{"id":88154,"date":"2016-02-21T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88154"},"modified":"2016-02-21T16:37:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:37:28","slug":"blood-doesnt-lie-mark-melancon-leads-pro-athletes-in-growing-usage-of-blood-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88154","title":{"rendered":"Blood doesn\u2019t lie: Mark Melancon leads pro athletes in growing usage of blood analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/mlb-boston-red-sox-pittsburgh-pirates-mark-melancon-insidetracker-nutrition-021816\">REPORT<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The Red Sox nutritionist at the time, Tara Mardigan, introduced Melancon to a company called InsideTracker, a blood analytics company based in Cambridge, Mass. which uses blood testing to screen for 30 different biomarkers \u2014 including vitamins, hormones and other metabolic markers \u2014 and determine optimal zones for each level based on a highly personalized questionnaire which looks at a person\u2019s age, weight, activity level, ethnicity, personal goals and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/will-self-driving-robot-cars-really-work\/#comment-1332342\">Comment<\/a>: I found this on Baseball Think Factory and it seems to have triggered a few people. \u201cQuackery\u201d, \u201cPseudoscience\u201d, and \u201cIgnorance\u201d are all used in the first 5 comments. Sabermetrics is always looking for the next set of data to analyze, PitchFx and FieldFx (I think defensive analysis is really the diminishing returns phase of baseball analytics) being the latest craze, but let\u2019s not dig TOO deep.<\/p>\n<p>\nSteve has talked in the past that there isn\u2019t a one-size-fits-all diet, and what better one to find out what works for you than drilling down to your individual biology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORT: &#8220;The Red Sox nutritionist at the time, Tara Mardigan, introduced Melancon to a company called InsideTracker, a blood analytics company based in Cambridge, Mass. which uses blood testing to screen for 30 different biomarkers \u2014 including vitamins, hormones and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hbd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88155,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88154\/revisions\/88155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}