# Health

## TOC 

[diet](diet.md) |
[health](health.md) |
[mental](mental.md)


## Log

- 23/12/17 - added a [Diet](/notes/health/diet) log.
- 23/12/17 - added a ^ sleep log.
- 23/12/17 - bout that time of year to start thinking about losing weight so I spent some time this morning converting my health status downloads to a decent format and I figured I'd update this page and figure out a way to keep them in sync. 

> ^ keeping some items private via `draft` status and `.gitignore` ( No worries, I'm pretty sure my health insurer is getting a pretty good deal anyway )

## Todo

- lose 15 lbs
- Shingles Vaccine

## Status

- **Age**: 50
- **Medications**: none ✅ ( trying to keep it this way )
  - occasionally take aspirin
- **Weight**: Current: 190 lbs ( Healthy BMI is 130-175 / Ideal - 160 ❌ Target 🎯 - 175)
- **Blood Pressure**: 110/70 (23/10/31 - good ✅ )
- **HDL** cholesterol: 38mg/dL ( Low ❌ 40-60 mg/dL ) Ratio 4.1 ( Normal ✅ < 4.5 )
  - lose weight 😢 < 15lbs / exercise more
  - more fish/flax/greens & less sugar/carbs
  - possible familial mixed hyperlipidemia ( inherited )
- **LDL** cholesterol: Calculated 89 ( Normal ✅ < 129mg/dL )
- **Cholesterol**: Calculated - 150 ( Normal ✅ < 200mg/dL )
- **Triglycerides**: 130  ( Normal ✅ < 150mg/dL )
- **TSH**: 1.654 ( Normal )
- **Urinalysis**: ( Normal  ✅ 0.550 - 4.780 uIU/mL )
- **Blood** Other:
  - previously had high C-reactive proteins indicating inflammation/infection
- **Skin**: Too much sun from tennis via dermatologist
- **Colon**: clear ✅ 23/05/20 ( doc recommended early since family history )

( Last Metabolic Panel 23/05/18 )

### Genetic

- Age-related macular degeneration ( DNA test )
- diabetes ( dad's )
- colon/intestine ( mom's )

## TOC

### Physical

[Diet](/notes/health/diet) | exercise | sleep | genetics

#### Environment

house | weather | air quality | clothing | shoes

### Mental

mindset | play | learn | social | meditation | spirit

## About

23/12/17 - I'd just like to keep some notes along the way so I have a reference. I'm just like everyone else about this time of year. I have a pretty holistic sorta mindset on health even though I've found myself with some weaknesses over the years. I smoked cigarettes in college and for a few years following. I'm in pretty good shape right now, but I come from a long line of plump little Welshmen so I'm privy to indulge. My eyes have suffered in recent years from screen time and the only DNA marker risk I have is macular degeneration. My dad and a couple of his brothers have onset diabetes so I'm going to try and avoid it altogether with exercise and diet. In regards to wholistic, I find it odd that folks will wear a device to track the thirty minutes of steps they do a day and ignore the other 1410 minutes. Aside from genetics, I think the most important impact on health is your routine, especially lifestyle, diet, sleep, and exercise so I'll start by logging some of those.

### Sync

I noticed a project not too long ago on Github that allows for an open-source export of your medical data from MyChart and others. Would like to explore that at some point so I could just sync the blood, lipid panel, and other tests... so I can move that data around at will mainly because I like the control and I think there will end up being decent AI diagnostic tools available in the future.

related 
- Mere Medical - https://github.com/cfu288/mere-medical
- https://github.com/k0rventen/apple-health-grafana