I’d say that things started going downhill for me right around 40.
2016 was a very bad year for me. I went through quite a bit and it all came crashing down at one time. My body couldn’t take the stress and all the poor dietary decisions I had made (and gotten away with) my whole life came back to haunt me.
2017 I started trying to recover and recomp. Cleaned up everything and started hitting the weights pretty hard. Keto wrecked my lipids for a while (LDL over 200) and I finally got wise to that. Since then I’ve learned to keep everything in a good place by grilling most of my meats (usually chicken breast and either cod or talapia), using healthy fat based oils, and limiting the saturated fat intake.
I can keep it in a good place, but even then my LDL is a little higher than I would like. I keep the HDL up so I guess it’s ok.
When I’m consistent with diet, my LDL is 135-138 with and HDL of 55 or so. After 5-6 weeks of no gym time and being a little loose with the diet, the LDL jumped to 143 and HDL dropped to 47.
Are these even big enough changes to be considered as actual changes? The tests themselves have a tolerance of some amount + / - but I have no idea how much it is on these in particular.
I was kind of thinking the same thing as @ncsugrad2002. It doesn’t seem like a big enough change to be able to attribute it to something. If it’s something you worry about maybe try getting bloods checked in slither couple months and see if there is a trend. Then you’d know something is happening and you can start looking for answers.
Melatonin is amazing. I take megadoses of 20 mg a day. It does nothing for my sleep but the health benefits are amazing. It’s actually being studied as a preventative agent for Covid complications. It prevents corona viruses from attaching to lung tissue. It also inhibits cytokines storms.
I dont think normal healthy people should have anything to worry about covid anyway, especially with high testosterone and estradiol levels like most in this forum.
There is no any key in fighting covid except having a healthy body. If you move your brain a but you will find out what is the role of TRT in that.
And by the way there is a study regarding COVID and high test level but it a pure association
I don’t know about TRT but men with low natural T levels are much more likely to not only get Covid but have more severe symptoms. Dr Rhonda Patrick was explaining it on the JRE podcast recently. She also stated that in one study assessing a large group of folks that got Covid something like 94% of them had low vitamin D levels. It’s not established yet whether Covid has a negative effect on Vitamin D levels or whether low Vitamin D makes you more susceptible.
It’s crazy that you don’t see anyone touting things like diet and building up a healthy immune system in the media. It’s all about about masks and social distancing that is basically a bandaid at best. “Be sure to wear your mask on the way to the gas station to get your Snicker bar & 32oz Coca Cola Classic with the big straw”.
This COVID shit was a big scam. Overblowing influenza type virus and ye nobody talking about prevention and health optimization.
Ive tested at least for me Vitamin D works in preventing disease. Up to two years ago I was getting sick every 2-3 months and taking antibiotics two times a year.
In December 2018 I optimized my vitamin D. Since then I got sick only one type in December 2019, it was influenza or could be COVID(I dont care thats why havent spent 20 euro on antibodies test). While I was sick I was taking paracetamol and spent all the time in the restaurants of a nearby ski resort.
The only reason I didnt snowboard in that time was the 39 degree celsius temperature I had
How are you this stupid? It actually has nothing in common with influenza. You really need to get your head out of your ass here. Right now, in Nicaragua (Where they took zero government precautions and the government had your attitude) virtually everyone has it, had it, or is dead. It is coded as “Atypical pneumonia”, for standard dictatorship reasons. There are young people extremely ill and the hospitals are having to put them in beds outside under a tent in the parking lots because there is no room left and they are running out of oxygen masks and bottles. I nomally ignore you these days, and then you spout off something this ignorant. A lot of people have died in spite of precautions and extreme measures. Business as usual would have been pretty horrific.
Oh trust me Ive done my research about COVID, how it developed in different parts of the world because for two weeks Ive also shitted myself because of that.
Here our government took precautions, but they were only in paper. And thanks good we were all the time breaking a lot of them, gathering as usual and streets were full.
Influenze does not mean flu, just to enlighten you on that.
First, it is likely to be low being so incredibly contagious. Id all 330 million people in the US got it, that would still be 9.9 million dead. Flattening the curve (Everyone will get this virus eventually, it’s not actually about preventing transmission) means that there is enough availability to treat the sick with serious complications as opposed to overwhelming available services, which lowers the death rate. I know people that have died from it that would not have died if they were somewhere with better medical services available.
Point taken. In the US here we’re doing fine in basically every city except maybe NY, which got a surge it had some difficulty with. In most other places the hospitals are almost literally empty.
It does seem that every now and then, COVID-19 will catch someone young and healthy, which is curious and scary. Otherwise it seems to be a largely nosocomial illness impacting a population that, to be a bit calloused about it, was going to die soon anyway. If I remember correctly, in the US, the median age of death from COVID-19 is greater than the average life expectancy.
I’m sitting in South Carolina right now. I do volunteer work in Nicaragua (And other places, just there at the moment). I was just in Canada. I have seen first-hand the differences in approach. The vast majority will suffer nothing serious long-term from Covid. That’s why you get the stupid attitudes from the ignorant. Most people didn’t die from the Spanish Flu either. The main idea was to not lose a bunch of lives due to lack of capacity, and better compliance would have shortened the whole process. Every time there is a flare up it sets things back. It’s the “It’s just the flu bro” mentality pisses me off. Who knows what happens with the second wave, and the second wave is what did most of the killing during the Spanish Flu.
It depends. I’ve done construction, right now it’s more like missionary work, which puts some people off because they think I’m doing something that I’m not and many seem to be anti anything faith related. But that’s who typically picks up the slack for the oppressed and downtrodden.
