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Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Higher is not always better, but too low is most common. The marker where both ends raise your mortality IGF-1 is not a score. It is an instruction. Growth hormone leaves the pituitary, reaches the liver, and the liver answers by producing IGF-1. That IGF-1 then goes out to bone, to muscle, to the brain, to the heart, and fat cells as well ... and to every cell in your body with the same message: build, repair, divide, do not die yet. You can see why people assume...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. Six doors, one opened. The scanner existed the whole time. Six specialists saw my wife between 2008 and 2013. Five of them referred her onward. Not one of them ordered an image until the sixth. Here is the sequence. A Naturopathic Doctor recommended two tests to ask her doctor for:IGF-1 and growth hormone.Her gynecologist orders the only the first one but not the second. The IGF-1 comes back very high at 254. She cannot interpret it, and refers on. An endocrinologist...
Hey Reader, Dr Karl here. What I think is happening, and what I cannot prove.I ruled things out before I landed anywhere. Was her blood sugar getting worse? No. Glucose fell 16 points over the four years and direct monitoring agreed. Was she iron deficient, which genuinely does distort A1c? No. Serum iron fell from 105 to 85, but ferritin nearly doubled, 160 to 288. That is not depletion. Was it a lipid shift? No. HDL went 58, 63, 76, 64. It wandered and came back. It cannot explain a...