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Result in the room.
What actually happens in the twenty minutes, and what happens to the result afterwards.
An Elixir Health appointment takes about twenty minutes: a finger-prick or venous sample, run on the analyser in the room, and a printed result explained before you leave. Samples are never sent to a laboratory, which is why the result is minutes rather than days.
Step by step
- Book. At an Elixir Day, a clinic, or a private visit. Morning slots for any panel with testosterone or cortisol in it; cycle-timed slots for the women's hormone panels.
- Arrive. Bring nothing. Water is fine. If your panel is finger-prick only, it is a chair and about ten minutes. If it includes a venous marker, it is a couch, a qualified phlebotomist and a five-minute spin in the centrifuge.
- The run. The Getein 1160 runs four test cards at once, in three to fifteen minutes. A four-marker panel is one run.
- The result, on paper. Each marker, its reference range, and where yours sits. Explained by a person in the room.
- The review. Every panel is reviewed by our clinician. Anything outside the expected range is referred — you will hear within one working day.
- Your record. The result goes into an account you own, encrypted, under the clinician's responsibility — and never into our marketing system. How that works.
- Retest at twelve weeks. Booked before you leave, if you want it.
What "point of care" means, and why it matters
A laboratory runs dozens of assays off one tube and posts you a PDF in one to seven days. A point-of-care analyser runs a small number of assays in the room. It cannot do breadth. It can do the thing a lab never will: give you the number, with a person, before you leave.
Elixir Health is a point-of-care measurement service. Samples are analysed at the venue and never sent to a laboratory. A single measurement on a single day is not a diagnosis. Elixir is not a clinic or a pharmacy. 18+.