Blood tests

[Torn Mind]

Vitamin D in milk isn't naturally occurring in any meaningful amount. Milk is fortified with vitamin D so you may as well grab an inexpensive vitamin D pill to boost your D levels. There is no shame in taking a supplement of vitamin D especially since we all need the immune boost during covid and cold and flu season.

Eating fish might boost your levels but how much mercury is accumulating in your body?

I picked out the low level mercury fishes. Red salmon or sardines have a lower concentration. Tuna, I will avoid. Anecdotes have even made it to some youtube vids where someone got poisoned. Only issue is that I eat them canned because I just don't feel like preparing fresh salmon if I can't down more than 3 ozs anyway and I find always found the taste rapidly repulsive. I'm at least willing. The rest of my family have even less interest in eating the cans of sardines or salmon.

I think I've downing a D3+K2 supplement daily after December, sometimes even popping 3 pills on some days.

 

[Torn Mind]

Apolipoprotein results are in
153 for A1
108 for B.
Ratio of B/A1 is 0.71.

Yeah, I'm pretty much good in terms cardiovascular risk. Apo B is not ideal but everything is mostly good.

As an aside, fiber did nothing to my cholesterol. The effects is obviously a matter of food substitution causing an increase in vitamins/minerals and being forced to eat due to physical constraints/hormones, respectively. Meaning, fiber only matters for people who are eating garbage and introduction causes them to eat less garbage and supply missing minerals/vitamins.

Sucks that a paywall exists for these better measures. Docs can't make as much bank with statins if other factors reassures a patient that their LDL isn't too big of a deal.

 

[TheVrolok]

[QUOTE="Torn Mind, post: 40783102, member: 318317]
Sucks that a paywall exists for these better measures. Docs can't make as much bank with statins if other factors reassures a patient that their LDL isn't too big of a deal.[/QUOTE]

So much to unpack...

Lipo levels have a fairly niche use case (further risk stratification of mostly high ascvd risk patients) are used because LDL-C levels can UNDERestimate risk. So, simply, Lipo levels are not used to reassure anyone that an LDL is fine in the context you're suggesting.

Additionally, what doctors are making bank on statins? Doctors don't own pharmacies (in the vast vast vast majority of cases) and even if they did, what bank is there to be made on statins? Atorvastatin is the most commonly prescribed statin and its been generic for over a decade.

Basically.. Yeah, no.

 

[Torn Mind]

[QUOTE="Torn Mind, post: 40783102, member: 318317]
Sucks that a paywall exists for these better measures. Docs can't make as much bank with statins if other factors reassures a patient that their LDL isn't too big of a deal.

So much to unpack...

Lipo levels have a fairly niche use case (further risk stratification of mostly high ascvd risk patients) are used because LDL-C levels can UNDERestimate risk. So, simply, Lipo levels are not used to reassure anyone that an LDL is fine in the context you're suggesting.

Additionally, what doctors are making bank on statins? Doctors don't own pharmacies (in the vast vast vast majority of cases) and even if they did, what bank is there to be made on statins? Atorvastatin is the most commonly prescribed statin and its been generic for over a decade.

Basically.. Yeah, no.
[/QUOTE]Some docs work for a corporate master, such as Medstar.
The protocol if one consents to statin therapy is sticking to consuming it for five years, based on the what Medstar primary care doc said to my mother. That same doc also didn't bother to order an A1C test even though this visit was the first in years, nor was it ordered ever in subsequent visits even with fasting glucose that crossed 99 mg/dl or the first visit's blood test indicating hypertriglyceridemia.

Good chance that statin makes the patient feel like shit, because "resource deprivation" would do that.

There also may be a link to worsened diabetes symptoms on people who do take statins

Given my family's history, if a heart attack did end someone currently alive, it means they avoided cancer killing them first or dementia ending their mind.

 

[Torn Mind]

Omega-3 Indext: 6.5%
Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio: 2.9
Arachidonic acid: 8.3%
EPA/ ARACHIDONIC ACID RATIO: 0.2
DHA%: 4.7
EPA%: 1.8

One serving of fish a day will do this. Should probably double it up or something.

 

[nakedfrog]

Some docs work for a corporate master, such as Medstar.
The protocol if one consents to statin therapy is sticking to consuming it for five years, based on the what Medstar primary care doc said to my mother. That same doc also didn't bother to order an A1C test even though this visit was the first in years, nor was it ordered ever in subsequent visits even with fasting glucose that crossed 99 mg/dl or the first visit's blood test indicating hypertriglyceridemia.

Good chance that statin makes the patient feel like shit, because "resource deprivation" would do that.

There also may be a link to worsened diabetes symptoms on people who do take statins

Given my family's history, if a heart attack did end someone currently alive, it means they avoided cancer killing them first or dementia ending their mind.

So this is a broad assessment of doctor behavior based on personal experience with a single doctor, and you are of the belief this doctor will seek the highest profit avenue at their corporate master's bidding rather than seeking the best health outcome?