I think, if you increased your salmon, cod, tuna, halibut,(some fishes can get really expensive) sardines, white fish, shrimp, catfish you will see an immediate impact the next time you test. Eat sockeye and wild. West Coast caught fish and not East Coast Atlantic farm fish. I have inflammatory problems and anything farmed makes my joints stiff. So if you have a problem with inflammatory type, arthritis is next the shrimp and go really low on the tuna and the sardines and the mackerels because they have purines. Also, what are you doing for exercise? That’s an important component and puzzle piece. It doesn’t have to be much but what are you doing in that regard?
The plant-based stuff can be really tricky. A lot of people think being vegan is healthy and they substitute good lean proteins for fatty plant based products. One example is cashew based pesto and cheeses. Some of the really good tasting plant based products are super fatty and they work against Your cholesterol and triglycerides. What most people don’t know is that your body has its own signature cholesterol. So you don’t use the cholesterol from the eggs directly. But what you do, that is wrong is give your body, the elements, the building blocks, of cholesterol Readily available in the fatty plant based products and so it’s skyrocket your LDL and your triglycerides. I had a lot of nutritional chemistry in college in the 70s and 80s and nothing’s really changed about the simplicity of cholesterol. You might be thinking you are doing good for your body but if you’re eating processed plant-based stuff there’s probably a lot of hidden fats!