Update after some time

(Drew) #1

Been a long while since I provided an update.
Still about 300lbs - started working out again in the last few weeks and got a pretty good trainer for 2x/week that made a good schedule to do workouts on my own the other 3 days.

However, thought I’d provide some recent blood updates.

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Unfortunately, they did not provide TRT results but it’s at 568 and I was doing their TRT gel but I had not since about Oct 2024 so I went off of it myself for 6 months just to see if I could keep the TRT levels and well I can successfully say I’m good.

As a Dr would, concerns on some levels but overall, no medications, doing vit d3 +k2 (3k-5k) fish oil (5k) on my own, and iodine, feel nice and healthy.

Eating 3x/day, majority meat, having eggs and raw milk (making protein smoothies with protein powder that has good stuff, can share images if any interested) but I know, it technically doesn’t make me “carnivore” more ish at prob 95% but oh well.
There are carbs/sugars in my diet but it’s from the milk and not store bought milk.

Aiming at about 300g protein/day right now with around 200-250g of fat, cannot complain,

My A1c was 5.8 6months ago and came down .1, overall can’t complain, it was steady.

(Bob M) #2

Looks good. Hopefully, the HDL will come up over time. Other than that, seems reasonable.

HbA1c is not a great marker. Do you take blood sugar? Did you get fasting insulin? I thought this was interesting:

(Drew) #3

Morning - I don’t take anything for the a1c, they want me too but i’ve declined doing so.

(Bob M) #4

You mean something like metformin or jardiance or…? Is that what they want you to take?

In that article, he recommends taking c-peptide. I have found that marker, like insulin and other markers, to be variable:

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A fasting insulin of just over 10 uIU/ml is where I normally am, but I can get much higher, as high as 33.0. Not sure why. And I find a lot of these to be highly variable:

Insulin from 3.8 to 33
HOMA-IR (a measure of “insulin resistance”) from 0.86 to 7.82.
C-peptide from 2.5 to 6.

And they don’t necessarily track together: insulin of 19.8 (high) with c-peptide of 2.5 (normal); insulin of 11.8 (not that bad, some want lower) but c-peptide of 4.6 (high).

Some people are adamant that you have to have a fasting insulin of 4 (or around there) or lower, but I only got that twice: once almost 10 years ago; and once after fasting 4.5 days. Otherwise, I’m generally around 10. And I’m on my 12th year of keto.

So, a lot of these recommendations have to be looked at in light of the person being examined.

I do think that HbA1c isn’t a great marker for some people, though.

(Drew) #5

Interesting, yeah i don’t know anything about the fasting insulin, very unlikely the Dr will do any testing for anything else other then the default stuff from pictures i provided and yes they wanted metformin, was on it before but not on it at this time and don’t plan to be.