Finally Got Real Blood Tests. Can You Help Decipher Them?

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

My diet guy has me eating every 2.5hrs and I drink 20oz/hr of water all day long.

Am I guessing correctly that I shouldn't mention that I'm donating because I want the get my RBC count down?

Yes.
you are only doing it for your fellow human and that you want to give the gift of life especially this time of year.
you aren't drinking fluoridated water are you?
 
Yes.
you are only doing it for your fellow human and that you want to give the gift of life especially this time of year.
you aren't drinking fluoridated water are you?

It is public water that gets filtered by my fridge. That is technically fluoridated I guess. Should I not be drinking that?
 
It is public water that gets filtered by my fridge. That is technically fluoridated I guess. Should I not be drinking that?

Absolutely NOT. That stuff destroys thyroid and is a poison.
Read the harvard study on the effects of fluoride.
 
It is public water that gets filtered by my fridge. That is technically fluoridated I guess. Should I not be drinking that?

Don't tell them u take TRT either. Most lab techs don't know what to respond. I had an endo ask me once "they let you donate blood while on Testosterone"?
Ridiculous.
 
Absolutely NOT. That stuff destroys thyroid and is a poison.
Read the harvard study on the effects of fluoride.

It's always something isn't it. Where do you get your drinking water from? Bottled?

Just think how healthy I would be if I knew all this when I was 20!

Don't tell them u take TRT either. Most lab techs don't know what to respond. I had an endo ask me once "they let you donate blood while on Testosterone"?
Ridiculous.

LOL, that's funny. Sad, but funny.
 
Thanks for the info. I'm trying to absorb as much of this as possible so I can take care of myself correctly. You guys have been a big help.

I thought my dose was high from what I had seen poking around. I'm 187lb at a 11% BF. I think I'm going to back it down a bit and see how I feel. I guess there isn't much point in running more than I need to feel right/recover.

How long do you think I should wait before doing another blood test? I have a shot due tomorrow, I will back down starting then. Maybe 4 weeks and then check the results?

Thanks again

I usually like to give changes in Test dosages six weeks.
 
That is a LOT of water!

You Don?t Need 8 Glasses Of Water A Day | FiveThirtyEight


It is OK to talk about donating blood. It is good for you and it saves people's lives.

Yeah, my diet guy (who is pretty respected nationally) wants me drinking that much because of one, all the protein I eat. And two, I didn't do myself any favors in my 30's taking Rx pain meds (they were prescribed). I'm pretty busted up from racing/crashing motorcyles. I stopped taking that stuff years ago and I just deal with the pain now. But I didn't do my kidneys any favors. My BUN and creatinine numbers are not fantastic even drinking a ton of water.

I abused myself most of my life (18-35). Be it busting myself up, partying, not sleeping enough, not eating right, etc. I never really thought I would live to 40. Huge crash with resulting death right at the top of the list of possibilities. I had no plan for this part. Now I'm trying to do the best with what I haven't ruined. Zero regret. But I'm paying for it.
 
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Ya well the author is an associate professor of economics. ...
shes not a dr. Or scientist. Sort of out of her league and she has no scientific facts to suport her blog.
big study out of Harvard says it lowers IQ...

So I guess we shouldn't listen to anything you say either since you don't have an MD after your name. :-)
 
Comments on the Harvard Meta-Data Study:

The second significant concern is that fluoride interferes with neurodevelopment and lowers children’s IQ. This is not quite as easy to dismiss. A 2012 National Research Council meta-analysis of studies that compared children in high-fluoride and low-fluoride areas concluded that fluoride exposure significantly lowered IQ. The effect in this study is reasonably large. The National Research Council gives some credence to these studies, arguing that more research should be done.

These studies, however, must be taken with a grain — maybe even a whole box — of salt. They largely rely on data from China, and the variation in fluoride levels there arises not from community water fluoridation but from natural variation in the water’s fluoride levels. The biggest issue is that the “high” fluoride levels are much, much higher than you’d see in the United States. In fact, the low fluoride level group in these studies has a level similar to what is typical in the U.S. for tap water. So even if we take the conclusions of these studies at face value, it is not at all clear whether they apply to the U.S.
 
I think you are missing the point. Everyone seems to agree that too much fluoride consumption is bad for humans. However the amount found in fluoridated drinking water in the US isn't likely to be at harmful levels.
 
I think you are missing the point. Everyone seems to agree that too much fluoride consumption is bad for humans. However the amount found in fluoridated drinking water in the US isn't likely to be at harmful levels.

Drinking 20 oz.'s of fluoridated water per hour and on a daily basis should be a hefty dose of Fluoride.
 
Drinking 20 oz.'s of fluoridated water per hour and on a daily basis should be a hefty dose of Fluoride.

How much fluoride would he be consuming with that amount of water consumption? How does that compare to the amount of fluoride that is ingested during normal tooth brushing?
 
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