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Following up from this, I don’t see how you could have a better lipid panel than this, which is a clip right off my Med record on Kaiser’s website, results obtained yesterday: Total Cholesterol is really a bullshit number, because observe that I could get to an “ideal” <200 by making my HDL worse, like say 50. Triglycerides way low, just like you want, and HDLs stratospheric, also, just like you want. LDL is only 4 points off “above optimal” figure of <100. The ratios are as follows: Total/HDL = 2.1 (average is 4-6 and ideal is 2-3; I’m on the extreme end of ideal) HDL/LDL = 1 (average is .3-.4 and ideal is above .4; again extreme end of ideal) Triglyceride/HDL = .4 (optimal is <2, so again, extreme end of ideal) While my fasting glucose seems high at 109, free insulin was only 6 (standard being 4-29, lower the better) and Glycohemoglobin (HGBA1C %) comes in at 4.8 (standard range 4.6 – 6 with the lower range being optimal). Glycohemoglobin is the percent of hemoglobin with sugar bound to it and doesn’t change very rapidly over time, while a blood glucose test is sugar levels at that moment,…

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