A baseline is a record of your health taken while you feel well, so that a change years from now has something to be measured against. Most first workups combine a broad blood panel with body composition, a measure of fitness and a careful history, and some add imaging. The value is not the number of markers. It is whether someone explains what came back, decides what is worth repeating, and tells you plainly which findings need nothing at all.
What a baseline is actually for
Most medical testing begins with a question: you noticed something, and a test looks for the cause. A baseline starts from the opposite place. You feel fine, and the point is to write down where you stand now, so that a result five years from now can be read as a change rather than as an isolated number.
That makes a baseline more useful over time than on the day you receive it. One reading tells you whether something sits inside the usual range. Two readings, years apart, tell you the direction you are moving in, and the direction is usually the part worth knowing.
What a first baseline usually covers
Practices differ, but most first workups are built from the same parts: a broad blood panel read across heart, metabolic, hormone, inflammation and organ markers; body composition and bone density; a measure of cardiorespiratory fitness; blood pressure; and a detailed personal and family history. Some add imaging.
The history is the part that tends to be underrated. It decides which of the rest is worth doing, and it is the reason two people of the same age can reasonably leave with different test lists.
How this differs from your annual physical
An annual physical is not a smaller version of this. It is built around a shorter set of checks with strong evidence behind them, chosen for what your age and risk make likely. A baseline workup is broader by design, and broader is not automatically better: it means more numbers, including some that sit just outside a reference range and mean nothing.
A baseline is also not a substitute for the age and risk appropriate screening you are due. If a colonoscopy or a mammogram is on your list, a broad panel does not stand in for it.
What a broad first workup cannot settle
Testing many things at once in someone who feels well reliably turns up results that are borderline, incidental or hard to read on their own. Most of them come to nothing. Some take a repeat test months later to settle, and the waiting is the part people tend to find hardest.
Newer measures are worth knowing by name. Biological age estimates are a research measure rather than a diagnosis, and different versions of them can disagree with each other. They may be interesting. They are not yet the thing a care plan should hinge on.
What happens to the numbers afterwards
A baseline earns its value on the second visit rather than the first, which makes the follow-up arrangement worth asking about before you book. Who reviews the results with you, what gets repeated and when, and whether your own doctor receives a copy.
A set of results handed over with no conversation attached is data rather than care. The interpretation is the service.
A baseline recorded while you are well gives every later result something to be read against, and it can sometimes find a treatable thing early. The trade-off is that broad testing in a well person also turns up borderline and incidental findings, and each one can mean a repeat test, a referral and a stretch of waiting before it comes to nothing.
How a first baseline visit usually goes
Practices organize this differently, but a first baseline tends to follow the same four steps.
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History and goals first
What concerns you, what runs in your family, and what you have already had tested. This decides which tests are worth doing, and a practice that books a panel before asking is starting in the wrong place.
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The testing itself
Usually a blood draw, body composition and a fitness measure, sometimes imaging. Ask what your booking includes and what would be arranged separately.
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Someone explains the results
A conversation covering what came back, what sits outside a range, what that does and does not mean, and which findings need nothing.
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A plan for the repeat
A baseline only pays off when something is later measured against it. Ask what gets repeated, on what interval, and whether your own doctor receives a copy.
How the main approaches differ
Three approaches show up across these practices. They answer different questions, so comparing them line by line can mislead.
| Approach | What it does | What to know |
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| A one-off baseline assessment | A single broad workup with a written summary, bought once and not tied to ongoing care. | Suits someone who has a doctor they like and wants depth once. The repeat, and acting on what comes back, is left to you. |
| A baseline inside ongoing care | The same workup used as the entry point to continuing care, with repeat testing and a physician who follows the trend. | This is where a baseline is most likely to be acted on, because someone is scheduled to look again. It is an ongoing commitment rather than a single purchase. |
| A baseline built around imaging | A workup with a scan at the centre and bloodwork arranged around it. | Broad imaging in a person with no symptoms is intended as an addition to guideline screening rather than a replacement, and professional bodies have not recommended it for people with no symptoms or risk factors. |
Whole-body baseline testing at Dallas-Fort Worth clinics
10 of the 12 researched Dallas-Fort Worth clinic locations document a pathway for whole-body baseline. Each profile below shows how the practice is organized and who it identifies as its clinical leadership.
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Cooper Clinic
Cooper Clinic is a preventive medicine clinic in Preston Hollow, founded by Kenneth H. Cooper in 1970, with 31 named clinicians. Its one-day preventive physical delivers same-day results across six components, from laboratory analysis and cardiovascular screening to skin cancer screening. Platinum is the 24/7 concierge tier. People come here for a whole-body baseline and heart and cancer screening.
The whole product is a baseline. Six components in one day, customised by age and sex, with every result read back to you by a physician the same day and a written report mailed afterwards.
Kenneth H. Cooper, MD, MPH and 30 more named clinicians
Founder and Chairman. Board Certified in Preventive Medicine.
Gladden Longevity
Gladden Longevity is a concierge longevity and precision medicine practice in Irving, led by Dr. Jeffrey Gladden, a cardiologist who moved from interventional work to aging biology. Membership runs in three tiers, each built on a multi-day launch visit, deep diagnostics and what the clinic calls your mosaic of biological ages. People come here for hormones and energy, midlife care, and emerging care.
The executive physical is the front door, and it is inside the membership rather than sold on its own. The clinic describes expanded genetics, blood, urine and stool panels, cardiovascular and metabolic testing, body composition, endocrine and thyroid evaluation, and a physician sitting down with you for a three-hour session to explain what came back.
Jeffrey Gladden, MD, FACC and 7 more named clinicians
Founder & CEO. "A triple-board-certified cardiologist with more than four decades of clinical experience".
Hartwater Wellness
Hartwater Wellness is a physician-led longevity clinic in McKinney that starts with measurement: blood is drawn in house and run through Quest, across panels from biological age to cancer risk mapping. Treatment spans hormone pellets, peptides, GLP-1 weight loss, IV therapy and hyperbaric oxygen. People come here for a whole-body baseline, weight loss, and hormones and energy.
If you want more than an annual physical, the Foundational Metabolic & Micronutrient Panel is what the clinic calls its standard starting point: metabolic markers plus vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids and antioxidants, drawn in the office and run by Quest. Every panel comes with physician interpretation and a one-on-one results review, and the clinic says plainly that its panels extend your primary care bloodwork rather than replace it.
S. Bradley Burris, MD, PA and 2 more named clinicians
Medical Director and supervising physician. Board-certified anesthesiologist and Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology. Every treatment page carries the line "Medically reviewed by Scott Bradley Burris, MD. Reviewed May 2026.".
Humanaut Health Dallas
Humanaut Health Dallas is the Dallas clinic of a three-city longevity brand, open in Preston Center since May 2026. An annual membership is built around testing: an advanced health check with DEXA, VO2 max, CIMT, grip strength and movement assessment. Peptide and hormone programs, plasma exchange and blood cleanse protocols run in the same building. People come here for a whole-body baseline and emerging care.
The whole model starts with one testing day: a broad blood panel, DEXA, CIMT, VO2 max, grip strength and a movement assessment, then a provider walks you through it and writes a plan. That testing day can be booked once without joining anything.
Rathna Nuti, MD and 1 more named clinician
Regenerative Medicine Physician. MD.
The Thompson Clinic
The Thompson Clinic is an age-management and hormone practice on Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, led by Dr. Paul Thompson, a urologist who entered the field after a program of his own. Two concierge packages each begin with a comprehensive blood panel, a DEXA scan and a first visit running several hours. Hormone therapy is the center of the work. People come here for men's health, midlife care, and a whole-body baseline.
Clinic publishes two age-management packages opening with comprehensive blood work, a DEXA Lunar scan, history and physical examination and an extended consultation.
Dr. Paul Thompson and 3 more named clinicians
President. Awarded "a certificate in Age Management Medicine" after completing "an extensive training program".
Advanced Body Scan, Dallas / Plano
Advanced Body Scan's Dallas-Fort Worth site is a CT early-detection imaging center in Plano. A CT scan of under five minutes delivers a coronary artery calcium score and screening across chest, abdomen and pelvis, followed by a report and a physician consultation to take to your own doctor. Scans are paid per scan, with multi-scan packages usable over up to ten years. People come here for heart screening.
Clinic positions the scan as a way to establish a baseline before symptoms, and sells packages of repeat scans over as much as ten years to track change from it.
Published by Advanced Body Scan, not for this location
Advanced Body Scan publishes these three physicians for the organisation rather than for Plano. The page introducing them says "Every Advanced Body Scan study is reviewed by experienced, board-certified physicians", and Dr. Lewis's page describes his work as spanning "our Oklahoma City, Dallas/Plano, and Houston locations".
Company-wide role, not this location's clinician.
Formula Wellness
Formula Wellness is a five-clinic Dallas-Fort Worth wellness group, diagnostics-led: nearly everyone starts with a 360Diagnostics panel and a 60-minute provider consultation. Epigenetic biological-age testing sits alongside hormones, GLP-1 weight care, peptides, IV drips and a full med spa. Memberships carry the relationship forward. People come here for a whole-body baseline, weight loss, and biological-age insight.
The entry evaluation is the whole model. Blood panel, SECA body composition scan, resting metabolic rate, an arterial and exercise-response test, an EKG and a skin scan, followed by a 60-minute consultation. The clinic says it recommends this before treatment for nearly every patient.
Brian Rudman, MD and 9 more named clinicians
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer. Board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology and by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. The site gives more than one span for his career: "three decades of experience across clinical medicine, operational leadership", "more than two decades in traditional medicine", and, on the older location page, "a board-certified Anesthesiologist since 1997".
Fusion Healthy Aging
Fusion Healthy Aging is a physician-owned practice in Fort Worth built around hormones, led by Dr. Lisa Gardner-Phillips, DO. Bioidentical hormone therapy and pellet insertion sit at the center, with peptides, GLP-1 weight care, thyroid management and vitamin injections around them. Care runs in person at the Vickery Boulevard office. People come here for hormones and energy, midlife care, and weight loss.
Clinic publishes in-house bloodwork drawn on site and processed through Quest Diagnostics, described as the comprehensive panel every plan starts from.
Lisa Gardner-Phillips, DO
Founder & Lead Doctor. Board-certified physician. ’s About page: "Dr. Lisa Gardner-Phillips, DO, is a distinguished and board-certified physician with over two decades of experience.".
Highland Park Concierge Medicine
Highland Park Concierge Medicine is a one-physician concierge internal medicine practice on Oak Lawn Avenue, led by Dr. Rachel Boram Park. An annual membership centers on around-the-clock access and an annual executive physical: EKG, blood work, vitamin and hormone levels, imaging and a cognitive assessment. Botox and fillers sit alongside. People come here for a whole-body baseline and hormones and energy.
The annual executive physical is what you are buying. The clinic says it goes well beyond a standard exam and lists blood work, vitamin levels, an EKG, imaging and an exercise assessment in one sitting, with the results reviewed by the physician who will keep seeing you.
Rachel Boram Park, M.D.
Founder and physician. Board certified in Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, with advanced training in Botox, Voluma and Juvederm.
LifeSpan Medicine
LifeSpan Medicine's Dallas office is part of the concierge practice Dr. Chris Renna founded in 1992. The practice runs two programs: a Comprehensive Concierge evaluation and a Platinum year capped at 75 clients, joined by referral. Platinum diagnostics include functional brain MRI and cognitive-risk panels, with a Regenokine joint and spine arm. People come here for brain health, gut health, and emerging care.
The concierge program is built on integrative and preventive medical evaluations, run by a practice that has been doing this since 1992.
Published by LifeSpan Medicine, not for this location
LifeSpan Medicine runs three offices, Santa Monica, Dallas and Miami, and publishes its ten clinicians centrally on one team page rather than assigning them to a location, so nobody is named specifically for Dallas. Dr. Levitt's biography lists licences in Florida, Minnesota and North Carolina, which does not include Texas.
Company-wide role, not this location's clinician.
Common questions
Is a baseline workup worth it if I already have an annual physical?
They are doing different jobs. An annual physical covers a shorter list of checks chosen because there is good evidence they help at your age and risk level. A baseline workup is broader, and its argument is about the future: it gives later results something to be compared against. Broader is not automatically better, though. More numbers in a well person means more borderline results, and a baseline is worth most when someone is going to look at it again rather than file it.
I keep seeing blood panels advertised with hundreds of markers. Is that the same thing?
That is one part of it rather than the whole. A baseline usually spans more than blood: body composition, bone density, fitness and a detailed history all feed into it. If it is the panels themselves you came looking for, our comprehensive biomarker panels page lists the clinics near you that publish them.
What does a baseline workup cost?
It varies widely by practice and by what is included, and many clinics discuss fees only after an initial conversation. Some sell a workup as a single purchase; others fold it into a membership alongside ongoing care, where the repeat testing is part of what you are paying for. Ask which of the two you are looking at, and what a repeat would involve.
Will insurance cover it?
Some individual components are commonly covered when they are guideline recommended for your age and risk, and coverage depends on your plan. Broader testing bought as a package is often self-pay, and practices differ in whether they bill insurance at all. Ask each one directly how it handles both parts.
What if something comes back abnormal?
A finding is usually the start of a process rather than an answer. Depending on what it is, the next step may be a repeat test, a targeted scan or a referral, and many findings turn out to be harmless. Before booking, ask who reviews an unexpected result, how quickly you would hear, who arranges any follow-up, and whether the practice sends your records to your own doctor.
How do you decide which clinics appear on this page?
A clinic appears here when its own published material shows it offers this kind of testing at that location.
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Sources
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, A and B recommendations Supports: That an annual physical is built around a shorter set of checks with evidence behind them, chosen by age and risk level; That recommendations, rather than individual clinics, set which checks are due and how often.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Osteoporosis to prevent fractures: screening Supports: That bone density measurement is an established test with defined age and risk criteria.
- National Cancer Institute, Cancer screening overview (PDQ), patient version Supports: That testing people without symptoms produces false positives, which are usually followed by further tests and procedures; That screening can find things that would never have caused symptoms; That a normal result does not rule out disease.
- American College of Radiology, statement on screening total body MRI Supports: That professional bodies have not recommended whole-body imaging for people with no symptoms, risk factors or suggestive family history.
- American Heart Association, Importance of assessing cardiorespiratory fitness in clinical practice: a case for fitness as a clinical vital sign Supports: That cardiorespiratory fitness is a measurement worth recording alongside the standard clinical measures.
- National Institute on Aging, In search of better biomarkers of aging Supports: That biological age measures are an active research area rather than a settled diagnostic; That different measures of biological age can disagree with each other.
This page is educational information, not medical advice, and it is not a recommendation to have or to skip any test. What is worth testing depends on your age, your history and your personal risk, so discuss it with a clinician who knows them. If you have a symptom that concerns you, seek a medical evaluation rather than a baseline package.
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