GlycanAge value
Adds an IgG glycan view of immune aging, immune balance, and longer-horizon inflammation context.
Inflammatory-age context
iAge helps frame systemic chronic inflammation.
Allerim positions Edifice Health iAge as an inflammatory-age test: a way to add chronic-inflammation and immune-health context when standard symptom history and routine labs do not fully explain the pattern.
How to think about it
iAge is the inflammation-focused counterpart to GlycanAge.
GlycanAge and iAge should not be described as interchangeable. GlycanAge is anchored in IgG glycan patterns. iAge is anchored in inflammatory-age context. That difference is the reason a bundle can be clinically coherent when a patient wants a broader immune-aging picture.
Primary signal
Inflammatory Age, positioned around systemic chronic inflammation and immune-health context.
Best use
Inflammation-focused tracking and follow-up when broader chronic-inflammation context matters.
Not built for
Diagnosing a specific allergy, food trigger, alpha-gal reaction, or acute inflammatory illness.
How each creates value
iAge brings the inflammation lens; GlycanAge brings the glycan immune-aging lens.
The value is not that both produce an age-like number. The value is that each summarizes a different layer of immune biology. That makes staff conversations simpler and makes the bundle easier to justify when a patient wants a fuller immune-aging read.
iAge value
Adds an inflammatory-age view of systemic chronic inflammation and immune-health burden.
Single-test choice
Choose GlycanAge for immune-aging trend context; choose iAge when chronic inflammation is the main question.
Bundle choice
Bundle when both biological layers would make interpretation, follow-up, or retesting strategy clearer.
Offer logic
Offer iAge alone or bundled, but keep the explanation honest.
iAge answers a different question than GlycanAge, so offering both can make sense when the patient wants a broader immune-aging read.
Do not make both feel mandatory. iAge alone is reasonable when inflammation tracking is the main question.
Bundle only when the added signal changes interpretation or follow-up, not just to increase the ticket size.
Staff script: iAge is for inflammatory-age context. GlycanAge is for IgG glycan immune-aging context. The bundle is useful when both signals would make follow-up clearer.
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