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Health Scare? Health > Wealth.
By Turtle Investor  •  February 17, 2023
At this point in time, I’m probably the healthiest I have ever been in recent years. This wasn’t always the case. To the best of my memory, it was around 2017 when I got my first health scare. The company that I was with gave us a complimentary health screening session, and the results came back with a little surprise – not quite the kind I was expecting. All along, I tend to do OK in fitness tests e.g. IPPT and genetically, I don’t really gain much weight that easily at all. I was expecting to coast along just fine, except that wasn’t the case. Sky-high cholesterol For reference, these were my 2017 results versus the so-called desired levels in brackets.
  • Total Cholesterol 7.15 (<5.2 MMOL/L)
  • HDL 1.61 (>1.0 MMOL/L)
  • LDL 4.92 (<3.3 MMOL/L)
  • Triglycerides 1.36 (<1.7 MMOL/L)
  • Total Cholesterol / HDL → Ratio 4.44 (<4.4)
I suppose it was a timely wake-up call to start focusing a little more on my health....
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By Turtle Investor
Hello there! I am Kevin and the author behind the Turtle Investor blog. At age 37, I hit CPF Full Retirement Sum (FRS) of $176,000 on the last day of 2019, twelve years after graduating from university. I am married and owns a 4-room apartment. I continue to be gainfully employed to build up my portfolio and provide my loved ones with better lives. Leaving everything behind and transitioning to a digital nomad life in Bali remains an option but not something that I’m actively pursuing now 🙂
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