Hello, it's episode three hundred and fifty six of the keto diet podcast today's are really exciting episode

And I hope it becomes one of our most popular. I'm sure you have friends that could also benefit from this information

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We're talking about functional blood chemistry and you might be like functional blood chemistry

What a that why does that even how would that even make a difference for me well in episode three hundred and twenty six

Way way back in August I had my friend Michael Rutherford on the show and we were talking about thyroid test results

And what they actually mean and he and I recorded that episode probably may of that year and after the episode

I was like bro, I need to learn what you do. This is fantastic. What is it that you do and he said I do functional blood chemistry

And that started off a year now of work in this space and so if you haven't listed

In the episode I highly recommend going back and listening to it again. That was episode three hundred and twenty six

And so functional blood chemistry is the art of looking for imbalances within regular blood labs

And I say art because it really does get quite complicated and it's impossible that in this short episode

You're going to know everything I've been studying this now for a year pretty solid and I'm still uncovering things and patterns

I think the beauty that really locked me into this work is that not one marker tells us or it gives us a good indication of what's going on

There are multiple layered patterns that tell us what could be going on with your body and if you are the type of person

That's dealt with health issues and you go to your doctor and the doctor pulls basic labs and they look at your labs

And they're like yep everything looks fine you're good and you're like I'm so very far from good

That was really my experience over the last 15 years of looking at my health and trying to better things

And I'd go into doctors and they'd say everything looks fine and this is part of aging and I'm like no there's actually something wrong with me

It wasn't until December of 2020 that I randomly did a GI map test with a dietician and she said you have a parasite

And I was like a pair of what a what and this really fueled my interest in figuring out okay

Well, if I could have a parasite what else could my labs not be picking up on and then that's when I was introduced a functional blood chemistry

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