A comprehensive blood work panel should also include a micronutrient panel, IGF-1, leptin, advanced lipid markers, a toxic metals panel, fructosamine, statin C-peptide, and coenzyme Q10.

“I also get the following labs a micronutrient panel which consists of plasma serum and red blood cell micronutrients for a variety of things from manganese molybdenum selenium etc I'd like to see an IG f1 Stephen Gundry and others have been concerned about igf-1 rising on carnivore diets but that is simply not the case probably because there's concurrent ketosis IC igf-1 levels as I talked about in this podcast that are generally about the average or even part of a standard deviation below the average so it's clear that we are not over stimulating our igf-1 on this type of a diet I like leptin as a measure I like essentially to also add the more sophisticated measures of lipids which we talked about in this podcast these are sometimes the plant sterols I toss her all-camp ester all cholesterol does master all is also helpful and arginine asymmetric dimethyl arginine semester dimethyl arginine that is all interesting and helps us really interpret a lipid panel well a toxic metals panel in the saram is fine I believe to start is useful fructosamine is another measure of glucose so statin si si peptide and the coenzyme q-10 level round out that list with a few others that you can add from time to time”