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Fear of Blood Tests? White Coat Syndrome?

One of our team members hates getting blood drawn, which is ironic given our line of work.

They also kept seeing higher fasting glucose than expected, even though the rest of their bloodwork didn’t really fit with a glucose problem.

So we tested a simple idea:

What if the lab visit itself was pushing glucose up?

They wore a continuous glucose monitor while driving to the lab and getting blood drawn. They were fully fasted. No food. Just the drive, the lab, and the blood draw.

Glucose still climbed.

This looks a lot like a stress response: cortisol, nerves, and a little white coat effect.

It’s a good reminder that a single fasting glucose number does not always tell the full story.

We’ll post the actual bloodwork result for glucose in a few days so we can compare.

Note: The image got flagged as "Made with AI", but this is actually a real screenshot from the CRM, we only used AI to add the text labels.

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$DEI - LabTestSuperstorecom Survey Fear of Bad News Is Keeping Americans from the Lab

https://t.co/S7qQRnXn9X Survey: Fear of Bad News Is Keeping Americans from the Lab PR Newswire Directional survey of U.S. adults finds that over 1 in 4… https://t.co/pMOnQWCIYv

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STD Testing Stigma May Be Leaving Some Americans in the Dark About Their Health

https://t.co/Su8ybf4qkk directional survey finds over 1 in 3 Americans have delayed STD testing despite believing they may have been at risk

Read the release: https://t.co/gzUMyBdZlY

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@afshineemrani How do you think these rate compared to PCSK9 inhibitors and GLP-1 as an intervention? Obviously cheaper, to start with!

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@Daisyyy_LS Well said Daisy! Recently I have been hearing @PeterDiamandis say the following, and it has really inspired me:

The world has only two types of people: consumers and creators. Be a creator!

I've never been a better time to create things!

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New https://t.co/eMIeU7s3S5 survey: 27.2% of U.S. adults said they delayed or avoided bloodwork because they feared what the results might show.

The needle gets attention, but the waiting may be where much of the anxiety lives.

Read the release: https://t.co/aLuZZ61CNi

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@chamath If you don’t mind saying publicly: are you on rapamycin? I’m freshly started (pulsing)

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For more inspiration search for what Dr. David Fajgenbaum et al are doing at @EveryCure — so cool: they are systematically, with the help of AI, going through all existing approved drugs to see how they can cure other diseases. Amazing story how he cured his own Castlemen disease that way.

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@theslowtell @bryan_johnson Exactly - old wisdom: https://t.co/efuMN2Kapk

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In case it helps someone. My experience:

What didn't help me:

Lenire: I don't really feel like it did anything for me other than give me hope during the darkest phase when I was not habituated at all to T. Expensive hope.

Lipo-Flavonoid: Of course I tried them. But I also dove into the research and I can't find much to support it, and it didn't work for me. The price is outrageous for what they're actually made of. I know some people feel they help and they get comfort from that, so no judgment. I might actually get a quote on having them formulated and putting them for sale near cost on Amazon, because the markup is kind of offensive.

What really helped (in order of what I feel made the biggest difference):

Treating undiagnosed mild OSA sleep apnea: This was the double whammy… it was ruining my sleep (thereby making T worse) and causing neurological damage (thereby making my hearing and T worse). If you haven’t had a sleep study, please consider it. BTW: I also found that when I visited high altitude cities (e.g. Denver, Mexico City) I would have altitude emergent central sleep apnea for first few nights, so my doctors prescribed Acetazolamide to take before ascending and it made major diff. BTW: In between sleep studies I wear a Wellue O2 Ring every night which gives you a very detailed view on your oxygen levels all night, and I can see if I'm having more than 5 disturbances per hour, which as an over-simplification is part of the sleep apnea diagnosis criteria https://t.co/Woe4v56JQB

Treating my undiagnosed TMJ: Although it doesn't seem to be the cause of my T, the mild pain made it worse and less tolerable. As a happy coincidence I was able to fix my sleep bruxism-related TMJ pain AND my sleep apnea with a single mouth appliance. I use the ProSomnus EVO and it is amazing (3d printed, custom fit). https://t.co/aUH5s3C2vR

Improving my sleep: After treating my sleep apnea, I cut out alcohol most nights of the week, and made sure I didn't have more than 2 drinks max on weekend nights. My deep sleep and REM improved considerably, and my HRV almost doubled according to my Whoop.

Supplements: Still fine-tuning my stack, but Magnesium Glycinate, GABA, Taurine, NAC and Glycine have made the biggest difference for me. I also take a half packet of electrolytes most days, full pack if I'm working out or doing sauna.

Sauna!!!: More recent addition but I think it's helping. The evidence for longevity is crazy good, so even if it doesn't help T directly I'm more than happy to reduce my chance of death by 40% as some studies claim! I try to do 4 sessions a week, dry sauna around 185F for 15 minutes.

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@Dalton_Walsh @NaturallyFTW SPF 30 blocks about 97% of UVB rays, and the remaining 3% is still enough for your vitamin D, so no need to risk skin cancer