Al and Dean's recent lab tests

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Hi All, I finally tabulated from the spreadsheet the lab test results

provided thus far recently, which were also done for Dean.

My comments are:

1. I lost a much greater % of my weight than Dean and a number of results

are consistent with what I understand of CR.

2. The waist/hip ratio does not reflect the smaller % different in our %

trunk fat. I have lost height and my abdomen is swollen. Dean has lower

body fat than I do. Maybe this is due to my greater fatty fish intake.

3. I have no arm and leg fat data. Luigi is an experimenter at heart as is

Dr. Holloszy who directs overall studies. Many tests were revised for the

first time when I had them done, and Luigi continued this in this tradition

with Dean, apparently. It looks to me as though Dean is top heavy in fat

distribution. In jest and friend-to-friend, I do not speculate on his

brain, though.

4. Dean has twice the increase above the recommended HDL level that I did.

His other fats also are higher and our ratios are in my mind both good. Dean

seems to have a more expensive health-conscious diet. His food is more

optimized for nutrition, I think. My diet has a high % of total fat intake

from the corn oil intrinsic to popcorn. The fish may counter-balance this.

Overall for our lipids, although they are not as good as some have reported

on our list, and I speculate from their test data and diets that the

difference could be genetic.

5. The oral glucose tolerance tests have been discussed before.

6. The blood cell counts seem to be consistent with 1. above. The anemia

may be consistent with this.

7. Dean has a high vitamin B12 level. I do not supplement it.

8. Other markers have been discussed previously.

9. Please offer all comments and recommendations of which you may think.

Test Dean Al Ref

Nov 2002 18,19 7,8 NA

Age (y) 41 55 NA

# loss (%) 23 39 ~-20

Waist/hip 0.89 0.83

%Body fat 6.8 8.3

%Trunk fat 5.0 5.3

%Larm fat 10.5

%Rarm 10.5

%Lleg 6.3

%Rleg 4.8

SBP 99 83 <140

DBP 60 59 <80

T-Chol 136 103 <200

LDL 70 48 <129

HDL 56 48 >40

Trigly 54 35 <150

T-Chol/HDL 2.4 2.1 <5

Time (h) Glucose (mg/dL)

0 (fasting) 78 68.5

0.5 165 126

1.0 252 84.4

1.5 230 91.7

2.0 199 119

Hct 35.3 32 40.7-50.3

Hb 12.3 11 13.8-17.2

MCV 110 94.5 80-97.6

MCH 38.5 32 26.7-32

MCHC 34.8 34.3 32.7-35.5

WBC 3.1 1.3 3.8-9.8

Neutr 1.9 0.7 1.8-6.6

Lymph 1.0 0.5 1.2-3.3

Mono 0.2 0.2 0.2-1.2

Plt 232 135 140-440

Ferritin 22.9 24-336

B12 2000 343 107-657

Creatinine 0.8 0.6 0.7-1.5

BUN 18 15 8.0-25

Protein 6.8 6.1 6.6-8.5

Albumin 4.3 3.4 3.6-5.0

Bilirubin 0.6 0.6 0.3-1.1

Na 140 124 135-145

K 4.0 4.3 3.3-4.9

Cl 100 92 97-110

Anion gap 13 10

CO2 22 27 22-32

Ca 9.2 8 8.6-10.3

Urine pH 7.0 7.5

BMD 1.13 0.928

L2-4Z -1.23 -3.57

Z% 88 63

HipZ -3.1 -2.37

Z% 95 63

NeckZ 0.15 -1.97

Z% 102 67

TrocZ 0.29 -1.77

Z% 105 70

Max HR/min 166 131

Str.vol. (ml) 92 82

Max SBP 130

Max DBP 80

VO2Max (ml/kg/min)

43.4 15.2

METS 12.4 4.4

Card Output, l/min 15.3 10.8

EE/+/-SD 920/80

VCO2 113

VO2 136

Resting metabolic rate (% < predicted for body surface area)

2 22

Non protein RQ .85

Test Dean Al Ref

Card Output l/min 15.3 10.8

Max HR/min 166 131

Str.vol. ml 92 82 110

Cheers, Al.

Alan Pater, Ph.D.; Faculty of Medicine; Memorial University; St. 's, NL

A1B 3V6 Canada; Tel. No.: (709) 777-6488; Fax No.: (709) 777-7010; email:

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