what each individual needs to stay healthy in the long term. We don't look at individual values, but combine all the results into a holistic picture. We collect scientifically validated parameters for Longevity and combine them into a personalized, preventative Longevity Report.
Who performs the Longevity Check-ups?
We are a medical institution, so all check-ups are performed by trained and medically educated personnel. We employ doctors, medical assistants and sports scientists in our clinic.
What is the difference between the Essential Longevity Check-up and the Complete Longevity Check-up?
All our check-ups focus on longevity. The Essential Longevity Check-up contains what we consider to be absolutely necessary for a Longevity Check-up and is suitable for people who want to get a first impression or as a follow-up check-up if you already know your genetic risks.
The Complete Longevity Check-up includes, in addition to further blood values, such as homocysteine, the DNA risk analysis, which we recommend to do once in a lifetime. The DNA risk analysis helps us to make even more targeted recommendations. We only test for those changes for which we know how we can influence them well and specifically.
In addition, continuous blood sugar monitoring for 10 days is included, with accompanying nutritional counseling for evaluation and interpretation. The blood sugar response to different foods can vary greatly from person to person, which is why these measurements can be used to provide even more targeted nutritional recommendations.
What is the difference between the Complete and Extended Longevity Check-up?
The first difference is the number of laboratory values analyzed. The Complete Longevity Check-up includes 64 laboratory values and the Extended Longevity Check-up 69 laboratory values. In addition, the Extended Longevity Check-up also includes a stress measurement (both during the day and at night) and a DNA aging clock to determine your biological age.
How are the findings evaluated?
Our team of doctors, nutritionists and sports scientists analyze the findings holistically, prioritize and make appropriate recommendations.
We compare the results with comparative values from your age and gender group. Our goal is for our customers to perform significantly better than the average, because the average person develops chronic diseases over the course of their life that significantly affect their quality of life.
Others
Everyone knows what is healthy: exercise, nutrition and sleep. What else do you offer?
That's right, healthy eating, regular exercise and enough sleep are the cornerstones of longevity. General recommendations are certainly suitable for the masses, but when it comes to looking at the individual, many individualized recommendations can be made depending on the individual disposition constellation. Our goal is to achieve the greatest possible health effect for the individual with the least possible effort. To do that, much more precise recommendations are useful and possible.
Can I bring my child with me?
Our services are only available to persons of legal age. However, you are welcome to bring a child with you as a companion. No childcare service is available.
Do you also offer payment by installments?
We're working on standardizing installment payment options in our checkout process. In the meantime, if you'd like to use an installment plan, feel free to give us a call, and we'll find a solution together.
