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Your Labs Are Normal… So Why Do You Feel Awful?

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Josh

Every doctor tells me my labs are normal, but I still feel exhausted, inflamed, achy. What biomarkers would you look at to uncover the hidden causes of inflammation? There's has to be reasons of why a patient feels bad. If a patient has symptoms and problems, the doctor just isn't testing the labs properly. Uh you have this lab range. This lab range will tell you what's normal and what's not normal. That lab range is typically a six-month average of patients who've got their bloodwork done at that lab. And the sicker a population gets, the more broad that lab gets. You know, we we do labs all over the world. Uh we probably see 300 patients a day with my 10 offices combined. We had a lab in a rural area where, like, you would have full-blown diabetes, and the lab range said you're normal. It was absolutely insane. One, you can't trust the lab range. That's a sick range. Like when you get your labs tested, and you go to the lab to get your lab work done, just look around at the people. You got a lady on the couch, she looks like she dead, she opens her eyes, and you're like, "Oh my gosh, that lady's not dead anymore." Like, these aren't healthy ranges. These are sick ranges, right? And so we have to look at those ranges and be able to look at, okay, what's optimal and what's sick.

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