At Catch we believe the best way to win the fight against cancer is to understand your personal risk, and to tailor prevention based on your unique biology — not just population averages.
Today we’re thrilled to introduce a foundational leap forward in that mission: Catch Labs, our biomarker-testing platform that brings together three core pillars of health data to supercharge lifetime cancer risk management.
Why a Biomarker Engine Now?
Cancer is not just a disease of random bad luck. It’s a disease driven by cumulative damage to multiple systems in your body: metabolic dysfunction, immune decline, chronic inflammation, and the aging of tissues over time. By monitoring these systems via blood biomarkers, we can detect early warning signals, quantify biological age, and intervene while there’s still opportunity for meaningful risk reduction.
Rather than waiting for an imaging scan or a diagnosis, Catch Labs lets you proactively see what your body is doing across key systems, track how it changes over time, and take action before risk becomes reality.
What Catch Labs Measures
Each year, Catch Labs gathers 50+ blood biomarkers to map your physiology across three vital dimensions:
- Metabolic function — your metabolic health speaks to how your body processes fuel and how that fuel processing impacts cell growth, repair, and mutation risk.
- Immune health — immune surveillance plays a critical role in eliminating early cancerous cells.
- Inflammation and tissue‐stress markers — chronically elevated inflammation undermines normal tissue repair and is increasingly linked to cancer risk.
On top of that, we process your full biomarker set through our clinically-validated algorithm to estimate your Biological Age — a measure of how “old” your body is behaving vs. your chronological age (the years you’ve lived). This advanced age-estimation is grounded in modern research showing that a higher biological age correlates with higher cancer incidence and worse outcomes. For example, a recent large study found that accelerated biological aging (via clinical biomarkers) was associated with heightened risk of any cancer, and specifically lung and colorectal cancers.
Biological Age: Why It Matters for Cancer Risk
Chronological age is still one of the strongest predictors of cancer. But it’s a blunt tool. Two 50-year-olds may have vastly different cancer risks depending on their biology. Biological age gives deeper insight into how your body is functioning today.
Some key research highlights:
- A 2023 study using ~60 circulating blood biomarkers showed that blood-based biological aging models better capture physical deterioration than chronological age. Nature\
- That same research and others suggest that individuals whose biological age is older than their chronological age carry higher risk of age-related diseases, including cancer. For example, in one study “pace of biological aging” measured via epigenetic clocks was positively associated with increased cancer risk: each 1-SD increase in pace of aging corresponded to ~19-21% higher odds of cancer.
- The implication: if your biological age is running ahead of your calendar years, it’s a signal to accelerate prevention, screening and lifestyle optimization.
With Catch Labs, we quantify this gap for you and incorporate it into your lifetime cancer-risk profile.
What You Get with Catch Labs
When you enroll in the Catch membership with the Labs add-on, you receive:
- Annual blood-draws capturing 50+ biomarkers across metabolic, immune and inflammation systems
- A personalized biological age calculation — showing how your physiology compares to peers and to your own prior years
- An updated risk‐profile for lifetime cancer risk, integrating your biomarker data, biological age, and our AI-powered risk algorithms (which already assess 21+ cancers)
- A tailored action plan: based on your biomarker results you’ll receive science‐backed recommendations — e.g., lifestyle shifts, targeted labs/tests, screening timing adjustments, and more.
Year-over-year tracking so you can see whether your biological age is moving in the right direction, whether your immune/metabolic/inflammation markers are improving, and how your cancer-risk trajectory changes.
Why This Matters for You
- Personalization over population-based guidelines: Most screening and prevention guidelines look at age and family history alone. But your biology is unique. Measuring your internal systems gives you actionable insights
- Early detection of risk (before disease): Instead of waiting for abnormal imaging or symptoms, biomarker shifts let you act upstream.
- Dynamic tracking of progress: Your body is changing, so your risk changes too. With annual biomarker and biological age updates, your plan evolves.
- Empowered prevention: When you see your biomarker snapshot and biological age gap, it transforms abstract risk into concrete momentum, motivating lifestyle change, targeted monitoring, and informed decisions.
The Verdict
Cancer doesn’t wait. And neither should you. At Catch, we believe prevention is not just about what screening you get but when you get it, how your body is functioning, and how early you intervene. With Catch Labs, you’re equipped with the most advanced data portfolio we’ve ever offered: metabolic + immune + inflammation biomarkers + biological age + annual tracking.
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