Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. She kept every sheet None of this would exist if she had thrown the folder away. Everything I have told you over the last few weeks came out of a manila folder my wife kept in a filing cabinet. Eighteen years of lab reports, collected one visit at a time.When we asked one of those doctors at that ...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Higher is not always better, but too low is most common. The marker where both ends raise your mortality IGF-1 is not a score. It is an instruction. Growth hormone leaves the pituitary, reaches the liver, and the liver answers by producing IGF-1. That IGF-1 then goes out to bone, to muscle, to ...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Six doors, one opened. The scanner existed the whole time. Six specialists saw my wife between 2008 and 2013. Five of them referred her onward. Not one of them ordered an image until the sixth. Here is the sequence. A Naturopathic Doctor recommended two tests to ask her doctor for:IGF-1 and growth ...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. What I think is happening, and what I cannot prove.I ruled things out before I landed anywhere. Was her blood sugar getting worse? No. Glucose fell 16 points over the four years and direct monitoring agreed. Was she iron deficient, which genuinely does distort A1c? No. Serum iron fell from 105 ...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. The chart says her average glucose was 117 to 137Here's what happens when the formula meets the actual measurement. There is a chart in every endocrinology office that converts your A1c into an estimated average glucose. It is printed on lab reports. It gets quoted back to patients as though it ...
