Blood Work Detective. Can You Help Me Solve the Mystery?

The practical approach is first to not get very excited about any of this. I appreciate their formula for predicting age … but it’s not outcome based (sadly). If you are 12 years younger on their approach, does this mean you have the same years of life left as a typical 38 yr old? That’s what one would assume, but the data isn’t there to support these outcome measures.

With HsCRP, Monocytes, Ferritin all can go up with a chronic infection, inflammation, autoimmune disease, acute infections also. Sirolimus, statins, Curcumin, Omega 3’s all help - but an evaluation for an underlying condition may be reasonable, as much as the abnormalities are minor. Could there actually be iron overload at a low level? Possibly, but ferritin is also an inflammatory marker.

Free T being low - worth a recheck and if so - consideration of discussion with a physician whether to address this.

MCV not exciting - and still normal - typically things that increase this include alcohol use, B12 or Folate deficiency.

IGF-1 being up - most common issues are too much protein in the diet, too much growth hormone, low cortisol. Rapamycin typically drives this down.

DHEA-S - can address with direct supplementation, but sometimes improves simply with normalizing testosterone. I’d typically check a 4 point salivary cortisol on someone with this (ZRT offers this).

That would be my quick general approach on this - but as usual - don’t implement anything based on this general discussion without consulting your doctor.

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@DrFraser Thanks for that response! Maybe I need to cut out my protein supplement to lower IGF-1. It probably won’t affect my HS-CRP or liver enzyme issues, but may affect other biomarkers as well.

It seems that your take on this is that there’s not much to worry about. It seems like the low testosterone is your biggest concern followed by the inflammation.

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