week 67 check-in — 10kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me
week 67 check-in — 10kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones.
Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: week 67 and 10kg.
Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration. Comparing across labs adds a systematic offset that is invisible on the report.
Time of day, fasting state, hydration and recent exercise all move common markers. Standardising the draw conditions is free and it removes most of the apparent variability.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.
This. Reference ranges are population intervals, not targets, and conflating them causes a lot of unnecessary alarm here.
Substantial weight loss independently moves lipids, liver enzymes and several other markers. Attributing a change to a compound while losing weight is confounded by design.
Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.
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Right, and weight loss itself moves several markers, so attribution is harder than these threads assume.
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Cosigning on baseline. The panel I regret most is the one I did not take before starting.
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
That is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
baseline before you start is worth more than any later panel
assay method matters, especially between different labs
draw at the same point in the week if you want comparability
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