Blood tests - (need help)

[Agent]

Liver values are often elevated where high protein diets are in play

Correct, ALT and AST are often raised in bodybuilders as they increase as a result of muscle breakdown. The same tests done after a week away from the gym will most times bring them back into normal range, which should show it's nothing sinister. I believe it's when GGT is also raised that there's more likely to be a problem.

Found this online -

"Muscular exercise can cause highly pathological liver function tests in healthy men

Jonas Pettersson, Ulf Hindorf, Paula Persson, Thomas Bengtsson, Ulf Malmqvist,1 Viktoria Werkström,1 and Mats Ekelund2

AstraZeneca R&D Lund, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Mölndal, Sweden

1Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Mölndal, Sweden

2AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Mölndal, Sweden

Correspondence Ulf Hindorf, Medical Science, AstraZeneca R&D Lund, SE-221 87 Lund, Sweden. Tel: + 46 4633 7143 Fax: + 46 4633 7576 E-mail: ulf.hindorf@med.lu.se

Received April 13, 2007; Accepted May 31, 2007.

Aim

To investigate the effect of intensive muscular exercise (weightlifting) on clinical chemistry parameters reflecting liver function in healthy men.

Methods

Fifteen healthy men, used to moderate physical activity not including weightlifting, performed an 1 h long weightlifting programme. Blood was sampled for clinical chemistry parameters [aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), lactate dehydrogenase (LD), gamma-glutamyl transferase (γGT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), bilirubin, creatine kinase (CK) and myoglobin] at repeated intervals during 7 days postexercise and at a follow-up examination 10–12 days postexercise.

Results

Five out of eight studied clinical chemistry parameters (AST, ALT, LD, CK and myoglobin) increased significantly after exercise (P < 0.01) and remained increased for at least 7 days postexercise. Bilirubin, γGT and ALP remained within the normal range.

Conclusion

The liver function parameters, AST and ALT, were significantly increased for at least 7 days after the exercise. In addition, LD and, in particular, CK and myoglobin showed highly elevated levels. These findings highlight the importance of imposing restrictions on weightlifting prior to and during clinical studies. Intensive muscular exercise, e.g. weightlifting, should also be considered as a cause of asymptomatic elevations of liver function tests in daily clinical practice. "

[EMC]

thanks agent, that was great read.

[cantygirl]

Hope you get the answers you need from the doc. I don't know anything about using, however I may get shot down in flames here when I state the obvious, but:-

1. CNS recovery (sounds like its shot to pieces)

[EMC]

blood test results (sampled last thursday)

testosterone total: 14.8 nmol/l (8.7-29.0)

free testosterone: 336 pmol/l (198-619)

SHBG: 23nmol/l (13-71)

waiting on IGF

starting to experience things like morning wood, more pimples, mood stability, better focus/thinking and overall better well being. still dont feel quite there and is apparent from my efforts in the gym but from the increase of the results with the change in diet and reduction in bodyfat it can only get better