My Lipid Panel?


(Russell Savige) #1

I am a 77-year-old male, almost 7 months Carnivore.
Lost 20% of bodyweight with no exercise
BMI 22.4
I’ve now started resistance training.

Lipid Panel after 16 hours fast.
Tot Chol 247
HDL 77.3
LDL 154
Trig 70.8
LDL/HDL ratio 2.0
Chol/HDL ratio 3.2


(Doug) #2

Looks good. :+1:


(Alec) #3

There is nothing in your list of facts that indicates a problem. Looks to me you are doing it right! :clap::clap::clap::fire:


(KM) #4

One important metric is also your Trig / HDL ratio, with anything less than 2 being ‘recommended’ and 1:1 (in other words, the same for each) being outstanding. Your ratio is .915, more HDL than triglycerides, which is amazing! Good job!


(Cathy) #5

Congratulations - you are doing very well!!!


(Robin) #6

Russell, way to go! It’s never too late to take back control of your life and health. Super impressive.


(Doug) #7

Exactly. :sunglasses::clap:


(Mark Rhodes) #8

I know for a fact The Sodfather began Crossfit about 90 days ago. AT 68. Guess he got tired of my teasing him.

Seriously though, resistance training is the very best thing to do for longevity. You improve your bone density and have stronger muscles to maintain balance to prevent falls. It will boost your insulin sensitivity. A big kicker is the over all boost in cognitive memory and emotional health issues. For me it is on par with meditation . Now, I am not 77 but only a measly 60 plus, still I didn’t start out this way.

Keep going Russell


#9

Nothing looks crazy there, and also keep in mind that those long fasts before a standard lipid panel makes your numbers worse when you’re fat powered, so realistically it’s lower than that. Do them in the morning on empty, no more. In the end, you really should do NMR’s. Standard lipid panels guess half of that, and the equation to do so doesn’t work right with low carb eaters. NMR’s directly measure so it makes no difference whether you’re fasted or not, and the numbers are real. Plus, you get your LDL breakdown including sdLDL, as well as an LP-IR, which is good to have when you care about insulin resistance.

On the other side of that, even with keto out of the mix, doing a cholesterol panel fasted is useless, that’s forcing an artificial viewpoint of how your body is most of the time. That’s like an Insulin resistant person getting up, waiting a couple hours for the artificially raised morning levels to come down, and not eating, and pretending that number is what their insulin load is the other 90% of the time.