 So, it's been a little while since I've given you guys an update on my health and an even longer period of time since we've quit the carnivore diet. I think it's been almost two years now and if you guys are unfamiliar with the whole scenario, the diet basically made my liver progressively worse and worse. Initially, all my health problems started when I took Accutane, which is a pharmaceutical drug that dermatologists give for your acne. So, basically the last 10 years of my life have me been trying to get back to some sort of normal physical health. I have been feeling better and better. The blood work we're going over today has been indicating that, but the main issue is, I mean, for example, it's a beautiful sunny day here in New York and I'm supposed to go down to work in my warehouse. So, hey, maybe I'll try to get one or two hours of sun, but I really need a permanent vacation to just relax and rest for a year or two and that would really fix my health given the circumstances of my personal life right now as opposed to my health life. That's not really feasible. So, the tests we got today are hepatic fannol, liver function, testosterone, ferritin. So the other tests that I usually get in addition to this might be some vitamin D, a few other tests, but I don't go to the doctor guys and these can be kind of expensive, so I didn't want to spend a few hundred dollars extra just to double check my vitamin D levels and the main thing you're doing there is you want to see what the active and inactive vitamin D is to kind of gauge if you're magnesium deficient. And the reason I don't go to doctors is because back when I was experiencing all of these health issues years ago, I probably went to over 15 different doctors and specialists. I had MRIs done, I had colonoscopy, colonoscopy, not the one where they go down the throat, the endoscopy. I had all this stuff done and they didn't find anything. Not one doctor had any clue what was going on and I couldn't sleep. One point, I was losing so much weight, so we use walkinlab.com for the blood work. And if you're in New York and they don't allow it, so you got to like drive to Connecticut but there's a way around it. So the hepatic function shows my previous results from 2020, so I haven't gotten blood work in about a year and a half. The protein is about the same, albumin is about the same, bilirubin which is the amount of bile in the blood is also about the same. What went down is alkaline phosphatase, which is a pretty good sign, usually if that's really high it can be a sign of liver damage and the ALT and the AST have also gone down. And what's important to note is I've been drinking water kefir, which is alcoholic pretty much every single day since that period of time. People say alcohol is bad for your liver but they don't understand the context of the entirety of the nutrition, the B vitamins, the probiotic benefit of the water kefir. So despite me not having alcohol back then and drinking it over this period of time, my liver enzymes have actually gotten better. And unfortunately the liver enzymes aren't really a great indicator of overall liver health unless you're really, really screwed. So if you have like a lot of iron in your liver, it's full of a lot of crap, you're feeling horrible, these will be elevated but they'll only be elevated at the point where it's already really, really severe. It's nice when clients come to me and they just have one or two issues and there's some glaring and balances in their diet because you don't want to get to the point where you have insomnia, you're not sleeping, you can't function, you can't even go to work. What also helps with the liver function is ferritin, which is the liver iron stores. So back years ago the first time I got this tested, I think it was five to six hundred and you could lower ferritin by correcting the diet, but it's much quicker and better and much less stress off your body if you donate blood or go to a hematologist and they're able to schedule the phlebotomies where they draw blood out more frequently. There's some people with hemochromatosis which is a genetic disorder, well they literally donate blood once a week or twice a week for years and years and years. And I don't think genetic disorders really exist, I think it's just severe lifestyle and dietary imbalances that people will blame, doctors blame on genetic disorders just so they don't give you the real solution to your health problems. So the previous ferritin was in October 2021 last year, so five months ago and it was 22 and now my ferritin is 23, so you might think it didn't change, but I donated blood once between October and now. So it probably went up a little bit to maybe 56 to your 70, I donated blood and then it's back down to 23. I tell people you want to get the ferritin below 30 as fast as possible so you start feeling better, you start using up some of those iron stores, your body recycles it and you don't want to go too far, you know if you get the ferritin to zero sometimes you'll get lightheaded, you'll get anemia symptoms, but if you're eating a lot of red meat and you know you've reduced the radiation, your overall lifestyle is pretty healthy, you don't have to worry about overdoing it a little bit, but you definitely want to get the ferritin checked after it's below like 50 if you are doing those blood donations because it will make a drastic drop from each blood donation. It could be 30 points, it could be 50 points depending on how damaged your liver is, you know I've seen ferritin go down 100 or 200 points just from one blood donation. And the final test we got today is testosterone and I wasn't really using this to see how my natural testosterone production is because I know it's always been around 600. This is a frame of reference for if I start using the beef testicles or the testicle supplements again to get more energy. So some of you guys saw years ago when people even accused me of using steroids when my testosterone was 3,000 that was from the androgens, the naturally occurring androgens in the beef testicles and back in the late 1800s, early 1900s allegedly when testicles were invented, when steroids were invented it was actually extracted from animal testicles. So you know that's about as close as you could get to taking steroids without actually taking them but we'll get into that in a few months if I decide to do that. It was a little lower because I haven't been sleeping well lately but it's a good indicator that your liver isn't working well and you can't expect the testosterone levels to be high for you to feel really good unless you fix the root cause of your liver problems if it means being on a detox diet for a few years and you have to do certain things to alleviate that. You know a lot of people say hey ditch the supplements, ditch this, ditch that, just use foods, use natural stuff. Okay well what if doing that natural lifestyle takes years to fix your health problems, takes years for your testosterone production to be fixed, takes years for your ferritin to regulate. You want to try to do things that you know work and make you feel better, donating blood, eating beef testicles on occasion just so you can function day-to-day especially drinking the water kefir for probiotic. Hey if you have to drink water kefir every day for probiotics doesn't that mean your diet isn't working? Well as I just said it's not a quick instant overnight fix and that's the problem people expect to switch to new diet and feel good immediately but what I will say about water kefir out of the things I mentioned it is the most natural. I mean yeah they use leeches for drawing out blood, that you can eat animal testicles in a natural way to boost testosterone but almost every indigenous culture had some sort of fermented probiotic drink or some probiotics in their diet so I would say water kefir is actually not something that's like unnatural that is kind of skewing those lines so thank you guys for joining me today if you guys do want to reach out to me for a one-on-one consultation I do schedule them on frankdeshfa.com you know the problem is I'm not a physician MD so I can't order these tests myself for my clients so what I usually do is if they have blood work or if they can get a hermeneutalysis we schedule that and they get it they pay for it themselves it's a few hundred bucks but for the most part you know it's just gauging the severity of what their health issues are I've always been on the ball and my guesses have always been right if the person is able to accurately tell me what they've been doing for the past few years the blood work is just a nice reassurance and measurement every six months to a year just to make sure that we're on track so maybe I'll get an hour or two a sun before I go down to work today and show up late but we'll see so thank you guys for joining me please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos therefore as I said guys you can go to frankdestofon.com we have consultations on there and there's also all of my other businesses that you can support me through thanks again guys and I'll see you for tomorrow