{"id":151,"date":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/what-to-eat-and-skip-before-your-blood-test\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:00:00","slug":"what-to-eat-and-skip-before-your-blood-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/what-to-eat-and-skip-before-your-blood-test\/","title":{"rendered":"What to eat (and avoid) before a blood test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fasting, coffee, supplements and exercise: a short checklist so your results reflect the everyday you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug 12, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Rohan Desai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How you prepare changes results more than most people expect. None of it is complicated, but getting it wrong is the most common reason we have to repeat a panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The night before<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your panel covers lipids or fasting insulin, stop eating ten hours before the draw. Water is fine, even encouraged: dehydration concentrates your blood and skews several markers. Avoid alcohol for 24 hours, since it moves triglycerides and liver enzymes sharply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The morning of<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black coffee isn\u2019t neutral: it lifts cortisol and can nudge glucose, so save it for afterward. Stop biotin for 48 hours, because it interferes with thyroid and hormone assays. Skip a hard workout that morning; it raises CK and can make a healthy liver panel look worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything else stays the same. Take prescribed medication as usual unless we\u2019ve said otherwise, and tell us what you take so we can read the numbers in the right context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Rohan Desai<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal medicine, Tinsdale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting, coffee, supplements and exercise: a short checklist so your results reflect the everyday you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}