Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast I'm Katie from Wellness Mama.com and you hear me say on this

podcast a lot that we are each our own primary health care provider and that while we can work with amazing

practitioners we still hold the responsibility for our own health and that it's our

daily choices and habits that make the biggest difference over time. But the one piece

of this that I feel like has been missing in the past is that there

are certain things that we don't get an easy picture on a day-to-day basis like our lab results

and what might be going on internally at a pre-symptum level, which is why I'm so excited to be here with today's

guest, Pernitha Pateel, to delve into a new way to access lab testing that is so much more affordable than anything I have found in the past

to the point that I was excited to partner with this company to help make this

even more accessible and to make sure you guys got early access to it before it's open to the general public. I got to

to go through this testing recently and it was really fascinating the things

that it showed me and I feel like this is one of the important and final

pieces on truly being able to become our own primary health care providers

because we can access now lab testing affordably without a doctor.

And they have partnered with Dr Mark Hyman,

who's a co-founder in this company, to give really detailed analytical reporting of what's going on with your data and how you can make changes in your own life that will actually improve these results over time. So the new

companies called Function Health and we talk in this episode about how things like

70% of medical decisions are made based on lab testing but the difference

between for instance, reference

ranges and optimal ranges and why some of you may have had the same experience I

did where only a couple of things were tested and then I was told they were

quote normal and I would argue that

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