Finally got my lab results back...
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »KnitOrMiss wrote: »Oh, and considering your history of neuropathy, I didn't see B12 on your list....did I miss it? A good B-Complex can have a lot to do with nerve/muscle discomfort, too...
I do take two B complex vitamin caps every day - one in the morning and one in the evening. My apologies, I did not detail the full list if what I take. Here is it:
4 caps cinnamon
6 caps biotin 1000 mcg
1 cap liquid aminos
2 caps B complex vitamins
4 caps MSM 1000 mg
2 caps Chromium Picolinate 200 mcg
4 tabs Vitamin D3 1000i.u.
4 caps Acetyl L Carnitine
1 teaspoon Lemon flavored Cod Liver Oil
2 tabs Magnesium 200 mg
1 tab Zinc 50 mg
1 cap Full Spectrum Vitamin K2
That's a lot of stuff!!! I'm glad it's working for you. I start having blood sugar crashes with cinnamon these days, so I have to be careful... sigh. And my B12 is up from 365 a year ago to 835 (pg/ml) now... Which according to my test, the upper threshold is 986....wondering what signs of HIGH B12 are...
B12 is water soluble, so the excess is excreted in urine. I don't think too much can really be a problem, unless you are taking B12 injections or have an underlying medical condition where supplementation is not recommended. Other vitamins, like D & A are fat soluble & are stored in the body, which can cause toxicity.
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Just got my lab results back a couple days ago, too, and I am quite devastated at my terrible cholesterol levels.
There's a lot of things off in my labs that are pointing to poor absorption, too, so I guess I'll have to have that looked into. For example, in spite of taking B vitamins and multivitamins, I have some signs of B12 deficiency.
I guess I'll have to cut back on all that heavy cream and cheese, and start swapping in more olive and macadamia nut oil...
-T.
@Teneko this diet makes some of us see much higher cholesterol numbers which is actually good. Increasing HDL and decreasing triglycerides are what you are looking. After maintaining for a year (not losing weight) the cholesterol levels will have more meaning. Cholesterol numbers < 250 per some doctors leads to increased risks of cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's so dig for the new research and not the 40-50 year old theories that doctors remember from med school days that turned out to be false.0 -
Your results are great LadiPoet! Good job!
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Thanks for sharing! Lab results make for good reading material. What meds (if any) are you on? (Other than vitamins & supplements). I'm kind of baffled at the lipid panel; most on keto/low-carb have much higher HDL.0
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Your results are great LadiPoet! Good job!
Dan
Thanks Dan. Overall I am pleased with the results. Would really LOVE to get the whole leg cramp thing worked out though. I got one this past Sunday morning in my right calf which woke me up an hour before my alarm was set. Took 30 minutes to go away and afterwards was too awake to go back to sleep. My calf is still sore from that one as of today (Tuesday). I finally broke down and bought a bottle of quinine (not pure) and have it right by the bed. I've been taking one every morning now because this is ridiculous. Nothing is seeming to work for me...at least not yet. I've been taking magnesium glycinate at night before bed and potassium in the morning for about a month. I've increased my salt intake as well. Once I use up my current supply of magnesium glycinate I plan on trying liquid magnesium but right now I'm kind of at my wits end!0 -
@ladipoet, I have suffered with the leg cramps you describe too. It seems that everything I try will work for a couple of days, and then stop, ! Leaving me with cramps. I take salt tablets, magnesium, potassium, salt my food.....but nothing's keeps working. I would benefit from any advice on this topic too! Oh, and water is my drink of choice all day, plus, I am now drinking decaf coffee.
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Your results are great LadiPoet! Good job!
Dan
Thanks Dan. Overall I am pleased with the results. Would really LOVE to get the whole leg cramp thing worked out though. I got one this past Sunday morning in my right calf which woke me up an hour before my alarm was set. Took 30 minutes to go away and afterwards was too awake to go back to sleep. My calf is still sore from that one as of today (Tuesday). I finally broke down and bought a bottle of quinine (not pure) and have it right by the bed. I've been taking one every morning now because this is ridiculous. Nothing is seeming to work for me...at least not yet. I've been taking magnesium glycinate at night before bed and potassium in the morning for about a month. I've increased my salt intake as well. Once I use up my current supply of magnesium glycinate I plan on trying liquid magnesium but right now I'm kind of at my wits end!
Consider stopping the potassium for a week or two, see whether it is forcing your body to dump magnesium. Mine does that, so I need more magnesium, and if I add potassium, I dump magnesium in quantity. If that doesn't work, I'd go back to both for 2 weeks, then drop the magnesium while keeping the potassium.
I found out ironically that I'd always been doing potassium for cramps, when I'm far more deficient in magnesium, and it's far more effective of a treatment. Just my 2 cents!0 -
I'm kind of baffled at the lipid panel; most on keto/low-carb have much higher HDL.
HDL has been such a pain in the *kitten* for me. Before keto is was 26, so totally in the tank. First few months on keto got it up to 30 and it stayed there for awhile. A year in the gym and more activity (though still not active... outside the gym I'm still mostly sedentary) and my last result finally put my HDL at 40.0 -
I'm kind of baffled at the lipid panel; most on keto/low-carb have much higher HDL.
HDL has been such a pain in the *kitten* for me. Before keto is was 26, so totally in the tank. First few months on keto got it up to 30 and it stayed there for awhile. A year in the gym and more activity (though still not active... outside the gym I'm still mostly sedentary) and my last result finally put my HDL at 40.
I feel you there, @radiii! My HDL was 29 back in June 2011. I got it up around 40 ditching the ex, doing CICO here and there, as well as getting more active in general by the end of 2014 (so 3-3.5 years). LCHF & Keto have brought it up another 10 points to 50 in the last 9-10 months with no exercise beyond grocery shopping and the like.0 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »Consider stopping the potassium for a week or two, see whether it is forcing your body to dump magnesium. Mine does that, so I need more magnesium, and if I add potassium, I dump magnesium in quantity. If that doesn't work, I'd go back to both for 2 weeks, then drop the magnesium while keeping the potassium.
I found out ironically that I'd always been doing potassium for cramps, when I'm far more deficient in magnesium, and it's far more effective of a treatment. Just my 2 cents!
I may try that @Knit. Something has eventually got to work so thanks for the suggestion!0 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »I got it up around 40 ditching the ex.
Oh god if that improved blood work mine would be pristine by now with all of the bad decisions I have made in the past in relationships that I eventually ditched!
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KnitOrMiss wrote: »I got it up around 40 ditching the ex.
Oh god if that improved blood work mine would be pristine by now with all of the bad decisions I have made in the past in relationships that I eventually ditched!
I often joke that I dropped the 265 pound weight off my back and lost 50 pounds in 3 months, but the fact is I got married at 19, was married just shy of 17 years, stopped celebrating at 12 years (the actual divorce took forever, him dragging his feet), so for me, it was a lot of having buried myself, forgotten myself, and lost myself. The whole process of "finding" myself and figuring out who I was and all of that was and still is an ongoing adventure. I mainly meant that in that process, my daughter and i stopped eating everything out of boxes (my ex didn't like anything made from scratch) and started eating real food, we got moving together, and things started changing naturally... LOL!0 -
Yeah, I've read about how the cholesterol levels fluctuate when you are losing weight...but my problem is that my health insurance doesn't care about that. My "bad cholesterol" is way high, and so I am losing my health care benefits through work. Well, not exactly true. I have to pay 100% for coverage.
Really not happy about it.
-T.
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Yeah, I've read about how the cholesterol levels fluctuate when you are losing weight...but my problem is that my health insurance doesn't care about that. My "bad cholesterol" is way high, and so I am losing my health care benefits through work. Well, not exactly true. I have to pay 100% for coverage.
Really not happy about it.
-T.
@Teneko sorry to hear that. I ran into the same issue with life insurance. I moved triglycerides and HDL from red to well into the green zones so to speak but LDL when into the red.
In the USA I feel health care services will become more limited if we do not "eat as expected".0 -
Your results are great LadiPoet! Good job!
Dan
Thanks Dan. Overall I am pleased with the results. Would really LOVE to get the whole leg cramp thing worked out though. I got one this past Sunday morning in my right calf which woke me up an hour before my alarm was set. Took 30 minutes to go away and afterwards was too awake to go back to sleep. My calf is still sore from that one as of today (Tuesday). I finally broke down and bought a bottle of quinine (not pure) and have it right by the bed. I've been taking one every morning now because this is ridiculous. Nothing is seeming to work for me...at least not yet. I've been taking magnesium glycinate at night before bed and potassium in the morning for about a month. I've increased my salt intake as well. Once I use up my current supply of magnesium glycinate I plan on trying liquid magnesium but right now I'm kind of at my wits end!
I use Solgar Magnesium Citrate 400mg @ day. I bought another brand that also had calcium in it. It said 500mg of Mag. It didn't work as well as the Solgar even though it had more Mag in it. I got leg and toe cramps in the morning. I switched back to the Solgar, no more problems. I don't know if the calcium had an effect or if the mag was poor quality.
I don't supplement with potassium, other than an occasional lite salt. I am a heavy salt eater though. Knit may be right about the potassium. Try getting rid of that.
Here's a link you might check out:
Different Forms of Magnesium
I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / The Recipe Water Fasting / E.A.S.Y. Exercise Program
Current weight: 194.9, 119 pounds down, 16 to go. 14 months on diet0 -
Second on that recommendation: Pure Encapsulations is of high quality. I found it cheaper at Swanson vitamins online. Look for their tab called Professional Lines.0
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Thank you both. I appreciate the info!0
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There are a lot of minerals that affect the absorption of the other. Calcium and Magnesium work together. Found an article here that has some helpful info:
http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/0403/sc0403-expertadv.html
I've also had serious leg cramp problems, in spite of taking all kinds of different supplements in various forms (including whole foods). After looking over my lab work, I'm starting to think it's an absorption problem which means it's either intestinal, or the balances are wrong...i.e. I'm not absorbing one because too much / not enough of another.
It's a freakin' science, this WOE.
-T.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »In the USA I feel health care services will become more limited if we do not "eat as expected".
Seems backwards. Have markers in the labs that "show you need help", but then take away the means to do so.
-T.
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GaleHawkins wrote: »In the USA I feel health care services will become more limited if we do not "eat as expected".
Seems backwards. Have markers in the labs that "show you need help", but then take away the means to do so.
-T.
I agree @Teneko. Joint replacements is one that I read about in other countries that can be limited based on weight, smoking, etc. I understand the practice side of limiting services. As governments have to limit services more and more there will be health care services rationing of one type or another. There is no way around that fact as needs increase and financial means decrease for healthcare services.0
