I’ve been low-carb since the end of June. I had a lipid panel a couple of months in, which showed the predictable: HDL and total chol. up a little, triglycerides down, so that’s fine.
I have a medical check-up in a few days. Gonna get my every-six-months lead and ferritin, and another lipid panel. I’ve been eating a lot of canned pink salmon, so I’m going to ask about a mercury test, although pinks eat the lowest on the food chain of all the salmon species, so I hope they are fairly clean.
Probably also ask for a C-reactive protein just out of curiosity, and a “calcium score” (I believe that’s an MRI, not a blood test, per se) to see how the arteries are doing.
I don’t have signs of metabolic syndrome (BMI = 20 for decades on a careless diet, blood pressure was fine even before going low-carb) so I don’t know if there’s any point in getting an insulin or blood glucose, but I am open to suggestions. Any other tests you find interesting, and why?