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If you’ve been reading a while, you know I’m a fan of Inside Tracker. \u00a0I’ve written posts about my first test<\/a> and my second test, and you can learn a lot about how the service works in those posts. \u00a0In short, you go get a blood draw, and in a few days, you get your results and all sorts of data from Inside Tracker. \u00a0What I love is that they don’t just look at what’s considered “healthy” by your doctor, but they’re also looking at what is optimal for an athlete.<\/p>\n

It’s been a year since I’ve done tests (though I did input some data from a doctor ordered test at my annual physical last summer), and my diet hasn’t been so great as of late, so I was interested to see how the results would play out. \u00a0Turns out, the numbers were better than expected, but I still have some solid work to do.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a number of things in optimal zones, but here I’m just going to talk about where things aren’t optimal, because I believe that this is where Inside Tracker truly shows its worth.<\/p>\n

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So my blood sugar is trending up. \u00a0This isn’t a surprise. \u00a0I had done a really good job of watching my general sugar intake and lately, I’ve been finding jelly beans stored in my pocket. \u00a0So that needs to stop.<\/p>\n

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My cholesterol is down from my last test, but that was from a doctor’s test that I input myself, and it wasn’t a fasting blood test. \u00a0That said, it’s still up from my last Inside Tracker test, and that’s not something I like to see. \u00a0Much of this is genetics (joy of joys), but I can absolutely do some work on this.<\/p>\n

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Similar results with my LDL, though I’m closer to where I was at my last Inside Tracker test.<\/p>\n

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Rounding out cholesterol, we’ve got HDL and Triglycerides. \u00a0Nothing in the optimal range, but I’m working on it, but at least I’m in the officially “healthy” range.<\/p>\n

What’s key about all of these? \u00a0One big way to help these numbers is to lose body fat. \u00a0And this is exactly why I work on weight loss. \u00a0Or more importantly, fat loss. \u00a0I’m huge on accepting your body for what it is and not worrying about your weight. \u00a0But on the other hand, you also have to accept your health. \u00a0As Inside Tracker says, Blood Don’t Lie. \u00a0I’m confident there are people much heavier than me who have much better results on their blood tests, so it’s not solely weight – genetics plays a huge role here. \u00a0But for me, if I want to get my body into those optimal zones, I need to continue to whittle off the excess fat.<\/p>\n

Step one, fewer jelly beans in my pockets.<\/p>\n

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Ferritin is a number that I’ve been working on, and you can see how the change in my diet has been increasing that number every so slightly.<\/p>\n

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B12 isn’t trending in the right direction, and I think this one might be where I look into supplements. \u00a0I don’t really want to add octopus or beef liver to my diet right now.<\/p>\n

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I’ve seen pretty much no change in my Inflammation Group, which tells me that what I’m doing isn’t working. \u00a0I’m not any worse off than I was, but I’m also no better. \u00a0Once again, one of the options is reducing calorie intake, which hey, I’ll be doing anyway. \u00a0This might also be where I look into supplements. \u00a0I’m wary of adding too many supplements, but Vitamin C isn’t a bad one. \u00a0I usually only add additional Vitamin C when the plague hits my office, but maybe it’s time to make that an every day thing.<\/p>\n

In general, I’m going to research some more supplements. \u00a0This is an area where you can’t just say “Hey, I’ll take a pill for that,” because supplements aren’t all created equal. \u00a0I’ve already decided to add spirulina, because as long as you’re taking\u00a0a supplement that’s free of contaminants (do your research), there aren’t any side effects. \u00a0Other supplements don’t work in the same way, so it’s worth doing the research and talking to a medical professional.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure – as a member of Team Coeur, I get a discount on Inside Tracker tests, so I paid a discounted rate for this test, but as you can see, I’ve been a fan of the company from well before I started to receive a discount. \u00a0All opinions are my own. \u00a0As was the blood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been reading a while, you know I’m a fan of Inside Tracker. \u00a0I’ve written posts about my first test and my second test, and you can learn a lot about how the service works in those posts. \u00a0In short, you go get a blood draw, and in a few days, you get your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nInside Tracker - March 2017 Tests - 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