By Lin Yung-chen Conductor; official MC for the Presidential Office New Year's Day and National Day ceremonies
"I heard this stuff is really good for you." "Shouldn't I be taking a multivitamin if I want more energy?" "Everyone's talking about this supplement — should I be on it too?"...
None of these lines are unfamiliar. Health awareness has risen, social media amplifies it, and inevitably a lot of us turn to supplements to improve a symptom or head off a disease. Honestly, though, most of the time the situation is this: I have no real idea what I am taking, or whether it is actually helping me.
I was lucky enough to come across YOUNGER.
Whenever a past health check turned up a flagged value, all it really told me was to take it seriously — there was never an effective plan attached. YOUNGER is genuinely different. The blood work here is systematic, and it includes a great many markers I had never seen before, which put me at ease from the very start.
The data came back quickly. YOUNGER organizes everything into systems — detoxification, metabolic, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and core nutrients — to display all of my values, and with the support of large-scale Asian population data they apply very rigorous reference ranges, so I could see exactly where each of my numbers sat on the scale. But that was only the first step.
Numbers on their own are cold. Where YOUNGER really showed the team's expertise was in interpreting what that long list of data actually meant — and the most valuable part was identifying the root of my problems from my family background and lifestyle, then proposing a plan to address it. Put simply: take the right supplements, take enough of them, and make them work.
Because I committed to regular follow-up testing, I can track how every value is moving straight from my phone — and that is the idea of preventive medicine that YOUNGER has given me. Simple blood work, regular follow-up, precise and effective supplementation, and adjustments to daily habits: I believe that is the best strategy there is for staying healthy and staying out of the hospital.
