Latest Doctors Appointment
$1,500 later…
Metametrix Organix Basic Profile
Methylation
I am not overmethylated or undermethylated. My folate was slightly low, but not enough to cause issues.
Neurotransmitters
Everything is in range.
Fatty Acid Metabolism
Great
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Great
Mitochindrial / Energy Production
Great
B-Vitamins
Slight B-6 deficiency. Nothing that would cause issues though.
Lipid Peroxides
High. I can’t really remember what she said about this though.
What are Lipid Peroxides? In its effort to produce the chemical energy to power your cells and fight infection, your body makes harmful chemical called free radicals. Breakdown of you bodys cell metabolism by free radicals leads to the formation of lipid peroxides. Antioxidants prtect you against this process, and the lipid peroxide test tells you if you have enough of these antioxidansts in your system. High levels are associated with cancer, heart disease, stroke, and aging.
Spectracell LipoProtein Particle Profile
This test measures a bunch of stuff and seemed to be what she was most concerned with.
All of the following were fine
-CRP (highly sensitive)
-Homocysteine
-Insulin
-Total cholesterol
-HDL
-Triglycerides
Not so fine
Then it starts to get into a bunch of markers for the actual Lipoprotein Particles. This is were she said she was concerned. My “small dense HDL particles” were off the charts high and some other cholesterol particles were highish. Also my Apo B-100 marker was high which “could be a genetic thing”
She said that she often sees this in elderly males with erectile dysfunction. Basically these particles flow around in the blood and cause vascular or blood flow issues.
Major inflammation
She also said that it shows that there if some sort of major inflammation going on and that is why these particles are so elevated, but trying to figure out what is causing it right now is a shot in the dark. She wanted to do a complete food allergy test to see if that could be it, but as of right now I am not going to do that because it will be another $1,000 test.
For now she wants to try to control the inflammation through diet so I will be starting a Paleo diet with 100g or less of carbs a day, with zero dairy and zero gluten, as well as an inflammation supplement. She actually said that the inflammation was high enough that she almost wanted to try a keto diet…with 15g of carbs or less.
Retest in a few months (another $600 FML).
–Why is CRP low but other inflammatory marker high?? I wish I would have asked this, but I remember her mentioning something about how inflammation in difference parts of the body are diagnosed and treated differently.
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I was seriously surprised that my neurotransmitters were fine. I would have put $100 on it that my norepinephrine was high and causing my Dopamine to be low. The metabolites test actually showed the opposite. Norepinephrine and Epinephrine were on the lower side of the range and Dopamine was on the higher side.
I have mentioned the prostate issues as well as how I now think it is Pelvic Myoneuropathy (Tension) and she really does seem to think its an issue at all. I need to get that checked from another doctor.
I have already dished out $1,500. These tests are mad expensive and the appointments themselves are $270 just for a follow up. The original appointment was $345. I am literally going poor and in debt and am not sure if its worth continuing here as I have spent easily $6,000 in the past 6 years on 8+ doctors. The sad thing is every breakthrough I have made has been to make myself better has been by myself without the help of these doctors.
