My house had a chicken week as well (at least my wife's cooking - then I came in with beef and pork).

There have been times in my life when I was obsessive about getting all the "data" I could about myself. Now isn't one of those times, I'm kind of opposite, figuring that anything I would gather would also be available for potentially anyone else to obtain, and I don't want the data out there to be shared with my friendly government or pharma institution (there isn't much separating those two right now). The standard blood tests are good enough to confirm any suspicions or point at any deficiencies. I believe I am aware of the boston hearth diagnostics tests - these are the tests looking at the size of the cholesterol molecules, rather than just the count, correct? As in, a high number of tiny cholesterol is way better than a much lower number of big cholesterol, if memory serves.

Right now I am considering the blood tests to be just a stopgap, really, making sure I'm not driving off a cliff, or at least letting there be some data for if things actually start going bad wrong. For my day to day, I'm much more interested in symptomology - how is my energy level, mood, and severity of any physical annoyances.

You asked about gall bladder and fats, and it was an early concern, but hasn't really been an issue. I can still need to find a bathroom quickly, but usually it can be traced to cheese/dairy, which is still an occasional issue, but has gotten better. I think the cheese thing is still a lingering post-Covid symptom, and cannot figure out what cheese(s) might be worse than others. Actually I don't think it really matters, because I can eat something with cheese one day, be fine, eat the same thing, same kind of cheese another day, and at least have some abdominal cramping. For now, I just enjoy cheese cautiously.

I don't know what "inflammation" really covers as far as symptoms and annoyances, but diet hasn't resolved all the things that I thought it might. However, nothing has gotten worse, except maybe some knee pain that may be due to actually straining something rather than just inflammation and eroded cartilage.

Interesting side effects - I am normally prone to sunburns. My sun resistance has gone way up. I think I've only used sunblock twice this summer, and haven't been painfully burnt. Second, body odor. I've never been a daily bather, and I know when I stink - but my sweat is not carrying the strong odor it once did. I think this is just the lack of salts, sugars, and yeasts in my body, as I don't really have any of that to sweat out. I may have to experiment with pillowcases, I've always been prone to turn them yellow over time, same with undershirts - and was told it was mostly a genetic thing. I'm wondering if it really has more of a basis in the chemistry of my sweat, which has certainly changed a bit.

I don't supplement. Actually, lies, I still take a multivitamin (Costco's daily multi, basically centrum), and a fish oil. And two blood pressure meds. I plan on stopping the multivitamin and fish oil for a while, once I run out, just to see how it goes. When I do that, I may decide it is time to eat more organ meats. I really haven't been, but I'm not against it.

I'm also considering trying to drop caffeine. I think that is still a long ways off, and just seems like more self-punishment than any benefit I would see at this point.