How To Use The Wonderful World Of Self-Quantification To Take Your Health Into Your Own Hands (& The 11 Best Blood Tests To Get).
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Optimizing Health Through Hormone Testing and Magnesium
This chapter emphasizes the critical role of blood tests and hormone levels in health optimization, particularly for magnesium, estrogen, testosterone, and DHEA. It outlines effective measurement methods and stresses the importance of personalized assessments while considering the influence of stress on hormone availability.
I recently had the pleasure to speak at the fabulous and intriguing "Kentucky Castle", a unique destination hotspot with a full biohacking facility, sauna, farm-to-table restaurant, precision medicine arm, hemp farm, horse facilities and much more. The castle is owned by one of the physicians who hosts the "Wild Health" podcast, on which I was recently a guest.
This is part one of a two part series that addresses the oft-confusing world of "taking your health into your own hands" via genetic testing, blood and biomarker tracking, sleep measurements and other forms of self-quantification. In part two, you'll get to sit in on a very interesting post-talk Q&A with myself and several of the physicians in attendance at the conference. Enjoy!
**Editor's Note: Forgive the extraneous background noises. All effort was made to ensure the clearest possible sound in spite of it :)
In this episode, you'll discover... -Ben's history as a bodybuilder, triathlete and his transition to his current message...9:00- Bodybuilding is a bit of a biohacking sport
- Ben began to take lab tests and was shocked at the results
- Pre-type 2 diabetes; inflammation
- Healthy on the outside but dying on the inside
- Inspired his first book Beyond Training
- Doesn't work primarily with athletes anymore; mainly people who want to feel good and live a long time
- Lab results indicate an absence of disease, not necessarily one's potential for health and longevity
- Insulin sensitivity, physical performance
- Different from extracellular magnesium
- Intracellular Diagnostics
- Jigsaw Health
- Men need to be concerned with estrogen, not just women
- Dutch Test
- Women should be concerned, not just men
- Hormones can be bound up by proteins
- You want 2% of your testosterone to be free
- Link between inflammation and heart attack risk
- Numbers will vary depending on your workout regimen
- Is more important in determining your risk for C/V disease than total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol
- HGL to total cholesterol level: lower is better
- Tells you the size of your cholesterol particles
- You want the particles to be "large and fluffy"; count should be low
- You want the Omega 3 index to be higher
- Highest risk zone (4% and below) = 90% chance of C/V disease
- Good for getting bulked up; not so much for longevity
- View life as a set of press/pull cycles
- You want to live long, and live an enjoyable life too
- Work hard, eat red meat one day; fast and yoga the next
- Sweet spot: 80-150
- Lipid peroxides result when interact with iron in the production of hydrogen peroxide (rust effect in the body)
- High iron levels contribute to a number of diseases and conditions
- Ben's big beef with food allergy tests; you get a bunch of false positives
- Inaccuracies
- No double tests for each protein
- Cyrex Array 10 C: Ben's gold standard food allergy test
- Must be ordered by a doctor
- Viome
- Onegevity
- Mold toxins
- See Cyrex Array 10 C above
- Micronutrients
- Micronutrient analysis
- Gut
- Microbiome test won't track parasites
- GI Effects comprehensive stool panel
- Genes
-Book: Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams -Oura Ring
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