On 15/4/2018, I have attended the free medical checkup session organized by OK Pharmacy at Aman Suria in collaboration with 1MCA Foundation.
The test being done that day involves blood pressure, blood glucose/cholesterol, body fat analysis, plus more advanced electromagnetic wave scan of whole body. And the results is shown as below:
As it shown above, the results appears normal, but there is some hidden data which did not shown up on the results sheets above. The results and advice are obtained from careful measurement of the health experts.
Lets begin, currently I'm 28 years old, my current height is 170cm with 51.7kg weight, which equates to BMI of 17.9 (lower than normal BMI of 18.5 for normal healthy person)
In terms of blood pressure, it measures at 130/74 which is slightly higher than 120/80. The reason is stressful work life plus lack of good sleep. As I'm currently work as customer service officer plus driving Grab part time, it is difficult to maintain a balance work-life balance unless an effective solution can be found.
For pulse rate, it recorded as 91 pulse/min, which is not much of the concern, considered that I have walked some distance to the pharmacy after I parked my car some distance away.
In term of glucose level, it measures at 5.2mmol/L, which is still in normal range for male (less than 6 mmol/L) considered my last meal is about 4 hours ago, which is more than the recommended minimum fasting time of 2 hours prior to medical checkup.
The checkup also reveals my uric acid level is at normal level at 0.27mmol/L, which is still in normal range for male (0.2 - 0.42 mmol/L). Uric acid are basically created from body naturally or from seafood which is regulated by kidney. The low level of uric acid in our body can also indicates our kidney health.
There is also further test which some of the parameters that I never come across before as per explained below:
- Body fat it only recorded 6.2% (low, for men normal rate is 10%),
- Visceral fat at 1.0 (hardness of cholestrol in our body, scale from 1 to 10, lower means less hard)
- Muscle fat at only 46.0kg (mass of muscle plus fat)
- Physical rating at 7 (muscle mass and body fat percentage)
- Bone mass at 2.51g (denser the better as it is vital for full body support from strong bones)
- BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, which measures the rate of energy the body must take in terms of food to sustain daily lifestyle) of 1345kJ
- Metabolic age (by comparing your Basal Metabolic Rate to the average BMR of your chronological age group) of 18
- Total body water of 62.8% (for men, ideal body water percentage is 50% - 65%)
Further extent of body health test which I done it for the first time are the electromagnetic wave scan for 10 minutes of my whole body, which can reveals more of the internal organ condition which the above checks cannot prove. And this is came as a surprise for me.
According to the health expert whom conducted the electromagnetic scan, due to my current work stress and lack of sleep, my body functions generally functions slowly. Coupled with less than required nutrients taken from food, the amount of nutrients adsorbed by my body decreases. The expert added that my intestinal digestion and liver function to detoxify is slower coupled with slowed nutrients absorption from my guts.
The results gave me realization that my current effort to sustain healthy lifestyle still did not goes far enough and I may over stress myself in the process, but I'm still not too late to completely change my lifestyle.
In summary, after such intensive health checks, there are some resolution that I need to made to improve my healthy lifestyle:
- Balance my work commitment and my rest time.
- Avoid unnecessary activities prior to bedtime and to have early bedtime once feeling drowsy.
- Includes more food intake and in nutritious manner to improve my body nutrition levels.
- Increases calorie intake in moderate level but not in excessive amount.
- Improve my exercise level daily.
