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Your blood consists of more than just blood cells.
It also consists of albumin.
Albumin is a little bit like the white of an egg.
When you crack an egg, there’s the yolk and the white.
We call the egg white the albumin of the egg.
It’s a similar thing in human blood.
Human blood has albumin in it — and we don’t think about it, but the albumin is in critically important.
If you have all enough albumin, you live longer.
If you don’t have enough albumin, you are much frailer and less likely to live a long life.
Measuring albumin is something the labs often do during almost all routine blood tests.
But doctors often don’t know how to interpret albumin levels.
They’ve even set the level range that is technically too low because they don’t know enough about it yet.
But you will live longer with higher albumin.
Here was my albumin level before I got super healthy.
You can see the level was 4.8 and falls nicely between the levels 3.5 and 5.5, which are considered ideal.
It’s measured in grams per deciliter.
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The point here is that it’s not good to be at 3.5 — that’s way too low.
It’s good to be around 4.8 or five or 5.5.
And we’re going to see what we can learn about albumin today, which is very important to a long life.
So here’s a study where researchers evaluated serum abatement levels to predict how long older people would live.
They studied 4100 people who were aged at least 71 or older.
The researchers looked at whether the people could perform certain basic life skills unassisted.
They checked to see if each person could walk around unassisted, walk 1/2 mile, and go up and down stairs on their own.
They also looked to see if the participants could sit in a chair and get up on their own, bathe themselves, and so on.
After determining their life skills baseline, the researchers turned to looking at the participants’ health.
They looked at health issues like heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes, or hip fracture.
And they monitored their body mass index (BMI).
Over two years, about 935 people died out of the 4100.
All-cause mortality rates were highest in those in the lowest albumin level.
For an albumin level below 3.5, the death rate was twice as high as people with a higher albumin level.
The risk for death rose as the albumin level decreased.
The effect of albumin level on mortality was independent of physical disability and chronic conditions.
So a healthy albumin level meant a better chance of surviving other health issues for longer.
But there is such a thing as an albumin level that is too high.
If it’s higher than that maximum shown in my lab test, 5.5, it can be a sign of an issue.
It may very well be from an infection or some metabolic disease.
But you want to have an albumin level at the higher end of that scale — and you will live longer.
That’s because albumin carries drugs, fats, and all kinds of metabolic compounds in and out of the cells.
So albumin is extremely critical to health.
Knowing this, here’s what you should do now.
If your albumin levels are low, there are ways you can improve them.
Consider these foods for longevity and a healthier life.
You need to start increasing your protein and lowering your PUFA intake.
You should also raise your sugar consumption and potentially lower your fat intake.
People who consume plenty of sugar and good quality protein, and who avoid PUFA fats, generally will have a high albumin level.
If you’re going to get extra protein, it’s a good idea not to depend upon things like protein powders.
You can use than gelatin or collagen but skip the protein powders.
The best sources of protein are going to be dairy protein, followed by shrimp, seafood, fish.
Good-quality grass fed meats other than pork are great sources as well.
If you can eat chicken or pork, aim for extremely lean cuts.
Chicken and pork are very high in PUFA fats, which depress metabolism and will lower albumin levels.
http://acpjc.acponline.org/Content/122/2/issue/ACPJC-1995-122-2-050.htm
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