[codingdave]

I just want to second this - Ranges in your blood work are not hard limits on the acceptable range. They are the normal ranges. If you fall anywhere in them, high or low, you are fine. If you fall a bit outside the range you are probably still fine. Doctors get concerned when you are multiples of the ranges. So the higher end of normal is just... normal.

[novok]

Ranges have been going up because the population is getting unhealthy, and they're based on population distributions, if you go by ranges that were what the populace was in the 40s or 50s, %90 of the population is not in a good state and is metabolically unhealthy.

It's the modern day smoking, just because everyone is doing it, doesn't mean it's good.