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#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting

The Peter Attia Drive

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Is There a Reference Range for LDL?

At baseline which was on June 21st this is basically following about six months of time restricted feeding restricting sugar but not carbohydrates. Underneath that you have some metabolic markers that I pay great attention to like uric acid homocysteine and BUN as a proxy for how much protein was probably in my diet. Then we get into markers of insulin resistance and or adipocyte function so leptin levels didn't really change at all throughout this experiment same with adiponectin. And then the hormones specifically thyroid hormone which I suspected might be interesting and sex hormones which turned out to be kind of interesting as well though I wouldn't have predicted this necessarily. You're then see four of these

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