Let’s explore “Blood-vessel health: genetics, metabolism, and measured risk”

Blood-vessel health involves blood pressure, lipids, glucose, smoking exposure, inflammation, and other factors.

How Dr. Purser combines inherited tendencies, current nutrient findings and conventional laboratory results without treating them as the same test.

Your lab may use its own range. Symptoms, medicines, and the types of white blood cells also matter.

Altitude, smoking, hydration, androgen therapy, and pregnancy may shift values.

Protein intake, hydration, catabolism, GI bleeding, and kidney function affect result.

Fasting and supplement abstention improve interpretability.

Ask your clinician to confirm with microscopy; exercise, menstruation, myoglobin, and hemolysis may interfere.

Specimen choice, timing, recent seafood/supplements, provoked vs unprovoked collection, and public-health thresholds matter.

PURSER WELLNESSBlood Sugar Support - What You Need to KnowFrom the reading room

According to The National Diabetes Statistics Report led by the Centre for Disease Control in 2020, more than 1 in 10 Americans currently have diabetes. Perhaps even more shocking are the numbers for prediabetes, a serious high blood sugar condition which they estimate affects 1 in 3… but over 80% are not aware they have it. Given that Prediabetes puts you at a high risk of developing Diabetes (as well as Heart Disease and Stroke) this all adds up to what is being called “the Diabetes Epidemic”. Thankfully, lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise play a big role in helping to bring balance

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PURSER WELLNESSIf you can’t convert homocysteine to glutathione bad things happen -inflammation and stroke risk. ⚠️A conversation with Dr. Purser

…ook around your family. Also causes strokes, heart attacks, blood clots. You'll have a high HSCP or high D-dimer or something like that that gives it away. That's what elevates your D- dimer and HSCP and even Wesr is a high homocyine level …