Yet, the metrics in the article are routinely ignored (or not tracked at all) by your typical PCP doctor.

I think more frequent and more thorough blood testing is something I'd love to see become more common place. Even if it's for no other reason than to know what your benchmark is so that if you have a health issue down the line, you know what your values were when you weren't sick.

The training kicks in and my knee-jerk reaction to not one of the graphs starting at zero is to discount the trustworthiness of the entire article, whether that is well deserved or not...