Week 0 Blood Results

 At the start of this experiment, I thought it would be interesting to get a full set of blood results to:

1. see if my lifestyle up to this point had created any problems that might lead to more serious issues in the future;
2. get a baseline so I can see how the keto diet impacts (hopefully) positively or negatively on key blood markers.

I used a company called MediChecks (and their Ultimate Performance Blood Test which covered a wide range of tests covering diabetes, vitamins, hormones, immune system, and more. I paid my money, they sent me a kit and I went to a local superdrug to get my blood taken, popped the sample in the post and the results arrived 5 days later.

The results appeared on my online medichecks account with a nice traffic light view to quickly see where any abnormalities lay. In addition, they came with a GP report which talked about the abnormalities and contained advice on what they might mean and what I could do about them. I was impressed. I've had blood tests from my own GP before but never had them explained in this way.

The results are shown in the screenshots at the end of this post. Nothing overly alarming but a few things to act on and monitor:

1. LDL (bad) cholesteral slightly above the healthy range
2. Slightly high uric acid may indicate gout risk (my Dad has gout!)
3. High Creatine Kinase (CK) - but I suspect this was because I cycled hard before the sample was taken
4. My iron is ok but something going on with high transferrin levels (I need to read up on this!)
5. Low vitamin D - time to start taking supplements
6. Raised bilirubin levels may indicate Gilbert's disease