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I have been meaning to post this for awhile, but have been so busy with work and traveling that I haven't been on the board as much.
Back in January 2018 during my yearly physical for work, my cholesterol came back at a total of 214. I will see if I can find a copy of that lab to post later...for some reason I don't have it in my blood work folder on my external hard drive. It freaked me out pretty bad as I had never seen it that high. Both my parents have high cholesterol and are on medicine for it.
At that point I started taking GW. I get that and my MK from Mike, and I started out on 20mg a day. When I went to my doctor on 3/12/2018 (shown below) as the file name shows up top, my total cholesterol was 187. It was a nice drop, but I didn't put to much into it as it was a different doctor and a different lab than what my work uses. I figured that I was heading in the right path and I dropped off to 10mg a day of the GW and have been on that dose since.
On 6/21/2018, we had our plant health nurse in to do blood-work. This was kind of last minute (I didn't know she was coming) and took me off guard as I was in the middle of a cycle of around 100mg Test, 200mg of NPP, and 200mg of Primo. I figured that at best it would stay the same...at worst I might lose a little ground.
When I got my results back, I was astonished. My total came back at 136.
Now all my blood-work is done under the same conditions. I never fast and I have always typically been to the gym and already had a few meals in me when I get blood drawn. I have always thought when I get labs, let's do them under my normal conditions.
The only thing that was different was that I had started the GW and stayed on it, and I had increased my cardio to 20 minutes HIT 3X a week. Before I was doing 10 minutes 2X a week...but mainly just to enhance my appetite so that I could eat more.
Now my HDL did decrease by a few points, and I attribute that to the supplements I was using. Normally I usually sit at 50+ when it comes to HDL #'s, but that is when I am on nothing but TRT doses and eating really clean. It has always rebounded pretty fast. In fact I used to get "flagged" for
having high HDL numbers. They have been in the 70's when I was younger.
But I have another physical coming up soon, and I get to see where I am at. Also, I got my dad on GW as well to see if we could repeat the results with him. This will be a good test as he doesn't exercise and he is due for blood-work as well in another month or so....so we will see where things are.
So in short...my take is that GW really does work for lowering total and LDL numbers. It doesn't increase HDL numbers, but I have never seen anyone claim that it did. But I for one will continue to take it as long as I can.
Back in January 2018 during my yearly physical for work, my cholesterol came back at a total of 214. I will see if I can find a copy of that lab to post later...for some reason I don't have it in my blood work folder on my external hard drive. It freaked me out pretty bad as I had never seen it that high. Both my parents have high cholesterol and are on medicine for it.
At that point I started taking GW. I get that and my MK from Mike, and I started out on 20mg a day. When I went to my doctor on 3/12/2018 (shown below) as the file name shows up top, my total cholesterol was 187. It was a nice drop, but I didn't put to much into it as it was a different doctor and a different lab than what my work uses. I figured that I was heading in the right path and I dropped off to 10mg a day of the GW and have been on that dose since.
On 6/21/2018, we had our plant health nurse in to do blood-work. This was kind of last minute (I didn't know she was coming) and took me off guard as I was in the middle of a cycle of around 100mg Test, 200mg of NPP, and 200mg of Primo. I figured that at best it would stay the same...at worst I might lose a little ground.
When I got my results back, I was astonished. My total came back at 136.
Now all my blood-work is done under the same conditions. I never fast and I have always typically been to the gym and already had a few meals in me when I get blood drawn. I have always thought when I get labs, let's do them under my normal conditions.
The only thing that was different was that I had started the GW and stayed on it, and I had increased my cardio to 20 minutes HIT 3X a week. Before I was doing 10 minutes 2X a week...but mainly just to enhance my appetite so that I could eat more.
Now my HDL did decrease by a few points, and I attribute that to the supplements I was using. Normally I usually sit at 50+ when it comes to HDL #'s, but that is when I am on nothing but TRT doses and eating really clean. It has always rebounded pretty fast. In fact I used to get "flagged" for
having high HDL numbers. They have been in the 70's when I was younger.
But I have another physical coming up soon, and I get to see where I am at. Also, I got my dad on GW as well to see if we could repeat the results with him. This will be a good test as he doesn't exercise and he is due for blood-work as well in another month or so....so we will see where things are.
So in short...my take is that GW really does work for lowering total and LDL numbers. It doesn't increase HDL numbers, but I have never seen anyone claim that it did. But I for one will continue to take it as long as I can.