[Blood Work] High Performance Blood Chemistry w/ Dan Garner, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson #705
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of Barbell Shrugged Dan Garner dives into how you can start to analyze your yearly bloodwork for performance.
Standard blood tests can be ordered around the globe, in every country, and are the gold standard for understanding basic health.
The normal reference ranges, however, are not giving you the answers you are looking for when it come to optimizing your health and performance.
In this episode you will learn:
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What's the mindset/philosophy of looking at bloodwork for performance if it's classically a health screen?
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Generally speaking, energy is what every performer needs regardless of their pursuit. How can one look at bloodwork to improve their energy levels?
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Electrolytes come on every panel, can these be used to look at hydration and performance?
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You've talked a bunch about the immune system in past podcasts so I'm wondering what a basic blood panel can tell us about the current state of our immunity?
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What general recommendations do you have in terms of preparation so when someone gets their blood draw they can ensure it's accurate?
To learn more, please visit rapidhealthreport.com to see Dr. Andy Galpin and Dan Garner do a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharged family this week on Barbal Shrud. |
| 0:02.3 | Dan Garner is back on the show and we are talking about high performance |
| 0:05.4 | blood chemistry. |
| 0:06.4 | And what does that actually mean? |
| 0:08.3 | But when you go get your physical, assuming you get a physical, |
| 0:10.6 | that's a big assumption at this stage of the state of the |
| 0:16.4 | industry. We could say I don't think I've gotten a physical. The last time I |
| 0:19.6 | went and got a physical they asked me to do a leg raise and I went yeah I think this is my last |
| 0:23.3 | one but if you are going and getting a physical and they go and run your blood work and |
| 0:27.6 | then they call you back two days later you go hey everything's normal good to go and |
| 0:30.8 | you go well hold on a second what if my goal isn't to be normal well then we |
| 0:35.3 | have a real question to ask in today's episode you're going to be able to start to |
| 0:38.2 | understand some of the markers why blood panels are the way they are. Currently what normal ranges actually mean and then |
| 0:46.5 | how do you start to look at your blood chemistry as a performance athlete or somebody that |
| 0:50.8 | cares about living living in a more optimal way than what you would |
| 0:55.0 | consider to be the average of all of the human beings walking on this planet |
| 0:59.2 | because most likely if you are listening to this show you're not trying to be just normal. |
| 1:04.0 | You're trying to be a little bit better than normal. |
| 1:06.0 | You're trying to actually see how far you can push yourself and how well and healthy |
| 1:10.0 | you can live, not just the longevity side of this thing or the quantity of life, |
| 1:15.4 | but the quality that you're going to experience it, how well you can lift weights, |
| 1:18.8 | how in shape you can be, how healthy you can be, how that's going to impact your life in a positive manner. |
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