Optimal blood test ranges: the normal range next to the line stated on video

“now the general rule of thumb is that you would like to see an A and ALT both below about 30 IU per liter”

“by the time you're in your late 30s or early 40s if you have any measure of apo b that's even north of the 20th percentile that should be completely lowered, so in some ways i would view an apob ceiling of 60 as the limit”

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“the level you should have is under 90 but ideally probably under 70 and if you have cardiovascular disease may be under 50”

“now the general rule of thumb is that you would like to see an A and ALT both below about 30 IU per liter”

“So, for fasting glucose, ideally, you're looking at 70 to 80. It doesn't mean if you're 81 that it's something you don't have to panic about it. It's going to fluctuate.”

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“your fasting blood sugar should be between 70 to 90”

“I generally like to see the fasting glucose below 90 milligrams per deciliter”

“yet the ideal insulin should be under five not 15”

“the insulin reference range they have is 18 as normal, and anything above that is abnormal and anything below is normal. It should be five or less.”

“So we'd like to know what your fasting insulin is, and optimally, it would be less than five”

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“the fasting insulin below six.”

“if your your level's under 45 it's going to affect your health even though the reference range on the lab says 16 or above is normal 45 or above should be the normal range or the optimal range”

“Not the optimum level that you I might think is good like vitamin D over 45 or feritin iron store over 45”

“ferritin is the marker of iron stores in the body and we want that ferritin in general to be you know around 50 to 70 you don't want it to be too high because that's not good”

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“If you were part of my high performance athletic crew, we want to see minimum 50, preferably 100. So, we have to supplement you to bring it up”

“if someone's TSH is between about 0.5 and 2.0 and they're free t3 is above 3.0 and their reverse t3 is below 12 I find it very hard to see how they could have hypothyroidism”

“so between a gtt between 15 and 20 means you've done a good job of getting rid of enough toxins that the body doesn't have to increase gtt”

“Well, there's nothing magical about getting your A1C below 7. The health threats begin at an A1C of 5.3 and 5.4.”

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“six is sort of the cut off, five and a half is really optimal.”

“Your HDL should be over 60 ideally, over 50 if you can manage it.”

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“If HDLs are important to the cardiovascular system — and I maintain they are — the metric HDL cholesterol is useless.”

“I like seeing uric acid below 5, homocysteine below 9 — these are some of the metrics that I'm really looking at consistently.”

“I take these to keep homocysteine below nine.”

“I like to see c-reactive protein below 1, even though most labs consider anything below 2 reasonable.”

“I like seeing c-reactive protein below one, ideally below point five.”

“showing a U-shaped relationship between igf-1 levels and mortality both very high and very low igf-1 were linked to higher death rates what was the optimal range it was actually around 120 to 160 nanog per milliliter”

“for that test we like to see people less than 50 nano mole per liter. when people are sort of fifty to a hundred I put them in kind of a gray area”

“normal quote normal serum magnesium levels are about 1.8 to 2.3 but I think anything under two is linked to increased health risks and Optimum level should be over two so if you're getting a serum magnesium it should be over two”

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“so our body will just continually pull from our bones to prevent magnesium levels from going below 0.7 m per liter for this reason plasma magnesium is not a good indicator of magnesium status for most healthy adults”

“we think and what we call the omega-3 index which is EPA plus DHA in red cell membranes our target is 8 to 12 percent just that's a range we think is the healthy range average American is around 5% maybe four or five percent”

“you should be really low like it should be less than two nanograms per milliliter now the reference range goes up to four uh but individuals with levels below four can still have prostate cancer so it's important to to look at the progression of Rise”

“if your PSA is below two the probability you have a lethal prostate cancer is, you know, less than one in a million, so we don't have to worry about that individual”

“if someone's TSH is between about 0.5 and 2.0 and they're free t3 is above 3.0 and their reverse t3 is below 12 I find it very hard to see how they could have hypothyroidism”

“if someone's TSH is between about 0.5 and 2.0 and they're free t3 is above 3.0 and their reverse t3 is below 12 I find it very hard to see how they could have hypothyroidism”

“now we typically say for a male you should have a testosterone level over 500 but probably it should be more like six seven eight even 900”

“So I I shoot for the normal range of 500 to a thousand.”

“to the lipids I generally take a harder line on triglycerides than is typically given, so the typical reference range on triglyceride is less than 150 milligrams per deciliter — apologize, I don't know what that is in millimolar for people who are outside of the United States — I generally like to see triglycerides below 100”

“they have normal triglycerides, which are being defined as less than 150. We argue in our practice that's very high, and anything over 100 is elevated.”

“if someone's TSH is between about 0.5 and 2.0 and they're free t3 is above 3.0 and their reverse t3 is below 12 I find it very hard to see how they could have hypothyroidism”

“you want to see your TSH kind of below 2 ish and that tells you that your brain is adequately seeing t4 converted into t3”

“I like to see uric acid below 5.0 — again, most labs consider anything below 6 to be normal, some labs even consider anything below 7 to be normal.”

“I like seeing uric acid below 5, homocysteine below 9 — these are some of the metrics that I'm really looking at consistently.”

“it's non-negotiable, all my patients need a uric acid below 5, even though the assay says we will consider normal up to seven point zero.”

“Most people can take a supplement in the range of 2,000 to 4,000 IUs a day depending where your blood levels are at and keep keep their vitamin D levels within that, you know, 40 to 60 range.”

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“the optimal reference range is is probably 45 to 75 up to 100 is fine as well”

“I think going above 60 nanograms per milliliter is probably still okay like going to 80 you know like there's there's studies looking at 80 and it's still associated with lower all cause mortality”

“I do think that it's critical that we have adequate vitamin D3 levels so take enough vitamin D3 to get you in that ideal range uh uh 60 to 80 nanograms per ml”

“...the other poor man's way to get a V LDL-C. And I like to see that number less than 15 milligrams per deciliter.”