This is another post of mine which is related to my currently dormant blog on dealing with hypertension, and with a recent thread on foamy urine related to albumin excretion in urine. I had to make a new thread on this, as I felt in itself it is a good subject.
I just got results from a blood test today. The CBC was very interesting to me this time, as I was able to glean some aspects of it that, to me, sheds more light on my ongoing hypertensive condition. I also had ESR, CRP, LDH, Albumin, and Uric Acid results. Early this year, I took an expensive test also for LDH Isoenzymes. Forgive me if I don't type out the result in a table, but I felt it easier for me as well as the reader to pick up on it, given that what matters is whether a metric is in optimal range or not.
From the CBC, I learned that I could be dehydrated, could have respiratory distress, and could have polycythemia, primarily because my RBC, hemoglobin, hemotocrit, and eosonophils are high (I was looking at the cheat sheet of Dr. Weatherby, a promoter of functional medicine).
I thought about it, and it seems to make sense to me. I'm dehydrated because my arteries may have smaller cross sectional area, and this would make the volume it carries less, and my vessels could be constricted, leading to hypovolemia, or lower blood volume. So relative to my build and to my supposed blood volume, I may be holding less blood volume than normal.
I also have respiratory distress because I'm chronically in a state of hypoxia (low tissue oxygenation). My body is inducing this state to protect me, I believe, as hypoxia induces the production of uric acid (my uric acid while, at the high range of optimal, is just within range because I'm taking a large dose daily of vitamin C, lessening the need for uric acid, both being antioxidants). This explains why my heart rate is low at mid60s to low 70s. And it also explains why when I improve the CO2 content in blood (as in increasing my control pause with Buteyko exercises) my blood pressure increases, as the body resists the improved tissue oxygenation that improved CO2 content in blood confers.
The polycythemia, a large concentration of RBCs, as well as higher hemoglobin and hemotocrit, indicates the body's attempt to compensate for low tissue oxygenation - by increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity.
I'm confused as to why I have high LDH, but low CRP and ESR values. All of these are markers for inflammation, but why aren't they all similar? This I know: there is tissue destruction from high LDH. I had to know where the tissue destruction is coming from, but the LDH isoenzyme test result doesn't pinpoint to any particular organ. I was suspecting it would be the kidney, but it comes out as inconclusive. Perhaps the low CRP and ESR values only indicate one thing- that there is no inflammation that is local to any specific organ. So, I can only conclude that the tissue destruction is systemic. And what is more systemic than the blood vessels that go around the entire body?
It's one month since I finally resolved a latent periodontitic condition that may have been around for at least 15 years. I had two teeth pulled, which was the result of a better dental scan of my teeth involving new technology, consisting still of x-ray, but with more precision (using what they call digital ct scan - to imply a more focused scan) and thermography. The scan revealed the hidden anaerobic infection under these two teeth. This was a chronic infection I had not known about, and which was the main source of stress, and which manifested in a hypertensive condition that could not be cured.
My hypertension after the periodontal surgery actually got worse. My urination became more foamy. I'm trying to make sense of it. I'm hoping that this is what's called a healing crisis. But not being born yesterday anymore, I'm not holding my breath. I want to understand this, and with understanding, I want to shepherd my body through it, even as I know my body has its own wisdom, for which I allowed it to confer high blood pressure on me through the years, without nary a consult with a conventional doctor.
Currently, I'm using vitamin C and lysine (Linus Pauling protocol for atherosclerosis), and I'm also using potassium citrate (making use of zeta potential to lessen agglomeration thanks to @Sheila), and I'm taking NAC (for internal glutathione) and coconut milk (for vitamin E). I'm also taking aspirin and niacinamide, as well as vitamin D, and the b-complex vitamins.
But I feel I'm missing something. Still.
While I'm using vitamin C to strengthen the collagen matrix to improve the structure of the endothelial lining of the blood vessels, and I'm using lysine to slowly draw away the lp (a) in plaque from the lining, I'm not doing anything to chip away at the biofilm that has accumulated over the years. Because the biofilm is real and alive, there's still a war going on between it and the phagocytes. Because the supply line has been cut off (the periodontal colony extinguished by the dental surgery), the biofilm is losing the war, but still has the high ground. My uric acid level is still high, indicating antioxidants are still needed to clean up after phagocytes deal with the biofilms, which would leave collateral trails of damage, as indicated by high LDH.
What I need is something to break that biofilm and smash the resistance. What should I use? Is it colloidal silver? Or the copper acetate I made a year ago? I want this to be a methodical old-fashioned assault on the plaque. Breaking the wall. Allowing troops to penetrate the wall and to wage battle within. I don't want to use the nuclear option. It may cause embolism, given the many years given for the wall to be reinforced.
Any idea would be very much appreciated.
I just got results from a blood test today. The CBC was very interesting to me this time, as I was able to glean some aspects of it that, to me, sheds more light on my ongoing hypertensive condition. I also had ESR, CRP, LDH, Albumin, and Uric Acid results. Early this year, I took an expensive test also for LDH Isoenzymes. Forgive me if I don't type out the result in a table, but I felt it easier for me as well as the reader to pick up on it, given that what matters is whether a metric is in optimal range or not.
From the CBC, I learned that I could be dehydrated, could have respiratory distress, and could have polycythemia, primarily because my RBC, hemoglobin, hemotocrit, and eosonophils are high (I was looking at the cheat sheet of Dr. Weatherby, a promoter of functional medicine).
I thought about it, and it seems to make sense to me. I'm dehydrated because my arteries may have smaller cross sectional area, and this would make the volume it carries less, and my vessels could be constricted, leading to hypovolemia, or lower blood volume. So relative to my build and to my supposed blood volume, I may be holding less blood volume than normal.
I also have respiratory distress because I'm chronically in a state of hypoxia (low tissue oxygenation). My body is inducing this state to protect me, I believe, as hypoxia induces the production of uric acid (my uric acid while, at the high range of optimal, is just within range because I'm taking a large dose daily of vitamin C, lessening the need for uric acid, both being antioxidants). This explains why my heart rate is low at mid60s to low 70s. And it also explains why when I improve the CO2 content in blood (as in increasing my control pause with Buteyko exercises) my blood pressure increases, as the body resists the improved tissue oxygenation that improved CO2 content in blood confers.
The polycythemia, a large concentration of RBCs, as well as higher hemoglobin and hemotocrit, indicates the body's attempt to compensate for low tissue oxygenation - by increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity.
I'm confused as to why I have high LDH, but low CRP and ESR values. All of these are markers for inflammation, but why aren't they all similar? This I know: there is tissue destruction from high LDH. I had to know where the tissue destruction is coming from, but the LDH isoenzyme test result doesn't pinpoint to any particular organ. I was suspecting it would be the kidney, but it comes out as inconclusive. Perhaps the low CRP and ESR values only indicate one thing- that there is no inflammation that is local to any specific organ. So, I can only conclude that the tissue destruction is systemic. And what is more systemic than the blood vessels that go around the entire body?
It's one month since I finally resolved a latent periodontitic condition that may have been around for at least 15 years. I had two teeth pulled, which was the result of a better dental scan of my teeth involving new technology, consisting still of x-ray, but with more precision (using what they call digital ct scan - to imply a more focused scan) and thermography. The scan revealed the hidden anaerobic infection under these two teeth. This was a chronic infection I had not known about, and which was the main source of stress, and which manifested in a hypertensive condition that could not be cured.
My hypertension after the periodontal surgery actually got worse. My urination became more foamy. I'm trying to make sense of it. I'm hoping that this is what's called a healing crisis. But not being born yesterday anymore, I'm not holding my breath. I want to understand this, and with understanding, I want to shepherd my body through it, even as I know my body has its own wisdom, for which I allowed it to confer high blood pressure on me through the years, without nary a consult with a conventional doctor.
Currently, I'm using vitamin C and lysine (Linus Pauling protocol for atherosclerosis), and I'm also using potassium citrate (making use of zeta potential to lessen agglomeration thanks to @Sheila), and I'm taking NAC (for internal glutathione) and coconut milk (for vitamin E). I'm also taking aspirin and niacinamide, as well as vitamin D, and the b-complex vitamins.
But I feel I'm missing something. Still.
While I'm using vitamin C to strengthen the collagen matrix to improve the structure of the endothelial lining of the blood vessels, and I'm using lysine to slowly draw away the lp (a) in plaque from the lining, I'm not doing anything to chip away at the biofilm that has accumulated over the years. Because the biofilm is real and alive, there's still a war going on between it and the phagocytes. Because the supply line has been cut off (the periodontal colony extinguished by the dental surgery), the biofilm is losing the war, but still has the high ground. My uric acid level is still high, indicating antioxidants are still needed to clean up after phagocytes deal with the biofilms, which would leave collateral trails of damage, as indicated by high LDH.
What I need is something to break that biofilm and smash the resistance. What should I use? Is it colloidal silver? Or the copper acetate I made a year ago? I want this to be a methodical old-fashioned assault on the plaque. Breaking the wall. Allowing troops to penetrate the wall and to wage battle within. I don't want to use the nuclear option. It may cause embolism, given the many years given for the wall to be reinforced.
Any idea would be very much appreciated.
