Superpower Health Review

Superpower Health is a $499-per-year biomarker membership: 100+ markers, two draws across the year, accredited partner labs, and a mobile app built to the conventions of consumer wellness software rather than clinical software. On coverage and price it sits level with Function Health. On presentation it is a different product.

That difference is the whole decision. Both platforms measure similar territory and neither includes a physician in the base price. What Superpower optimizes for is whether you come back to the results — the guided onboarding, the prompts, and the action framing are aimed at a user who would abandon a spreadsheet-style dashboard after one login. Whether that is worth anything depends on how you actually behave with health data.

Public litigation

Superpower Health is the defendant in an open federal lawsuit brought by Function Health alleging false advertising and unfair competition under the Lanham Act (C.D. Cal., filed January 2026). These are allegations, not findings — Justia docket 2:26-cv-00810.

Scorecard

Seven categories, scored on the same rubric applied to every platform on this site. Scores reflect the base membership, not what is reachable once add-ons are stacked on top.

What you get for the money

The membership is a testing and interpretation subscription. Everything below is included at $499 with no further charge.

• A 100+ biomarker base panel, drawn twice a year. Coverage spans cardiovascular, metabolic, thyroid, hormone, nutrient, immune, kidney, liver, and blood-count groups.
• A guided mobile app. Onboarding walks a first-time user through what each marker group means before results arrive, which lowers the shock of a first out-of-range flag.
• Action prompts on flagged results. Out-of-range markers surface with a suggested next step rather than sitting as a number on a list.
• Longitudinal comparison. Second and subsequent draws are presented against the first, with movement highlighted.
• Full downloadable results. Raw values with reference ranges, exportable and usable by any outside clinician.

Sold separately: advanced panels, physician consults, and any draw beyond the two included. At-home phlebotomy is available in select markets and may carry a mobile draw fee where partner lab coverage is thin. The consult being an add-on is the most common billing surprise, because the app's action prompts imply a clinical relationship the base price does not include.

What it costs

$499 is the entry number. The realistic number is higher for most members, because the add-on panels cover the two areas people are usually curious about at sign-up: hormones and cardiac risk. Below is the line-item view including year two.

Two things to plan around. Add-ons are priced individually, so buying three costs three times as much — pick the one that answers a question you actually have rather than the bundle. And if you find yourself wanting results every quarter, a two-draw membership stops being the efficient structure; a physician-led program with retesting inside the fee becomes cheaper per result.

Signing up and the first visit

Sign-up is online and takes a few minutes, followed by a health intake covering medications, supplements, symptoms, family history, and goals. The intake is longer than the category norm and its answers shape which optional markers the app suggests, not which base markers get run.

The draw is a standard venous blood draw of roughly eight to ten tubes, ten to fifteen minutes at a partner Quest location, or at home in markets where mobile phlebotomy is offered. Fasting is required for the lipid and metabolic markers. Book a morning slot before 9am if hormones matter to you — testosterone and cortisol are both diurnal, and an afternoon draw produces a number that cannot be compared against a morning draw next year.

Results populate in the app over roughly 7–14 days, with send-out panels sometimes trailing the main set. What arrives is a marker-by-marker breakdown, an out-of-range summary with suggested actions, a guided walkthrough of the flagged items, and a downloadable file of raw values. Budget three to four weeks from purchase to a complete report.

What the panel covers

The 100+ markers fall into standard clinical groups. The specific inclusions matter more than the headline count, since platforms reach similar totals with different mixes.

• Cardiovascular. Full lipid panel plus ApoB, Lp(a), and hs-CRP — the markers that add risk information independent of LDL-C.
• Metabolic. Fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, and uric acid. Fasting insulin drifts years before fasting glucose does.
• Thyroid. TSH with free T3, free T4, and antibodies, rather than the TSH-only screen typical of a primary-care visit.
• Hormones. Total and free testosterone, estradiol, SHBG, DHEA-S, and cortisol, with deeper coverage available as an add-on.
• Nutrients. Vitamin D, B12, folate, ferritin, iron saturation, and magnesium.
• Organ function. Kidney and liver panels plus a complete blood count with differential.
• Inflammation and immune. hs-CRP alongside white-cell differentials that put an elevated CRP in context.

One named exception worth knowing before you read a hormone result: if you are on an SSRI, prolactin frequently runs high, and elevated prolactin suppresses testosterone. A panel read without that context can look like primary hypogonadism when it is a medication effect. The same applies to anyone working night shifts — a "morning" cortisol drawn after a night shift is measuring the wrong point on the curve entirely.

Strengths

• Onboarding for first-time users. The guided flow explains marker groups before results land, which is the difference between a report that gets read and one that gets ignored.
• Panel breadth per dollar. 100+ markers and two draws for $499 sits at the top of the diagnostic tier on coverage relative to price.
• Action framing on flagged results. Out-of-range markers arrive with a suggested next step attached rather than as a bare value.
• Data portability. Raw values export cleanly, so results are usable by an outside physician without repeat testing.
• At-home draw in select markets. Removes the lab visit entirely where mobile phlebotomy is available.
• High feature cadence. The product ships changes frequently, so the app you sign up to is not the app you have a year later.

Trade-offs

• No physician in the base price. Consults are an add-on, so a clinical relationship is something you arrange separately.
• No prescriptions. Superpower does not treat; findings that call for therapy route back to your own doctor.
• Two draws a year is the ceiling. Protocol titration wants results every 8–12 weeks, which this membership is not priced for.
• Add-ons carry the real cost. Hormone and cardiac depth sit outside the $499, and so does the consult.
• Shorter operating history. Less accumulated track record than the longest-running platforms in the category, which matters for logistics reliability in newer markets.
• No imaging. Blood only. Structural findings require a separate whole-body MRI or CT provider.

How it compares

The three platforms below are each other's closest peers in the diagnostic tier — broad panels, no bundled physician, no prescribing. They are listed alphabetically, and the same six criteria are applied to each.

Against Function Health, price and panel size are effectively level, so the decision rests on whether you prefer a guided consumer interface or a clinical dashboard with written commentary per marker, and on which add-ons you expect to buy. Against InsideTracker, the split is structural: Superpower gives you more markers on a subscription, InsideTracker gives you fewer markers with an algorithmic food-and-training plan and no commitment. One test and done favors InsideTracker on cost; two draws a year for two years favors Superpower per marker.

Who should buy it — and who should not

Buy it if:

• This is your first broad biomarker panel and you want the interface to teach you what you are looking at.
• You want 100+ markers at a fixed annual price with two draws included.
• You are in a market where at-home phlebotomy removes the lab visit.
• You intend to stay two or more years, since the trend view is where the value accumulates.

Look elsewhere if:

• You need prescriptions and dose management — buy a physician-led program such as Lifeforce, Marek Health, or Opt Health instead.
• You want retesting every 8–12 weeks — buy Marek Health, which is priced around that cadence.
• You want a personalized food and training plan rather than marker commentary — buy InsideTracker.
• You are looking for structural findings rather than blood chemistry — buy a whole-body scan from Prenuvo or Ezra.

Retesting and what year two costs

The membership renews at $499 for the same 100+ panel and the same two draws. The renewal buys repetition rather than expansion, which is the correct expectation — the second panel is what turns the first one from a snapshot into a trend.

Add-ons do not carry forward. A hormone or cardiac panel bought in year one costs another $100–$300 to repeat. Most continuing members land between $599 and $1,000, buying the membership plus one repeat add-on. Repeating a deep-dive panel is worth it only if the first one found something with a number to track; otherwise the base panel alone carries the trend.

One habit that improves year-two data more than any add-on: replicate the conditions of the first draw. Same time of day, same fasted state, same position in your training week, same supplement routine — and stop biotin for 72 hours beforehand, since high-dose biotin interferes with the immunoassays used for thyroid hormones and troponin. Controlling those variables removes most of what people otherwise read as a real change.

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