how much of what we believe about ferritin actually comes from bloodwork threads
how much of what we believe about ferritin actually comes from bloodwork threads. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. Tracked fasting insulin against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing. How to make a…
Fasting or not, and what time of day?
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
peptidemeter_pat is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
draw at the same point in the week if you want comparability
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.
Fasting or not, and what time of day?
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.