“Your old panel was a snapshot. I can see more in it today”

Hey Reader, Dr Karl here.

You’re getting this because we’ve actually worked together either recently or in the past.
Your panel was in my file, and I read it the way I read everything — not by asking whether your numbers were “in range,” but by laying them over the scatter plot of other people’s numbers and seeing where your numbers sat, and where they broke from the pattern.

This isn’t a email blast to everyone. Only to those I’ve worked with and whose labs I’ve already read.

What’s changed? That cloud of collective data has grown. A lot.
When your results were in front of me, I could set you against far fewer people. Today I can drop your constellation onto a much larger, stratified group — people matched to you by age, insulin-resistance status, blood type, genomics — and show you where your results actually lands among people who look like you on paper.

The part that matters most: where you deviate. When your data sits where the pattern says it shouldn’t for someone with your profile, that’s not noise. That’s the signal — the thing worth chasing. A reference range can never show you that, because a reference range compares you to everyone. I compare your lab results to each other NOT TO A GENERIC RANGE for that single lab test.
Here’s an example of three lab results. How your doctor sees it and how I see it.

The ‘Wow’ Factor That’s why I’m writing. Your data laid over today’s cohort would show you something you’ve never seen — not a number against a range, but your pattern against the collective pattern. The question I want to answer is: Do your results fit the pattern?

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Notice the different patterns between Non IR (non insulin resistant) and IR-people (insulin resistant) groups. They have completely separate patterns …. How’s that possible?

One more thing worth mentioning, since it’s been a while for most of you. This past year I wrote two books on exactly this — how to read the relationships in your own Lab work instead of chasing one value at a time. The thinking on the table when we worked together is now written down. Another book is on the way for even more granular lab data pattern interpretation to aid you in your pursuit of understanding your health.

I’ll send a couple more notes in the coming weeks on what that overlay reveals. If you already want your numbers read against the dataset again with new labwork, just reply. I read every reply myself — same as I always did.

To your health,
Dr. Goldkamp

Links to our published books are on our website​

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