{"id":71,"date":"2009-04-27T05:47:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/liver-enzymes-and-weight-lifting\/.php"},"modified":"2009-04-28T06:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T06:14:30","slug":"liver-enzymes-and-weight-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/liver-enzymes-and-weight-lifting.php","title":{"rendered":"Liver Enzymes and Weight Lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/liver-enzymes-and-weight-lifting.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just had a blood test and my AST &#038; ALT levels are slightly elevated. I haven&#8217;t drunk in 24 years, never used steroids etc.<\/p>\n<p>A quick bit of research revealed that liver enzyme elevation is common after heavy exercise.<br \/>\nI supplement with glutamine, creatine and protein also which could also elevate certain liver markers.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is don&#8217;t freak out over slightly elevated liver enzymes. If you want to make certain &#8211; stop supplementing and working out for a week then re-test.<\/p>\n<p>My test was for the army so I will only do a re-test if they request it.<\/p>\n<p>Heres a great medical study on the subject:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2291230<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Just had a blood test and my AST &#038; ALT levels are slightly elevated. I haven&#8217;t drunk in 24 years, never used steroids etc. A quick bit of research revealed that liver enzyme elevation is common after heavy exercise. I supplement with glutamine, creatine and protein also which could also elevate certain liver markers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,273,275],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-alt","tag-ast","tag-liver-enzymes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}