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A Deep Dive Into How To Interpret The Results Of Your Blood Testing – Ben Greenfield Reveals & Walks You Through His Laboratory Results From WellnessFX.

 

https://bengreenfiel...ign=bgf-podcast

[Oakman]

Very interesting, except for the $1200 price tag. Have you done this?

[pamojja]

Very interesting, except for the $1200 price tag. Have you done this?

 

With basic insurance, some chronic health condition to justify for testing, most of these tests and many more have been possible for me to get. Most each half year, some in every 1-3 year time periods. Also it wouldn't make to much sense to retest too frequently, especially with markers repeatedly shown in the optimal range.

 

 including:

• 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D
• Apolipoprotein A-1
• Apolipoprotein B
• Blood Lead
• Blood Mercury
• Cardio IQ Lipoprotein Fractionation
• Ion Mobility
• Complete Blood Count w/ differential
• Complete Metabolic Panel
• Copper
• Cortisol
• Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate
• Ferritin, serum
• Fibrinogen
• Folate
• Free Fatty Acids
• Hemoglobin A1c
• Homocysteine
• High-sensitivity C-reactive protein
• IGF-1 (Growth hormone surrogate)
• Insulin
• Iron, TIBC
• Lipid Panel
• Lipoprotein (a)
• Luteinizing Hormone
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids
• RBC Magnesium
• Reverse T-3
• Selenium
• SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin)
• T-3 Total
• T-3 Uptake
• T-4 (Thyroxine)
• T-3 Free
• T-4 Free
• Testosterone + Free Testosterone
• Thiamine
• Thyroglobulin Antibodies
• Thyroid Peroxidase AB
• TSH
• Uric Acid
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B12
• Zinc
• Estradiol

As you can see, I've held nothing back and covered all bases with this customized blood panel.

 

Only blood lead and mercury (did cheaper HTMA instead), Lipoprotein fractions (already with trigs closer to 150 mg/dl one can assume most LDLs of the small-dense dangerous kind - closer to 50 mg/dl of the large-fluffy type), Free and omega-3 fatty acids, RBC-Mg (got whole blood Mg tested out of my pocket instead), Reverse T3 (also consistent fT3 to fT4 ratio would tell), vitamin K1, A, retinol binding protein, CoQ10, selenium dependent Glutathione peroxidase, SOD, and some other reasonable prized marker tested out of pocket again.

 

All in all I paid about 60,-€ for a almost yearly HTMA. And other lab-test paid out of pocket every 2 years for 200,-€, at the most.

Edited by pamojja, 30 September 2018 - 04:09 PM.

[Oakman]

Sounds pretty sweet there in Austria, esp. your insurance coverage. Not 100% sure, but I don't think it's so cheap here, regardless of someone's condition. i went through to buy the test, and it told me to pay the $1200 and then go to a certain local supermarket to get the blood drawn for it. Seemed somewhat odd, with Quest Diagnostics setup in a supermarket, but I'm not familiar with anything like this.

[pamojja]

Ben Greenfield Reveals & Walks You Through His Laboratory Results From WellnessFX

 

A remark to Ben's interpretation of his results, I'm surprised he interprets only 3 data points from last year, though he said he would have test results from at least 6 years. Having myself test-results from over 10 years, I would always look at it from this wider background. Individual tests, can be mistakes by the lab and in general do wary without that much meaning than the usuals ups and downs of life (in fact, some of my test-results would have meant I'm death by the time reading the results).

 

Also he said his interpretation would be for healthy people. I don't see such a difference. Comparing his results to mine, some results are indeed much better than mine. While others are much better in my case with a number of severe chronic conditions (PAD, COPD, T2D, ME/CFS..).

 

Though he does show much background knowledge and therefore unconventional interpretations, he does mainly use normal reverence ranges. Which many times is a bit problematic, since most reverence ranges are statistical constructs by taking the lowest and highest 2.5% and arbitrarily consider the mean 95% of all tested the 'normal range'. I always also compare to 'optimal ranges' picked up online from functional medicine practitioners. And thereby am able to see problems in certain body-systems much earlier. A version of which is since beginning this year available at http://labtestanalyzer.com/ (they however look at scientific evidence for optimal ranges, and not at clinicians experiences at all).

 

A maybe not that much surprise finding, of using labs and trying to improve markers in my case, that some are very difficult to change. But just a slight change in the right direction over many years - with many intermittent up and downs - meant the difference of having a 60% walking-disability from PAD, or having it revoked. Still continuing to optimize, but far from perfect.

 

An other benefit from tracking lab-markers is learning how all body-systems interact between them, and all life-style factors. Which due to bio-chemical individuality (metabolism, detox-abilties, etc.) could not be gleaned from science, which only tests one agent at a time. Or specialist looking at one body-system only at a time.

Edited by pamojja, 01 October 2018 - 12:19 PM.