Best Time To Have Blood Work Done

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(James) #1

I’ve been eating a variation of the ketogenic diet for the last 7 years and training for about 10 years (powerlifting, bodybuilding, strongman, etc). I started with The Anabolic Diet by Dr Mauro Di Pasquale and over the years highly modified it (basically by shortening the carb ups and reducing their size and frequency).

I consider myself well versed for the most part having read these books on the topic:

The Anabolic Diet
Natural Hormonal Enhancement- Rob Faigin
The Ketogenic Bible
The Vegetarian Myth
Protein Power
Why we get Fat
Fat Chance
The Paleo Solution
The Primal Blueprint

So I’m sure at one point I read this question and forgot it!.. But here it is.

With a goal of having the most relevant/accurate blood panel. What time of day should the blood be drawn, and should a keto’er fast before the test. How will these things effect the test results?

I generally get the LPP (Lipoprotein Particle Profile) run so that I can get an idea of actual size distribution of my lipoproteins and not some erroneous calculated LDL number.

Bonus Question: Has anyone gotten their arteries “scanned.” I’ve heard about this but don’t know anything about it. Is there a simple test to run in order to determine the actual amount of plaque in one’s arteries?

Thanks,
JK29


(James) #2

So, listening to Robb Wolf’s podcast today with Dave Feldman shed some light on this.

It is still optimal for a keto’er to fast before the blood test.

https://robbwolf.com/2018/07/03/episode-400-dave-feldman-cholesterol-and-lipoproteins/