JFP 1975
Sat, Feb-19-11, 07:03
Hi everyone,
I went to the my primary on the 14th for a physical and blood work. I've been eating low carb for about 6 weeks and I was curious how my labs would shake out. I know 6 weeks isn't a long time, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Labs came in the mail yesterday!
She drew me for just about everything under the sun, so I won't bore you with all of it, but here are some of the highlights:
Total cholesterol: 115
HDL: 44
LDL: 60
Ratio: 2.61
Triglycerides: 56
Glucose: 73 (btw, this was just a random, not fasting, blood draw)
HbA1c: 5.3%
There's a ton more, but the bottom line is that I did not have ONE lab value out of normal range (CBC, Chem 14, hemogram, urinalysis, etc.), with the exception of ketones in my urine :lol:
Now, the sad part is that I don't have baseline labs from, say, 6 months ago. But I am fairly confident, given the way I had been feeling, that they would not have looked exactly like this :)
I went to the my primary on the 14th for a physical and blood work. I've been eating low carb for about 6 weeks and I was curious how my labs would shake out. I know 6 weeks isn't a long time, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Labs came in the mail yesterday!
She drew me for just about everything under the sun, so I won't bore you with all of it, but here are some of the highlights:
Total cholesterol: 115
HDL: 44
LDL: 60
Ratio: 2.61
Triglycerides: 56
Glucose: 73 (btw, this was just a random, not fasting, blood draw)
HbA1c: 5.3%
There's a ton more, but the bottom line is that I did not have ONE lab value out of normal range (CBC, Chem 14, hemogram, urinalysis, etc.), with the exception of ketones in my urine :lol:
Now, the sad part is that I don't have baseline labs from, say, 6 months ago. But I am fairly confident, given the way I had been feeling, that they would not have looked exactly like this :)