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Evidence-based insights from Previvo on longevity medicine, hormone health, metabolic health, performance testing, and preventive care in Winnipeg.

What “Longevity Medicine” Means in Winnipeg

What “Longevity Medicine” Means in Winnipeg

Longevity medicine is a broad, evolving approach that organizes assessment around healthspan, age-related change, and an individual's clinical context.

Zone 2 Training and Metabolic Health

Zone 2 Training and Metabolic Health

Zone 2 is a practical label for sustained aerobic work below a major physiological threshold, but its exact boundary depends on the model and measurement method.

Insulin Resistance Explained

Insulin Resistance Explained

Insulin resistance describes a reduced response to insulin in certain tissues, prompting the body to use more insulin to manage glucose under some conditions.

Understanding ApoB and Cardiovascular Risk

Understanding ApoB and Cardiovascular Risk

ApoB is a blood marker that approximates the number of certain lipoprotein particles involved in transporting cholesterol and triglycerides.

What an Epigenetic Age Test Can and Cannot Tell You

What an Epigenetic Age Test Can and Cannot Tell You

An epigenetic age test uses selected molecular patterns to generate a model-based estimate, with limits that are as important as the headline number.

Biological Age vs Chronological Age

Biological Age vs Chronological Age

Chronological age counts elapsed time, while biological age is an estimate derived from selected features associated with how bodies differ across age groups.

How to Read a DEXA Body Composition Report

How to Read a DEXA Body Composition Report

A DEXA body composition report estimates bone, lean, and fat tissue and presents those measurements by region and for the body as a whole.

What VO2 Max Actually Measures

What VO2 Max Actually Measures

VO2 max describes the highest rate at which the body can take in, transport, and use oxygen during progressively harder exercise.

Heat, Cold and Light: How Recovery Modalities Work

Heat, Cold and Light: How Recovery Modalities Work

An explanatory guide to sauna, cold-water immersion, and red-light exposure, including how the modalities differ and what their measurements can mean.

Perimenopause and Menopause: The Vocabulary

Perimenopause and Menopause: The Vocabulary

A plain-language guide to the stages, hormones, symptoms, and testing terms that often appear in conversations about the menopause transition.

Hormone Testing for Men: What Gets Measured

Hormone Testing for Men: What Gets Measured

An explanation of total and free testosterone, binding proteins, related hormones, collection timing, and the limits of a single laboratory result.

What the Gut Microbiome Test Looks At

What the Gut Microbiome Test Looks At

A plain-language guide to what stool-based microbiome reports measure, how common methods differ, and where interpretation has firm limits.