Johnwen wrote:A rise in cholesterol above 220 is a sign something is going on! A simple TSH test can confirm this. Anything over 1.5 should throw up red flags and looking in your mouth and seeing more metal then enamel would be the place to start.
Interesting suggestion. My initial TC 8 years ago was 264, but immediately dropped, in average still only been 199. Also I find it interesting that observed lowest all-cause mortality with TC is a U-shaped curve, with the best outcome between 180-250.
TSH took 3 years to drop from a median of 2.7 down to an avg. of 1.5 for the remaining years. The problem I see with TSH, as a pituary hormone it might fail to tell that much about thyroid. For example my, fT3 has in average has only been 2.4 (2.5-4.2 normal, 3.5-4.2 optimal range) and the highest at my first test 8 years ago at 3.4. Low free T3 is off course also a marker for high inflammation. However, compared to TSH in my case there is clearly a contradiction.
The problem for me is, I did have my first root-canal a year before all my PAD trouble started. But with meanwhile such borderline values, am not sure a removal of an otherwise non-disturbing root-canal could bring much. All the mercury fillings have been gone in my case since many decades. Because all my teeth with them have crumbled to naught. Guess due to the tetracycline injected as new-born against pneumonia, which isn't given anymore up to 2 years of age due to that issue.