How to Build a Biomarker Panel That Tracks Your Own Training
A practical guide to choosing, timing, and interpreting blood and molecular markers for endurance and strength training, including how to tell a real change from analytical noise.
Tag: exercise
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What a Fitness Blood Test Measures, and Why Exercise Ruins It
A fitness or gym blood panel is only interpretable if you control what you did in the 72 hours before the draw. Here is the panel we would order, the confounders that corrupt it, and how to analyze the results over time.
Using a CGM for Fitness: What the Data Can and Cannot Tell You
A practical guide to wearing a continuous glucose monitor around training: sensor placement, interstitial lag, exporting raw CSV data, the metrics worth computing, and the artifacts that will fool you.
Yes, Exercise Can Raise ALT and AST — How to Tell Muscle From Liver
Heavy lifting and long endurance work can push ALT and AST into the hundreds with a healthy liver. Here is how to separate muscle-derived enzyme release from hepatic injury using GGT, CK, ALT/AST ratio, and a controlled retest.