Is keto affecting my liver?

(Cristian Lopez) #1

reults ever since starting low carb to keto?

each row of numbers going vertically is a different test date result*

Alkaline Phosphatase
92 - 468 U/L
62 53 49 49 58 54
ALT
7 - 32 U/L
26 49 56 91 23 30
AST
12 - 32 U/L
37 57 42 59 36 39

(TJ Borden) #2

You’re a pretty smart 15 year old. I have NO idea what all those numbers are :thinking:

Lottery?

(Cristian Lopez) #3

updated it^^

#4

Why as a 15 year old are you getting liver function tests at all?

(Cristian Lopez) #5

idk but every damn blood test something is elavated or low!!

(Candy Lind) #6

According to Mayo Clinic your numbers are all in normal range. According to what you typed in, only AST was elevated. It might be that your diet might explain it.

What did they say was wrong?

(Jay AM) #7

Forum Search for Alkaline Phosphatase

If you’re a woke enough 15 year old to be looking at liver values, you’re woke enough to ask questions about why you’re being tested, what they are looking for, and whether there is a concern.

(Brandy Fischbach) #8

I have a 14 year old and they also check his liver enzymes. Just like you, he had only one thing elevated. He got a liver ultrasound and it was found that he had fatty liver. Keto is supposed to help that by reducing the amount of fat in your liver. Liver enzymes are part of a CMP which is a comprehensive metabolic panel and is very routine.

(Cristian Lopez) #9

DOES he do keto?

(Brandy Fischbach) #10

Yes he does now. Its one of the reasons we went keto.

(Cristian Lopez) #11

but was the fatty liver before or after keto because im a year in and I have low asp score

(Brandy Fischbach) #12

Hos was before keto

(Todd Allen) #13

Do you have the test dates?
That’s a lot of tests if they are all since going keto 1 year ago.
Or can you at least say if your test results are ordered from most recent to oldest or the other way around?

(Cristian Lopez) #14

all since going keto

(Shane E) #15

Your Alkaline Phosphatase seems continually low. However, a raised number may indicate liver issues, so it’s good to be low I think.

ALT is also within range, and I believe is used as an indicator of liver function.

AST is a bit high according to the range you’ve given. This is also used as an indicator of liver function.

My doctor takes these same tests every time I go in. For comparisons sake, here are my results in order from first to most recent. All of them taken before I went Keto. In fact, the last one was over a year ago now. (I guess it’s time to go see the doc.)

Alkaline Phosphatase
30 - 125 U/L
95 85 93

ALT
0 - 33 U/L
47 37 63

AST
0 - 36 U/L
24 20 36

I’ve also added the ranges that my medical clinic gives as “normal” ranges for those, which are quite a bit different than yours. As you can see, my AST is usually lower than yours. My ALT and alkaline phosphatase are usually higher. As yet, my doctor hasn’t shown any signs of panic.

I think the bottom line is that there just isn’t much information to go off of with just the numbers alone. Looking at your tests, the 4th one everything seemed a bit off. Maybe that was Keto. Maybe it was something that you were eating regularly at the time that you aren’t now. Maybe you were just under some sort of stress that caused your liver to act up a bit. Maybe they were elevated because your liver was kicking out all the crap you’d accumulated over the years finally. It’s hard to say. Just not enough evidence I don’t think, especially when the numbers seem to return to “normal” levels. Even if that is just normal for you.

KCKO

(Cristian Lopez) #16

Thanks thats alot of relief!!
God bless bro I was freaking out!

sweet now do you know by any chance what these enzymes do and if low or high what is going on if more enzyme is produced?

(Shane E) #17

Unfortunately, I only know what Google is telling me. And it’s telling me more about the tests and the usage than the actual process by which they are triggered or created.

#18

PLEASE don’t help perpetuate that ridiculous non word. Hasn’t the world gone stupid enough already. If you’re here, that’s proof your more educated than that. Nitpick over.

(Todd Allen) #19

In general liver disease causes both ALT and AST to rise dramatically above the reference ranges. ALT is more specific to the liver than AST though both have other sources. Skeletal muscle is the second most common source of these enzymes and tends to more strongly elevate AST. Muscle releases these enzymes when injured or damaged from physical trauma or from degenerative muscle diseases. Intramuscular injections can also cause a short term spike in these enzymes. Less commonly diseases or damage to the heart, kidneys or brain can elevate AST.

Low alkaline phosphatase is most commonly associated with nutritional deficiency. Insufficiency in any of a fairly large number of vitamins and minerals can cause it.

(Rob) #20

It’s not a nitpick, it’s just an opinion… and we all know what those are like :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I quite like the word since it succinctly sums up a more complex concept (enlightened in a particularly modern sense, be it culturally or scientifically, etc.) and in a way that requires you to find out what it means if you don’t already know it.

This typically contributes to the unwoke becoming more woke… or complaining about the use of new words in a language whose primary advantage is its rapid evolution to maintain its constant global relevance.