Blood work, victory and concern

cholesterol
triglycerides
(Travis Harris) #1

I’ve been mostly keto since June this year. I have annual blood workups for work and over the last year I:

The Good:
Lost about 30 Pounds
HDL Cholesterol increase from 42 to 59 mg/dL
Triglycerides down from 282 to 121 mg/dL (!)
T. Chol/HDL Ration down from 6.8 to 4.9 ratio units
VLDL Cholesterol Cal down from 56 to 24 mg/dL
Glucose, Serum decreased from 88 to 79 mg/dL

The Questionable:
Total Cholesterol increase from 285 to 291 mg/dL
LDL Cholesterol Calc (I’m not sure exactly what this is) increase from 187 to 208 mg/dL
Phosphorus, Serum decrease from 3.2 to 1.9 mg/dL
Potassium, Serum up from 4.7 to 5.5 mmol/L

Should I be concerned about the increase in total cholesterol? my ratio is much better… and VLDL is the really bad stuff an is much lower (by my reading).

With my potassium and phosphorus numbers I suspect that my electrolytes are out of whack.

I guess I’m just wondering if people would see this report as a cause for joy or concern. Thanks for reading. The triglyceride decrease itself has me thinking that sticking with keto is probably a good idea.

Thanks for any feedback,
Travis

(jilliangordona) #2

My total cholesterol increased as well. Your ratios look good so I would not worry. Many used to believe that high cholesterol was the best indicator for heart disease, but lots of literature is now proving otherwise!

(VLC.MD) #3

Thats a decrease.

(Mel Soule) #4

A 57% drop in Triglycerides. Brass band congratulations, magnificent job. Curious what was your fasting blood glucose change?

(Travis Harris) #5

I tried to type everything out so carefully and yet… 285 increase to 291. I edited my original post. Thanks for pointing that out.

(Travis Harris) #6

I haven’t ever paid attention to it since it’s always been in the “good” column but

Glucose, Serum decreased from 88 to 79 mg/dL

I’ll also tack this onto my original post… I guess it goes in the good category?

(Mel Soule) #7

Travis you are the master of understatement LOL. Maybe not good, maybe sensational. Another home run.

I ran the calculation on your liklihood of insulin resistance base on the FBG and triglyceride levels and you are at 8.47 where anything below 8.82 is clean and green.

This is a handy lab test table to evaluate labs against from Dr. Georgia Ede of Diagnosis Diet a fellow ketonian it’s a cool site with lots of information http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/insulin-resistance-tests-rev-3-15-17.pdf

(VLC.MD) #8

I’d call that likely no increase as it would be within the margin of error in the test.

It’s probably 285 +/- 20.

Congrats on the improved glucose readings and 30 lb weight loss.