Get as much blood testing as possible from your GP first, to see if there are some weak spots in your metabolism.
Complete blood count, liver and kidney enzymes, glucose metabolism, triglycerides, thyroid and other hormones, electrolytes and other available minerals (Cu, Zn), iron panel, coagulation, blood pressure, vitamins (B9, B12, D3), inflammation markers (hs-CRP, homocysteine, fibrinogen), etc. Also a hair tissue mineral analysis could give inexpensive insights.
Yeah, what tests should I start with, exactly?
Pamojja I am sensitive to supps in general but it is worth noting that the LEF K mix is 38 times the RDA so is it really that surprising?
As I said, get as many from my list as possible from a GP for free. The more the better. Though these are really just rudimentary test, GPs generally don't like do so many in a young healthy person and will cut it down greatly anyway. Maybe pretend some conditions to get more of them done at once?
An iron panel includes serum iron, ferritin, transferrin and transferrin saturation and total iron binding capacity.
A liver panel includes AST, ALT, GGT, APH, LDH, and maybe also a CPK.
A kidney panel includes creatinine, blood uria nitrogen (BUN), uric acid, GFR and a BUN/creatinine ratio.
Thyroid hormones free T3 and free T4, while most doc's only test TSH for initial screening. Also TPO and TG antibodies.
Hormones includes cortisol, DHEAs, testosterone, estrogen and SHBG.
Glucose metabolism a fasting glucose, HbA1c and an fasting insulin, if you can get.
Electrolytes include sodium, calcium, potassium, chloride and phosphor. May try to also get a Magnesium while at it.
A cholesterol panel would include total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglycerides. Though triglycerides alone would already tell enough for a start. Others are already specified in the quoted post.
Next be prepared to ask your GP for a photocopy of all test-results. Because conventional medicine uses very wide ranges of 'normal ranges', where functional medicine could predict and prevent already by small deviations from 'optimal ranges' a lot of later chronic conditions.
Vitamin K has been tested in doses of 45 mgs (LEFs contain only 2.6 mg) in Japan, and a few hundred milligrams as antidote to anticoagulation agent poisoning, without any bad side-effects.
Edited by pamojja, 05 November 2018 - 01:10 PM.