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Your ferritin (storage iron levels) are slowly going down ever since you started CR. Same about your red blood cell count. If your continue that way you will end up anemic.
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Iron increases oxidative damage... bad. My Fe levels are at 85, i'm fine... and no I will not end up anemic as I get tested often.
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You brag about your low cholesterol level and post as many references as you can find to prove that is healthy. But look at your HDL level. It went from 46 to 39 when it is supposed to be >=40.
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My LDL decreased from 65 to 58 also. To put it in simple terms. Why the need for increased garbage trucks if there aint much garbage, right? My Total cholesterol to HDL is 2.8. Thats fine.
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Your thyroid function is declining too. Your body temp, T3 and T4 levels are decreasing and it is not a good thing.
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I want reduced T3. Lower body temperature and less damage to DNA is a good thing! Please take a read of this (in full if you can). The point is, CRers, including me, have not got clinical hypothyroidism.
Calorie Restriction Appears Better Than Exercise At Slowing Primary Aging
http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...60531164818.htm
"The researchers found reduced T3 levels -- similar to those seen in animals whose rate of aging is reduced by CR -- only in the people on CR diets.
But their serum concentrations of two other hormones -- thyroxin (T4) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) -- were normal, indicating that those on CR were not suffering from the thyroid disease of clinical hypothyroidism. The findings are published online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism."
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As someone who is hypothyroid I can tell that my first symptoms were decline in body temp and heart rate.
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And lower body temperature has now been INDEPENDANTLY correlated with longer lifespan, in animals and humans.
"Science magazine from researchers at the National Institute on Aging observed that men with lower body temperatures tended to live longer those with higher body temperatures."
Also
Cool mice live longer
http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2900
"Mice cooled by half a degree below normal had a life expectancy 20 longer, or the equivalent of 7-8 additional human years."
Recently there was a study showing that those who had a slower heart rate had a decrease in mortality by 18%.
SLOWER HEARTBEAT COULD MEAN LONGER LIFE
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/20...uld_mean_lo.php
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Your BMI is NOT in a healthy range - it is 17.2. It should be above 18.5.
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Those studies in one of my previous post disagrees with that. AND CR has nothing to do with weight either.
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I could go on and on about your WBC
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So can I. Did I mention that lower white blood count is an indicator of less inflammation? Less cancer, less heart disease and less all-cause mortality? [1, 2, 4, 5, 6]. And dog immune system is improved by CR [3], Rhesus monkey immune system is improved by CR [7], Rodent immune system is improved by CR...
REFERENCES
(1)
Association Between Circulating White Blood Cell Count
and Cancer Mortality
Association Between Circulating White Blood Cell Count
and Cancer Mortality: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Anoop Shankar; Jie Jin Wang; Elena Rochtchina; Mimi C.
Yu; Richard Kefford; Paul Mitchell
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:188-194.
ABSTRACT
Background Inflammatory processes are implicated in
the development and progression of cancer. However, it
is not clear whether systemic markers of inflammation
predict cancer. We examined the prospective
relationship between circulating white blood cell
(WBC) count and cancer mortality.
Results Higher WBC count was found to be associated
with all cancer mortality. In proportional hazards
models adjusting for age, sex, education, body mass
index, hematocrit level, alcohol consumption, physical
Conclusion These data provide new epidemiological
evidence of an association between circulating WBC
count, a widely available marker of inflammation, and
subsequent cancer mortality.
(2)
Forecasting Heart Disease in Women: Will White Blood Cells Count?
http://www.healthology.com/womens-health/article235.htm
(3)
It appears that the immune system of dogs is improved by CR.
Greeley EH, Spitznagel E, Lawler DF, Kealy RD, Segre M. Modulation of canine immunosenescence by life-long caloric restriction. Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2006 Jun 15;111(3-4):287-99. Epub 2006 Mar 29.
PMID: 16567002
http://tinyurl.com/ychkmo
Caloric restriction (CR) has been shown to retard immunosenescence and to
extend median and maximum life span in rodent species. Longitudinal effects
of CR on the canine immune system are presented in this report. A group of
48 Labrador Retrievers, divided at weaning into weight- and sex-matched
pairs, were maintained on a diet restriction protocol from age 8 weeks until
death. Each restricted dog received 75% of the total food consumed by its
control-fed pair mate. Immune parameters were monitored from 4 to 13 years.
CR retarded age-related declines in both lymphoproliferative responses and
absolute numbers of lymphocytes and the T, CD4, and CD8-cell subsets. In
females, CR attenuated the age-related increase in T-cell percentages and
marginally retarded the age-related increase in memory cell percentages.
Age-related changes in B-cell percentages and numbers were augmented by CR.
(4)
White Blood Cell Count and Risk for All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality in a Cohort of Koreans
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/c...act/162/11/1062
(5)
White blood cell levels are a good predictor of strokes, heart attacks, and fatal heart disease in older women, according to a nationwide study (probably applies to men also)
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/...whitecells.html
(6)
WBC Count and the Risk of Cancer Mortality in a National Sample of U.S. Adults: Results from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Mortality Studyhttp://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/co...tract/13/6/1052
(7)
Low-Calorie Diet Boosts Immune System
Monkeys on calorie restriction have more youthful and robust immune systems.http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/17856/