Attached is the report. What the doctor basically told me is my heart is thick but not insane thick. He knows I have been on AAS/HRT for 10yrs and from his opinion unless I start increasing doses or doing more cycles my heart thickness will not get thicker. But it shouldn't be where it's at now and it should be reversed. He said chances of future heart disease are much greater with a thick heart. He said the only way to decrease the thickness is to keep blood pressure under control, keep body weight in general under control, and add cardio. Anyone with experience can you read the lab and let me know how thick or bad my heart is? I obviously don't want it to get any worse but clearly I would like to do some cycles in the future.
Make sure gotgame sees this as he's the most qualified to answer this. Also, Muscledoc1 happens to be a cardiac sonographer
It's weird how any issues I have ever seen on my echo are the opposite of yours. The one think that stood out to me was your EF decreased from 63 to 51. Not that 50-51 is that bad, but it's at the low end of the normal range and the 12% decrease is worth monitoring.
I don't know what supplements, if any, you take, but if I were you, I'd buy the following supplements. These have all been proven to reduce EF. I take them all and my EF is 60%, which is an INCREASE from 55%.
- arjuna gold from amazon (2 caps daily)
- d-ribose (15g-20g daily). That would be absolutely mandatory and it's an easy purchase.
- pine bark extract aka pycnogel
- ubiquinol (assuming you take this already because if you don't, what are you thinking??)
I believe if you don't buy these, you don't care enough about your health. They have too much positive data on them and it's a drop in the bucket financially. Don't be a cheap bastard. Just google all their effects on EF and invest in your health. My apologies if you already take them.
As for the other results on the echo regarding the thickness, I don't want to pretend to be an expert but I probably know more than most people on here since I've had a whole lot of echos. Admittedly, I only have paid attention to the results I get that are either not good or borderline, but at the end of the day, the solution is the same. Keep blood pressure low, maintain a low resting heart rate, take these supplements (anyone who tries to argue these supplements aren't worth it for heart health without reading the data on them...screw you).
Curcumin...if you don't already take it, take it (duh)
I'd definitely add an ARB, preferably Telmisartan. This is very important. Too many reasons why. Google it if you don't know why. See if you can get an RX or get it online easily.
And metformin. I am saying this without knowing your A1C and fasting blood glucose levels but it's worth the few cents it costs to take.
As for cardio, do HIIT cardio. CHALLENGE yourself. 3x per week.
But what do I know, I only have perfect bloodwork (sometimes hct/hgb goes up), perfect blood presssure and an improved echo cardiogram after nearly dying 3 years ago.
My apologies for the tone of the post! Just want to get my point across before the anti-supplement nazis who don't read about them try to argue.