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How lean are you?Guys,
I wanted to provide a follow up of my last health test, where about 6 months ago I decided I was going to check my cardiovascular system after turning 46 yo. Motivated for personal reasons (business) and for health reasons (people passing away on the industry and friends of mine also bodybuilders that passed away in their 40s).
I have been dealing with high blood pressure for a while and finally decided that was time to take measures to bring it under control, which I did. I have had issues with high cholesterol all my life, despite having a clean diet for year, I was always high LDL and high total Cholesterol, my max reading was 400+ total Cholesterol at one point.
Men in my family tend to get diabetic and eventually they have died due to organ complications mainly hear attacks, but all of them have died between 73 and 92 years old, so no early deaths in my family history.
First battery of test was:
Calcium Score. Result: Zero
Angiogram CT. Result: No visible plaque was found
EKG. Result: The EKG showed an electrical alteration, like if my heart was using more electricity than normal to beat. According to the doctor this could be a sign of hypertrophy of the walls of the heart, and this could be due to a. exercise (reversible) or due to b. high BP (not reversible). He recommended an eco-cardiogram and a stress test
Eco. Result: My heart is normal size and it does not presents any thickness on the walls of the heart. My ejection fraction is normal. However, it seems that the vails of the heart valves, which allow the flow of blood in and out of the heart, one of them is a little larger than the other one, so when they close, the large one overlaps the other one and there is a little blood licking out... he says I probably was born with that and that as long as I keep my BP under control it should be no issue.
So all good new this far...
Now, the stress test: The stress test has 7 stages of difficulty. I had to stop the nebivolol a few days prior this test.... when I got to stage 3 which was not demanding a lot from me, I could kept going as I do a lot of cardio in thr first place, but by then my blood pressure was already 220 over 92, which according to the protocol is a red flag and the test most be stopped, which the Dr. did. So that's a concern why my BP skyrocketed like that despite me being on BP meds?
Bloodwork:
Special chemistry:
Brain natriuretic peptide test: <20.0 pg/ml
GLYCOHEMOGLOBIN 6.2 (4.0-6.0) RED FLAG HERE
Average Blood Glucose: 143 (65-136) RED FLAG HERE
PCR high sensitivity: 0.72 mg/l (Low : < 1.0)
MICROALBUMINURIA (Random): 3.03 ug/ml (0-30)
Free T4: 1.00 ng/dl (0.79-2.19)
TSH (Thyroid Stim. Horm.): 2.77 (0.40-5.00)
CREATINE PHOSPHOKINASE (CPK): 1033 U/L (24-195) RED FLAG HERE? My CPK is always thru the roof*
CALCIUM: 9.6 mg/dl (8.4-10.2)
Complete Blood Count:
W. Blood Cells: 6.35 (4.00-11.00)
R. Blood Cells: 5.27 (4.00-6.20)
Hemoglobine: 15.9 (11.0-18.0)
Hematocrits: 47.4 (33.0-55.0)
VCM: 89.9 (80-100)
HCM: 30.2 (26.0-34.0)
CCMH: 33.5 (31.0-35.0)
IDE: 13.6 (10.0-16.0)
Platelets: 273 (150-400)
Everything else on this panel in range so no red flags...
Urine:
Color: Yellow
Look: light
Specific G.: 1.015
ph: 5.0
GLUCOSE: negative
ALBUMIN: negative
NITRITOS: negative
ACETONE: negative
H. BLOOD: negative
BILIS: negative
WHITE CELLS: 0-2 X C
CEL. EPITHELIAL: Not many
General Chemistry:
Glucose: 108 RED FLAG HERE
UREA NITROGEN: 38 (not concern about this one)
Creatinine: 1.3 RED FLAG HERE
URIC ACID: 4.7
Cholesterol: 101
TRIGLYCERIDES: 37
HDL-CHOLESTEROL: 45
LDL-CHOLESTEROL: 49
Total protein: 6.60
Albumine: 4.49
Globuline: 2.11
T. OXALACETICA (TGO/AST): 27
T. PYRUVICA (TGP/ALT): 32
Sodium: 139
Potassium: 4.2
Summary: my main concern is obviously my blood glucose levels, I need to figure out what of all these is f-ing up my slin sensitive... Any thoughts or advice will be much appreciated. Is this diabetic state reversible?
A little background about me:
Age: 46 year old
Training: 30 years
Seriously training and competing: 10 years
Starting Body weight: 173 pounds
Max ever weight: 275 pounds (my max ever 18 months ago)
Stage weight: 225 pounds (max ever)
Current weight: 230 pounds
BF: and circa 10%
Use of PEDs: 12 years
Used AAS: anavar, anadrol, testosterone (in all its forms), winstrol, bodelnone, primobolan, trebolone, deca, and NPP.
Current Cycle: been on 150mg of test and 150mg a week for 5 months
Max ever blast: 2g of test, 1g of tren, 1g of primobolan, 200 mg of anavar, and 100 mg of anadrol on training days for about 20 weeks
For fat loss: clen
Growth factors: HGH
Max GHG ever: 14 ius on training days
Current growth factor: 2 ius per day
Insulin: Lantus and Human R
Max Insulin: 100 ius of Lantus day for about 1 to 2 weeks and then off / but usually it will be 10 ius of Humar-R insulin with every meal 6 times a day.
Cycle protocol: Blast and bridge for the most part of the last 12 years, with a few up to 4 months could turkey drop of all drugs
Medications:
Ibersartan 300mg per day (blood pressure)
Ibapamide 1.5mg a day (blood pressure)
Quetiapine 900mg a day (stress and insomnia)
Nobivolol 5mg a day (heart rate and BP)
Allegra F (allergies)
Atorvastatine 20mg
Ezetimibe 10mg
Diet:
Very clean diet
Very low read meet high in seafood and chicken
Includes carbs and fruits ( I spent many years on low to no carbs diets)
Do you do regular cardio?
You are on 2 IU GH daily?
How often do you eat?
Currently you are very pre-diabetic, high blood sugar is toxic to your kidneys, heart/vascular system, eyes/vision, etc