# TML Decision Guides

Practical guides for evaluating longevity care, diagnostic claims, executive assessments, biomarkers, VO2 max, and biological-age testing.

[Understand your diagnostics](https://themaximum.life/diagnostics): Explore every diagnostic category in our memberships: why it may help, what it measures, how it works, and how to understand the results.

## Canonical pages

- [How to Choose a Longevity Clinic](https://themaximum.life/guides/how-to-choose-a-longevity-clinic): Longevity clinic is an unregulated label. Learn how to evaluate physician responsibility, testing philosophy, incentives, continuity, and red flags.
- [Executive Health Assessment vs. Annual Physical](https://themaximum.life/guides/executive-health-assessment-vs-annual-physical): What the evidence says about checkups, what an executive assessment adds and risks, and why follow-through matters more than testing depth.
- [What Physician-Led Longevity Care Should Include](https://themaximum.life/guides/what-physician-led-longevity-care-includes): The testable components of physician-led longevity care: responsibility, interpretation, prioritization, licensure, coordination, and reassessment.
- [Understanding Advanced Biomarkers Before You Order More Tests](https://themaximum.life/guides/understanding-advanced-biomarkers): Why large panels make false flags likely, which advanced markers have real evidence behind them, and how to interpret results without overreacting.
- [What VO₂ Max Can and Cannot Tell You](https://themaximum.life/guides/what-vo2-max-can-tell-you): The evidence linking VO2 max to longevity, how much training can change it, what shifts the number, and what the score cannot establish alone.
- [Biological Age Testing: Five Limits to Understand](https://themaximum.life/guides/biological-age-testing-limitations): How epigenetic clocks work, what the evidence supports, the reliability problem consumer reports rarely disclose, and how to use a score responsibly.

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