Hey, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. On this podcast,

we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and improve your

health and well-being. It's time to pull out your most recent blood work results because today,

I'm talking with Dr. Dick and Weatherby all about the secrets of your CBC,

or complete blood count, and CMP, or comprehensive metabolic panel, and more.

Dr. Weatherby is a naturopathic physician and leading expert in functional blood chemistry analysis.

He has authored six books on functional diagnostics and is the founder of Optimal

DX, an education and software company focusing on blood chemistry results and functional health

reports. In fact, I have been a huge fan and follower of Dr. Weatherby since 2002. That's when I

bought his first book. So it was an absolute pleasure talking with him today

about lab work that you've been told is normal, but on better review might actually provide

deeper meaning and clues that can get missed. Here's a clip from today's conversation.

So when you see a biomark of the level that is high or low, you have to kind of go back to what that biomarker is and the biochemistry and the metabolism that's associated with it.

So something like iron, which comes into our bodies exogenously in our food.

So the natural thing that says, oh, there's not enough on my diet.

Well, that's potentially true.

It could be that you have plenty in your diet, but you're just not absorbing it properly. That's true. Or you could be

situation where you've got an unknown infection. And bacteria loves iron. So that could be another

situation where you have tons of iron, but it's just being used up by pathogens in your body. Or here's another one. You could be bleeding internally. And that's

something, especially for men, so we very rarely see iron deficiency inemia in men. But if you do

see it in your male patients, you've got to start wondering about a potential slow bleed.

I mean, it could be a bleeding ulcer of some kind,

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