Peter Attia's clinical practice assesses metabolic health using factors beyond the standard metabolic syndrome criteria, including oral glucose tolerance tests, uric acid levels, homocysteine levels, the full lipid profile, and functional testing like mitochondrial lactate production during a Zone 2 test.

“we don't look at that in our patients truthfully because we're not trying to make assessments at a population based level so we're looking at many more factors beyond those things looking at Oral glucose tolerance tests looking at uric acid levels homocysteine levels looking at the entire lipid profile and then looking at functional testing so looking at how the mitochondria perform in a Zone 2 test so how much lactate is a person producing at rest and then how much lactate do they produce under increasing amounts of workload and all of those things then factor into our assessment of metabolic Health”