I turned 70. Here’s what my bloodwork actually says. And why “normal for your age” is the most dangerous phrase in medicine.

Hey Reader, Dr Karl here.

I turned 70 last week. So I did 70 push-ups — and then I did something more useful. I put my actual blood work on screen.

Not theory. Not a study about other people. My numbers.

Here’s why that matters. Most people my age get a lab report back with a row of check marks and the words “normal for your age,” and they walk out reassured. But think about what that phrase actually means. It means you’ve been compared to a population that is, by any honest measure, mostly metabolically sick.

​Being normal in a sick population is not the same thing as being healthy.
It never was.

Your doctor isn’t hiding this from you. They’re boxed in — a ten-minute visit, a reimbursement code for each value, and no code at all for “look at how these numbers move together.” So the reading is value-against-reference-range, and then you’re done.

That’s the trap. And it’s the reason a person can be told they’re fine for a decade while the actual trajectory is heading somewhere they wouldn’t accept if they could see it.

I walked through my own panel — insulin, IGF-1, triglycerides and HDL, homocysteine — and showed exactly where I fall against the people I work with.
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​Some of it surprised me. One number moved the wrong way, and finding out why turned into a story I didn’t expect to tell.

Here’s the video

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More on Friday — I’ll show you the two numbers that, read alone, would have had me labeled pre-diabetic.

To your health,
Dr. Goldkamp

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