About this episode
My buddy Nathan Owens (@nathanequalsone) returns for a rousing discussion of all of our bloodwork. There’s a lot here, and this is technical episode. I hope that it provides value to the community and is helpful to those of you with questions about which bloodwork to order! Time stamps: 12:25 Nathan's Podcast info. 15:04 Blood work Recommendations. 19:38 Where to order these tests online. 20:22 Extra-curricular labs. 21:42 Nathan's Blood Work-Cholesterol 24:01 What happened to basic lipid panel when he went carnivore. 25:55 Familial hypercholesterolemia 27:15 Thoughts on why LDL goes up on a Carnivore Diet. 29:04 Sophisticated lipid panels 30:48 Atherogenic lipid numbers. 32:31 Nathan's LDL and HDL size. 33:50 What's the size of an HDL particle relative to the size of an LDL particle? 38:07 Ox LDL test. 41:20 Paul's bloodwork results. 43:14 LPPAL2 45:09Other lipid tests Nathan got. 47:05 Are plant sterols atherogenic? 48:35 Other inflammatory markers 49:38 Valuable Inflammatory Markers. 51:00 When to measure HSCRP? 51:39 Myloperoxidase and fibrinogen. 52:12 Homosistine. 54:50 Plant Folate 56:15 Hormones 57:53 Sex hormone binding globulin. 1:01:49 What Nathan did to quadruple his testosterone. 1:06:30 The takeaways in regards to testosterone 1:09:40 DHT 1:12:21 IGF1 1:13:25 Insulin 1:14:10 Importance of testing fasting insulin. 1:14:25 C peptide measurements 1:14:45 The Comprehensive Metabolic Panel. 1:16:37: B.U.N 1:18:27 Cystatin c 1:19:19 EGFR 1:19;54 Fasting glucose. 1:21:59 Continuous glucose monitoring. 1:23:13 Hemaglobin A1C. 123:53 Fructosamine levels. 1:24:44 Bilirubin 1:26:59 Biliary disease 1:28:58 ALT and AST 1:29:30 Alkaline Phosphatase. 1:30:16: GGT 1:31:53 CBC and DIFF. 1;33:58: Wh