Mallet Research Brief

April 18, 20268 min read

Superpower Alternative: What to Do After Your Annual Labs

Annual labs are valuable. The practical gap is the rest of the year, when the report has to become ordinary decisions about food, training, and follow-up.

ByMatthew Miller·Founder of Mallet
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Superpower and clinics like it made a serious longevity panel easier to get. That solves the snapshot. It does not solve the year.

I have watched people light up over a thick report and then go quiet by week three. The PDF is still excellent. Tuesday dinner did not change. If you are shopping for a Superpower alternative, the real need is usually not another draw. It is an execution layer for the other 364 days.

What Broad Testing Still Gets Right

A good annual or twice-yearly panel, reviewed by a clinician, is valuable. You want coverage, a real interpretation, and a plan you did not invent in a forum. Superpower is built for that moment. I am not interested in talking you out of good labs.

I am interested in what happens after the call ends.

Clinic Report Versus Daily Execution

JobClinic / Superpower-styleThe gap after the report
TestingDeep panel, clinician reviewStill a point in time
Food and trainingAdvice on the call or in the PDFHas to be run on ordinary weeks
Follow-upNext draw, next visitWhat you do between those dates

Choose a lab service for the testing experience. Choose an ongoing system for the quality of the decisions between tests. Those can be the same company. They often are not.

Who Needs An Alternative

Stay in a clinic-first model if the draw, the physician, and the follow-up cadence are the product you want. Add or switch the daily layer if the report never reaches grocery day. Do not confuse “I uploaded a PDF” with a year of better decisions.

Function is a different competitor with the same hangover: curiosity after the panel. That write-up is what to do every day after Function. The shared next step is still pick the two or three markers that change the story.

Mallet is the year, not the draw. Upload the panel you already paid for, keep two or three markers in the weekly loop, and let food and training live in the same place until the next test. Get early access →

This Week

Open the last report. Circle the two markers a clinician already flagged, or the two you can honestly act on. Write one food or training change that could move them. That is the execution layer. The PDF can stay excellent.

MM

About the author

Matthew Miller · Founder of Mallet

A former Division I scholarship lacrosse player, father, and husband, Matthew builds the AI health system he wishes he'd had as an athlete, connecting bloodwork, training, nutrition, and recovery into one picture. He is not a physician. These posts are educational. More about Mallet.