[Discussion] we are measuring bloodwork at the wrong time and calling it noise
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking bloodwork against eGFR for 5 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.
Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.
tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Do you have baseline to compare to?
ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first
HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
My eGFR went from 24 to 6 in 42 weeks. The A1c story shows up in the trend, not the single number.
Baseline triglycerides: 98.3. Week 79: 99.1. Same lab, fasted, same time of day. Trend matters.
What are your reference ranges?
ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first
Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.
Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 8 week noise, 40 week trend. Do not panic at week 9.
ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it
Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.
ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first
Slight fix: the number was 94.2, not 95.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
nobody here can tell you what a result means for you
post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it
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