Blood test for 6 months of Keto compared to earlier results
Yesterday I got back my new blood tests. Check out how my keto diet has affected my body.
For comparison I have the same figures from:
- March 2014 after 2 months of People Chow when I weighed 247
- January 2015 after 3 months of Keto when I weighed 226 (the full test results for that can be seen here)
- May 2015 after 6 months of Keto when I weighed 208. They only tested a few things this time (it was a “healthy at work” thing, hey it was free) so I’ve only included the ones that are in all 3 tests.
| 3/20/2014 | 1/6/2015 | 5/4/2015 | |
| Cholesterol | 142 | 135 | 161 |
| Triglycerides | 160 | 96 | 75 |
| HDL, Cholesterol | 43 | 45 | 49 |
| LDL (calculated) | 67 | 71 | 97 |
My triglycerides are WAY down compared to when I was eating carbs, more than anything else this is a very good sign. HDL is up but so is my LDL. This lab doesn’t do a thorough analysis of the LDL particle sizes so it’s difficult to say that number is bad or not.
Chris Bair is a technology and computer geek. He became involved in the nutritionally complete "future foods" movement in January 2014, originally with a conventional recipe and later switching to a high fat, low carb "ketogenic" variant on October 2014. In January 2015 he created the recipe for Keto Chow and released it without restriction for anyone to use, at the same time he began mixing the recipe up for people that wanted a finished product and has seen steady growth in the business every month since.
