I recently was having a blood test for something else and requested liver function test as well. It came back with slightly above normal GGT, at 63. My doctor wasn't very concerned with this. He said elevated GGT is only really concerning when it gets into the hundreds. He suggested I just have another test in six months.
I'm not that concerned either. It might have little to do with kava, as apparently it can have to do with fat around the middle (I'm not overweight but that's where my fat tends to go). Both sides of my family have a history of gallstones, which might be related. I will cut down a little on the kava and try to avoid perhaps my main bad kava habit - about once a week I drink kava and about 4-8 beers alcohol within 24 hours of each other (though on different calendar days).
But my main question is whether the fact I (foolishly) had kava less than 24 hours before the blood test is likely to have skewed the results? That makes sense to me, but I can't find much information online. There's nothing much about kava. When it comes to alcohol - which admittedly is a different substance - there's people, including doctors, saying different things. Some seem to imply you could almost have a few beers an hour or two before the test and it wouldn't matter if you have a healthy liver, whilst others seem to say drinking too close to the test can skew it. Anyone know (for kava in particular, I mean)?
I'm not that concerned either. It might have little to do with kava, as apparently it can have to do with fat around the middle (I'm not overweight but that's where my fat tends to go). Both sides of my family have a history of gallstones, which might be related. I will cut down a little on the kava and try to avoid perhaps my main bad kava habit - about once a week I drink kava and about 4-8 beers alcohol within 24 hours of each other (though on different calendar days).
But my main question is whether the fact I (foolishly) had kava less than 24 hours before the blood test is likely to have skewed the results? That makes sense to me, but I can't find much information online. There's nothing much about kava. When it comes to alcohol - which admittedly is a different substance - there's people, including doctors, saying different things. Some seem to imply you could almost have a few beers an hour or two before the test and it wouldn't matter if you have a healthy liver, whilst others seem to say drinking too close to the test can skew it. Anyone know (for kava in particular, I mean)?
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