I'm Recruiting Volunteers for a COVID Spike Protein Substack Study Plus Group Fasting Challenges

I mean, what's not to love? First you get poked, then you don't eat for days. But it's all in the service of defeating the nasty COVID spike protein. Are you game?

In today’s post:

1. The Spike Protein is more harmful than I knew possible: 100% of the patients at Pierre Kory’s Leading Edge Clinic Have Microclots

2. I took the COVID antibodies test on Thursday and my results are scary high: 1,986

3. What does the antibody test tell us about the spike protein?

4. My radical idea: I want to do a Substack Study. (Is that a thing? It is now.) I’m looking for readers to volunteer to anonymously give their spike antibody data. I will collect and publish. Directions below.

5. I’m going to be leading a number of fasting challenges: Fasting to End the Spike (FES, or something like that, open to more catchy suggestions)

6. Here’s the schedule of upcoming group fasting challenges

7. A slightly-revised supplement protocol and which ones I’m doing.

8. I describe some symptoms I’m having that may or may not be related to high spike protein levels (there’s no way to know for sure) but I just want to give you data even if it’s open to interpretation.

9. Some additional lab tests I had drawn on Monday that measure inflammation markers that others can consider. (Optional for the study).

   

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1. The Spike Protein is more harmful than I thought possible: 100% of the patients at The Leading Edge Clinic Have Microclots

If you’re not a paid subscriber, you missed my big announcement on Friday’s Substack Live. A retired physician, Dr. Robert Yoho, with an excellent stack called Surviving Healthcare, read my January 29th post COVID Spike Protein Disease: What It Is and How to Recover and left a comment telling me that he interviewed Scott Marsland from the Leading Edge Clinic (that specializes in spike protein disease) and that I had to listen to the interview. I listened to the interview and about lost my mind.

I thought I was up on most things COVID, long COVID, vax injuries, etc…but I was not.

When you sign up to be a patient at The Leading Edge Clinic, they have your bloodwork sent to a specialist down in Birmingham Alabama, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, the “foremost U.S. Expert on microclotting.” Dr. Vaughn uses a special stain and then examines the blood under an electron microscope. He gives it a microclotting grade from 0 to 4. A score of 0 means normal and 4 is the most severe clotting disorder.

Before COVID, he would occasionally see level 1 microclots if someone had a severe chronic disease. Now he regularly sees 3.5 and 4.

Furthermore, as I said in the intro: 100% of the blood samples sent to Dr. Vaughn from The Leading Edge Clinic have some degree of microclots.

You might need to read that sentence again.

A few points of clarification:

• These blood samples are from vaccinated and unvaccinated people. I don’t know what percentage of the patients are vaccinated.

• These blood samples obviously don’t represent a random sampling of the US population. It costs $2,350 to sign up for the clinic, so the only patients who are willing to pay that amount likely have moderate to severe symptoms. (I doubt most insurance companies cover the cost).

Nevertheless, the fact that every patient has microclots caught me by surprise.

From the interview:

The spike protein targets the hippocampal area of the brain and turns off memory, joi de vivre [joy in life], motivation, and other high-level functions. It causes micro-clotting, and we have a laboratory test for that.

Dr. Jordan Vaughn, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is the foremost United States expert on microclotting. He says the difference between microclotting and normal clotting is that normal clots have enzymes that break them down after serving their purpose. Microclots have amyloid, a very persistent denatured protein, and they are missing most of the enzymes required to break down clots.

We send blood samples to his lab in Alabama, and Jordan uses a stain to look at them under an electron microscope. He grades the microclots from 0 to 4. If someone has had several boosters, they typically have a 3, 3.5, or 4. Micro-clotting existed before the pandemic. People with a chronic disease were positive; we know that from banked blood. But now, we see very high levels because of the spike protein, which provokes this, especially in the vaccinated. Ivermectin blocks the impact of spike on red blood cells, platelets, and the endothelial cells that line blood vessels.

I heartily encourage you to listen to the interview in its entirety here. At this time, I am not going to reiterate everything in the interview except to pull a few pertinent quotes:

Exhibit A:

The spike protein is a pathogen, whether it's from having acute COVID or whether it's from the shots.

It is one of the most toxic proteins ever introduced into humans. 😱

The list of diseases provoked by it is longer than my arm.

Exhibit B:

About 10% of their vaccinated patients have spike protein antibodies that are off the charts, meaning over 25,000 which is as high as the test goes. This 25,000+ number has also been seen in some unvaccinated patients.

Here’s a story Scott Marsland tells about three unvaccinated people with antibody levels over 25,000:

This is part of how we came to understand shedding. I had three unvaccinated patients with spike antibody levels of less than a thousand. In October 2023, a new booster came out. Each of them went into the hospital for same-day surgery. When we rechecked their spike antibody level a month later, all were higher than 25,000.

A reader, Hillary Anderson, commented about something similar here:

2. I took the COVID antibodies test on Thursday (Feb. 6) and my results are 1,986 (very high!)

Hillary Anderson above commented that anyone can order their own COVID antibody test through LabCorp On Demand by clicking this link (thanks Hillary). After paying for the test, just walk into any LabCorp and get blood drawn. (Step-by-step directions on how to order your own lab work are in this post.)

I ordered the test Thursday afternoon (Feb. 6). The blood draw would have taken me about 2 minutes except that I spent 10 minutes talking to the lab technician about spike protein disease. (Hey, she asked me why I was getting the test, and no one else was in line after me.)

If you live in a big city, you may want to make an online appointment which takes mere seconds through LabCorp’s website. (When I lived in Colorado Springs, I would always make an appointment and skip in front of 20 walk-ins). Locals, we can’t make online appointments. See my step-by-step post linked above on how to find our hidden LabCorp that’s not on Google Maps or LabCorp’s website.

Then I got my results, surprisingly, Friday afternoon (Feb. 7). It turns out that I too have very high COVID antibodies. 1,986 to be exact.

3. The obvious question is: What does the COVID antibody test tell us?

Here’s what Scott Marsland says in this post:

How accurate is the antibody test for the amount of spike protein you have?

For about two years, we've been using the spike antibody test as a proxy, an imperfect measure of spike burden. Until there is a test to measure spike directly, we use this test. It is like using a mirror to look for the vampire behind you. When we initiate therapies that break down spike, the antibody level generally decreases.

As we speak, a website is being built that will allow you to sign up for a spike protein urine test. www.spikeproteintest.com (not live yet). For now, the antibody test is all we have.

In my case, the antibodies may not mean I have spike protein disease because I was very sick from January 4-21, possibly with COVID version 17.1.2 (or whatever Greek letter we’re on now).

If it was COVID, it makes sense that my antibodies are high. It is more concerning in someone who persists in having high antibodies without recent infections. This means that the body is reacting to a high spike protein burden it can’t clear, as in the unvaccinated patients whose antibodies were over 25,000 after visiting the hospital. We have to ask ourselves why the body is making so many antibodies.

For my part, I don’t much care why I have spike protein, whether from a recent infection or from crossing paths with Big Foot, I want that spike protein gone forever from my life.

A picture just flashed into my mind from Lord of the Rings when Aragorn says to Frodo about the ring:

And then he says, “Well, you’re not frightened nearly enough.” It was not Aragorn’s intention to scare the hobbits silly but to make them aware of the peril so they could take appropriate precautions.

(Aside: The glory of the book, which is so much better than the movies that they are hardly worth comparing, is that Tolkien can stare the deepest darkness in the face and still write an uplifting, encouraging story. So much cheap, sappy fiction attempts to be uplifting by ignoring or downplaying anything hard and just focusing on the sentimental. Therefore, it’s not truly uplifting because it doesn’t demonstrate how to fight evil in the world we live in. I love this quote by G. K. Chesterton that says, "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.")

So here’s what I want to tell every single one of my readers: it’s scary…but…

We are going to win.

Whether you are skeptical of all this, only mildly concerned, or are currently wrapping your entire body in aluminum foil, I have a word for you:

We Will Win!

I have no real way of knowing whether I have those microclots in my blood or not. (I’m not signing up for the $2.3K clinic right now).

But let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, a worst-case scenario. Let’s assume that most of us have microclots in our blood from residual spike protein that our body just can’t break down.

You know what???

We gonna win anyway.

If all the worst speculations are true, that our tax money funded gain of function research that created a virus with the most deadly protein known to man that creates microclots rarely seen before…Well, then game on.

And how are we going to win? Read on.

So what if they used the most sophisticated lab equipment in the history of the world, they found scientists with heads so big they needed to install extra wide doors, they used only triple postdocs whose assistants were also postdocs, they used more money than the Pentagon lost the day before 9-11 (which is 2.3 trillion ICYMI) all to create a deadly virus with the world’s most dangerous spike protein—

But we are going to beat it by fasting.

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

So here’s what I want to do.

4. My Radical Idea: A Substack Study—First of Its Kind

I want to do an unofficial study, and then publish the results on Substack. I currently have about 6,500 subscribers. If half of you agree to take a test that will cost you only $69 (doctors orders are not required), I could aggregate data on over 3,000 people! Now that’s what I call a study. Some of these studies I read on PubMed use 10 or 20 people.

If you are willing to participate, here’s what you’ll do. Take the spike protein antibody test plus the d-dimer for clot test (directions in this post—it’s so easy!) and then private message me the following info:

1. How high your antibodies are

2. D-dimer levels. See testing section 9, for an explanation and how to get it.

3. COVID vaxxed or not vaxxed, and if vaxxed give # of shots

4. How long since your last flu-like infection

5. What protocols do you plan to start using or are using. Please be as specific as possible. Don’t just say, “Nattokinase and fasting.” Say: “Nattokinase 200 mg twice per day plus fasting for 18 hours every day plus joining the longer group fasts.”

6. Any major health problems you are experiencing and when they started

7. If you know you have an MTHFR genetic variant, and whether you are homozygous or heterozygous. MTHFR can predispose you to blood clots per this article by Peter McCullough. For example, I am homozygous (have both my genes mutated) for c677T, the more severe of the two. The other commonly tested one is c1296T.

I will then assign you a number to refer to you anonymously in later posts. (i.e. reader #8 has spike antibodies of 2,000, 2 shots, flu-like symptoms 8 months ago, just developed anxiety).

Alternatively, you have the option of posting your data as a public comment. The advantage of this is that people can have a conversation in the comments on what they’re experiencing. If it’s all anonymous, someone with similar experiences will not be able to have a back-and-forth with you. So I’ll leave this to your discretion.

I’m obviously sharing all my data publicly because I believe that exposure is one of the best ways we can bring down this problem—expose the darkness to the light.

With enough data, we might be able to find patterns. I think the greatest thing about this experiment is that perhaps we could see the total spike burden of this reader population greatly decrease over time. This reminds me of when I used to attend Weight Watcher meetings (BTW intermittent fasting is so much better—glad I never have to go back to WW) and they used to announce the collective amount of weight all of us in the room had lost: “Ladies, we lost a total of 21.2 lbs this week.” And we’d all clap.

What if we could, as a group, lose tens of thousands of spike proteins? I’m in.

Measuring a change in our collective spike antibody load will require retesting and forking over another $69 at some point. But if you do the first test, there will be no pressure to keep testing. You are not making a commitment. I’m guessing that if someone has antibodies near zero and no symptoms, they may not feel the need to retest. No problem. Even the initial data will be helpful.

All data has the potential to be helpful even when we don’t know exactly what to make of it.

(Crowdsourcing: I’m notoriously bad at learning/using software of all kinds. So organizing this info will be a challenge for me. Does anyone brainy have a “data organization for dummies” tip? I am mildly versed in Excel so was planning on just dumping all this into a monstrously-conceived Excel Spreadsheet that would give some techy-types nightmares to look at. Or is Excel so 1990? Please advise.)

Lastly, I need you to keep a health journal.

Initially, you do not need to send me any info except what I listed above. But keep records for yourself to share later if relevant. Write down anything that you are experiencing. It could be a sore knee, or that you dropped your keys into the toilet instead of your purse, and then you called your cat by the name of your 3rd grade teacher (unless you always do that).

If you rarely used to do odd things and now it’s every 5 minutes, write that down. Neckaches, backaches, brittle fingernails, whatever you can think of. Of course, it’s not necessarily all related to the spike protein. Right now you are simply gathering data.

Also track things like sleep, sunlight, red light therapy, medications and supplements, changes in diet, (as in “ate at Taco Bell and had diarrhea,” BTW, that’s a You problem), women: note changes in your cycle please (there are many reports of this floating around since COVID).

5. Fasting to End the Spike: Spike Protein Fasting Challenges

Now, this is where it gets fun—if you think going without food is fun, that is.

Actually, I do think fasting is fun. It’s fun because going without food means that my highly intelligent body will use the fast as an opportunity to make war against the most dangerous protein ever waged against humans, so bring it.

Here’s what Dr. Yoho said about how effective the longer fasts have been at the Leading Edge Clinic:

Fasting is the most effective way to break down spike. [Hear, hear!] Scott recommends 72 hours twice a month, and water is permitted. He says drinking bone broth while fasting makes it more tolerable, and fats such as olive, coconut oil, and butter can be consumed without breaking the fasting ketosis. [Don’t even think about it]. He told me, “One of my patients used to have a spike antibody level above 25,000 after two mRNA vaccines. He has been religious about doing 72-hour fasts twice a month, and we watched him come down out of the clouds to 18,000 to 10,000, and finally to under 4,000 over about a year.”

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that we clean fast around here for best results, and complete digestive rest. This means no broth, mints, zero calorie flavors (La Croix), cream/milk in coffee—even herbal teas can trigger insulin.

The clean fast rules are water, (can be sparkling if unflavored), black coffee, and black tea if unflavored. Only.

Here is my Clean Fast Manifesto: Why Should I Clean Fast, if you need all the juicy inside deets on how flavors release insulin, etc.

But here’s the deal. We all do better when we do things in groups.

So, I want to start some Spike Protein Fasting Challenges. (SPFC, not very catchy, is it?)

Now, anyone can join these fasting challenges for any reason. It doesn’t have to be because you have high levels of spike protein.

But I want to call them Spike Challenges because I want to remind people that we are at war with bioweapons, and we are going to win, not with all the prowess of modern technology, but we’re going to win by employing the most basic healing strategy that’s been in existence since the dawn of time.

We’re going to fast. And I want to do it with my peeps. In a group.

So here’s what I’m thinking.

I want to run a 36-hour fast every Monday. We will start Sunday evening and fast until Tuesday morning. If you’re brand new to fasting, you need to read the Three Week Challenge and do that first. If you’ve been fasting for a while, it’s time to soldier up and do a 36. Your health might depend on it.

Then once a month, I’m going to lead a 72-hour fast. The first one will be in March because I want to give everyone time to nail the 36-hour twice before we tackle the big guns.

During these fasts, I’m going to offer group coaching to paid subscribers through the Substack Chat feature. Chat is available on both the Substack app and if you go to the Substack main page by clicking on the title of this post in your email. I’ll send out more detailed instructions as we get closer.

The point of the paid subscriber group chat is that people can ask me questions about fasting and everyone in the group can read the answer. During fasts, I’ll try to respond to questions within an hour. I will also share tips and motivation throughout the day.

Depending on how you have your Substack notifications set up, this does not have to be annoying like text message group chats are. It can be there when you need it but now dinging you all day long.

The idea is that if you feel like quitting the fast, you log onto the group chat, and you see a meme of me saying

I’d also like to do a Substack Live each Monday morning for paid subscribers while we do the 36-hour fast. In the Live, I’ll take questions and outline some common concerns about extended fasting.

This will be you doing your first 36-hour fast:

6. The Fasting Schedule I Have Planned

Fast #1: Sunday evening February 16th we will start our first 36-hour group fast.

Note: You have some flexibility on what time to start fasting on Sunday evening but in general, 7 pm is a good time to aim for. We will fast until Tuesday morning. Again, there is flexibility on when you break but aim for 36 hours. If you stopped eating at 7 pm on Sunday, you can eat at 7 am Tuesday. Some people like to push the fast to 11 am to make it a 40-hour fast but this is a more advanced technique.

Monday, Feb 17th at 9 am Pacific/noon Eastern, during our first 36, I will have a Substack Live office hours for paid subscribers to discuss all things extended fasting. I can answer questions on other topics if there’s time but my main focus will be on tips for being successful on a 36-hour fast.

Paid subscriber group chat will be running from Sunday evening until Tuesday morning where I’ll look for questions and try to answer in an hour as well as send out tips and basically tell you to suck it up buttercup. You’ll need it.

Fast #2: Sunday evening February 23rd-Tuesday Feb 25: exact same plan as #1.

Fast #3: Sunday, March 2nd-Wednesday March 5th, The 72-hour mother of fasts

We will be declaring total war on the evil COVID spike protein: mark your calendars right now. Go. Write it down. We are doing a 72-hour fast.

In upcoming posts, I will wax ineloquent about all the stupendous benefits of the 72-hour and how they make Elon Musk’s rocket-catching device seem like a kindergartener’s science fair project in comparison to all the amazing things that go on in the human body during a 72-hour fast. Pshaw, rocket science ain’t nothing compared to fasting science. 🤓

We will kick off the 72-hour fast with a Substack Live Monday morning, March 2nd, and I’ll outline how you’re going to make it through the next two and a half days. The group chat telling you to stop whining, there are starving kids in Africa, and go drink some water (and add salt) will run for the full three days.

7. My Spike Supplement Protocol

In my previous COVID post, I walked through the IMA’s (formerly FLCCC) guide on how to recover from the spike. Each of us needs to read through that guide and decide which interventions make the most sense.

Here are the ones I started:

Daily fasting for 18 hours, a 36-hour each week including one I just finished today

Ivermectin 24 mg/day mixed with 1 Tablespoon olive oil for absorption, taken with a meal. Skipped during my 36-hour fast.

400 mg nattokinase, divided into two 200 mg doses (1/8 tsp of the linked powder), taken on an empty stomach. Continued during my 36-hour fast.

TruBifidoPro for increasing bifido gut bacteria, 1/day. Also daily homemade kefir. Took to break my fast.

New: not mentioned in the last post. I bought a special kind of NAC called augmented NAC here.

From Scott Marsland:

[This NAC] comes from ZeroSpike.org, a renegade nonprofit with only ten people in Italy. The way they augment the NAC is proprietary, but it breaks the disulfide bond between spike and ACE2 receptors. 99.8% of the spike that impacts it denatures and breaks down into almost 100 pieces that the body can then metabolize and eliminate in the urine.

Other things I’m doing for general immune function: cod liver oil with butter oil, liposomal vitamin C, magnesium glycinate

I’m also doing red light therapy daily. I have this red light. I’m getting morning sunlight in my eyes on most days (but this morning it was literally 9 degrees and I wimped out).

8. Some Things I’m Experiencing:

There’s absolutely no way one could know whether or not what I’m experiencing would have still happened had the COVID virus never been introduced into the world.

So I’m simply going to describe what I am noticing without implying that I know it’s necessarily from the COVID spike. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. This is why we need large aggregates of data—so we can notice patterns.

For the last month, since my possible severe COVID infection, I’ve had pain that starts in the back of my neck and radiates down my shoulders and my spine. My husband was a real sport giving me back and neck massages but the pain continues.

I didn’t think too much about it until a week and a half ago my right arm started falling asleep at night. It’s been happening all night long, no matter what position I lie in, even on my back. Then it started to happen during the day while I was driving, blow drying my hair, etc.

So on February 4, I went to a chiropractor I trust and told him about my arm falling asleep and he said I probably have a pinched nerve in my neck, and he’d get me all fixed up. Note: he really helped me after I was rear-ended 5 years ago, the only other time in my life I’ve had ongoing neck pain. But after I was rear-ended, I never had my arms falling asleep.

But even though he’s helped me in the past, this time I am not getting any better since my chiropractor appointment last week, and my arm is still falling asleep all night long. I’ve been taking notes on it. Last night I woke up at 4:30 and could not feel my fingers. I’m noticing some tingling in my left arm a little now as well. So I made an appointment with another chiropractor in town that a lot of people use but he can’t see me until next week.

After I got my test results on Friday, it occurred to me for the first time that this neck pain could be related to a high spike protein load causing rampant inflammation. Who knows. Just a thought I had.

So on Friday, I started my daily stack of 24 mg of ivermectin with olive oil (for absorption), 600 mg of regular NAC (the augmented hasn’t come yet, I live in the boonies), 200 mg of nattokinase in the morning and 200 mg in the evening.

Then I did deep tissue red light therapy with my red light 6 inches from my back and neck for 15 minutes (the max time for this distance). I have also been putting pure magnesium oil on my neck followed by DMSO which pulls the magnesium into the bloodstream (note: only use 100% pure magnesium oil with DMSO, not magnesium lotion which has all kinds of other ingredients that should not enter the bloodstream!).

I’m also taking Bifido probiotics, eating kefir, and did a 36-hour water fast from Sunday night that I ended at 11 am Tuesday morning. (I stopped all supplements for the fast except nattokinase and magnesium.)

After my spike antibody results, I got really curious about my inflammation levels. So I went onto Marek Health and ordered a bunch of lab tests. I had my labs drawn Monday (2-10) and I was hoping I’d have my results by now but I don’t. (Note: Marek Health is much cheaper for ordering your own labs without a doctor visit than Lab Corp on Demand. However, Marek doesn’t offer the antibody test).

9. Tests I had drawn Monday morning (Feb. 10) with links:

A) D-dimer $55

The next most important lab test you can get after the antibody because it tests for blood clot breakdown.

Note: this is an edit to the original email that went out.

To make life extra complicated, LabCorp on Demand doesn’t offer it. So here’s the scoop. You can only order the antibody test through LabCorp on Demand and the d-dimer only through Marek. If someone knows of one site where one can order both labs, please leave a comment. It’s really not that big of a deal, it just means a few extra minutes on the Internet.

D-dimer is a protein fragment that results from the breakdown of a blood clot (fibrinolysis). It is measured in the blood to assess whether significant clot formation and breakdown is occurring in the body.

A d-dimer test can help diagnose or rule out conditions related to abnormal clotting, such as:

• Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – Blood clots in the deep veins, usually in the legs

• Pulmonary embolism (PE) – A clot that travels to the lungs

• Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) – A serious disorder causing excessive clotting and bleeding

• Stroke – In some cases, it may be used as part of stroke evaluation

• COVID-19 complications – Elevated D-dimer levels have been associated with severe cases

A normal or low D-dimer level suggests that significant clotting is unlikely, while a high D-dimer level indicates that clot breakdown is occurring, though it does not pinpoint the cause (which could be from clotting disorders, recent surgery, trauma, infection, inflammation, or other conditions).

B) HsCRP $23

This stands for high sensitivity C reactive protein. CRP is an inflammatory protein. High sensitivity CRP is much better for tracking chronic inflammation whereas the regular CRP test is better for measuring acute inflammation such as after a surgery or injury. I’m more interested in HsCRP for my purposes.

C) Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR)$10

Short explanation: the more inflamed the body is, the quicker the red blood cells fall to the bottom.

The long answer is that during inflammation, the liver produces more fibrinogen, C-reactive protein (CRP), and other acute-phase reactants. These proteins cause red blood cells to become sticky and form rouleaux (stacks of RBCs resembling a roll of coins). Rouleaux formation increases the weight and density of RBC clusters, causing them to fall faster under gravity. Furthermore, normally, red blood cells repel each other because they carry a negative charge (the shop talk for this is “zeta potential”). Inflammation-related proteins (e.g., fibrinogen and globulins) neutralize this charge, reducing repulsion and promoting rouleaux formation. This test might give me some indication of whether or not have microclots—I think. I need to do more reading about this.

D) Fibrinogen Factor 1 activity $36

An acute-phase protein that increases during inflammation and infection. Elevated levels may indicate systemic inflammation.

E) Serum Ferritin $10

An iron-storage protein that can be elevated in chronic inflammation

F) Complete Blood Count CBC $10:

In the CBC, I’m paying special attention to:

• White Blood Cell (WBC) Count

• Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR): A marker of systemic inflammation.

• Platelet Count and Mean Platelet Volume (MPV): Platelets are involved in inflammation and clotting. MPV can be elevated in inflammatory disorders.

G) Comprehensive Metabolic Panel $10

I’m paying attention to Albumin as lower levels can indicate chronic inflammation and poor nutritional status

While I was already getting blood drawn, I also did my A1C, fasting insulin, red blood cell magnesium, and vitamin D. It was a lot of pokes. Yippee. Science.

There are two more tests that measure inflammation that I chose not to do because of cost but you could order them if you can get it covered by insurance or money is not an obstacle:

Interleukin-6 or IL-6 $185: Another cytokine similar to CRP involved in the inflammatory response that is often elevated in chronic inflammatory diseases and infections.

Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-α) $94: A pro-inflammatory cytokine that is involved in immune system activation. It is elevated in autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammatory conditions.

I’ll go over my results and what they mean in another post. I just wanted you to list out the suggestions in case other uber-nerds want to give 10 vials of blood for the fun of it.

This was a long post. Thanks for sticking with me. I hope to hear from many of you. In some ways, I feel like everything I’ve studied for the last two years, particularly about fasting, has prepared me for this critical moment.

Fast on,

Leslie

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