Hello, welcome back. I'm your host Evan Brand. Thanks for joining me. How you doing? I hope you're doing good. I just got done with a big project. I had to put a bunch of metal teapost and netting around my apple trees and I have peach trees and I have pear trees because they started growing really, really well. And I thought, oh, wow, I guess

the deer don't care about these fresh leaves. And then I wake up one morning and all the leaves

are gone. They had a huge party and they left their footprints in the dirt nearby, which is proof

that they were there, those little sneaky varmets. So what can you do? I think deer are cute too, but not when they eat your apple trees.

So I had to use a T-post driver, which is kind of like a CrossFit workout, really. You just

have to bang these poles down into the dirt, and then you have to put netting around them

and zip tie it on it was fun brought my grandfather

out for the project soaked up the sunshine summer is in full swing we just skipped right over spring

and we're headed straight into summer i don't know what it's like where you are but that's the deal here

so thanks for joining me today we're going to chat with my buddy dr jay dr justin marcojani

and we're chatting about my recent finding. And you'll hear me

say the same thing at the end of this podcast, but I kind of poo-poohed blood work for a while

because I'm so used to getting the conventional standard CBC and other generic blood work that

most practitioners run on their clients and then they send it over to me to when we set up a call.

And most blood work does not reveal anything significant unless you have a major disease going on but if you're subclinical meaning something's not right with you but you don't really know what's going on most of the time the blood doesn't change much which is why I've created several custom blood panels that I run on my

clients and we just create a requisition form we send you to the local lab down the street from

your house or near your town and then we get custom blood work and these are some of the

investigative tools that many people need to use that are not using things like ferretin and iron

saturation and some of these

more specific biomarkers so we're going to chat all about that here in just a minute i'll give you

my findings because i had some symptoms going on i thought what the heck everything else is

checked out on the functional medicine piece let's dive into blood so you can't poo poo blood

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