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What's going on everybody? We're back with the real bodybuilding podcast. This is episode 133 and I'm here with Mr. Dan Garner performance lab analyst. How are you sir? I'm doing great man. Thanks so much for having me on. Well it's a I message you a while back to have you on and we kind of went back and forth with dates and then I got sick and then finally were able to make it happen and I think one of the things you said that was important

and this happened after I message you the first time was Sean Rodin passed and you said I think now is a great time to do this

and I think so too I think we can give people a lot of good information. Can you tell people a little bit about what a performance lab analyst does?

Sure. So what I do is essentially that. I'm looking at labs for the sake of health and performance.

I'm not looking at labs just to see if someone's already sick.

So I like to describe it as I look at physiology before it becomes pathology because so many problems that not just bodybuilders but athletes and people in general a lot of what they run into is very predictable based on if things are trending high or trending low or if there are ratios involved that people just simply don't know about and And sometimes, like, there is a major art

behind viewing labs as well,

and this is something we can get really, really deep into.

The fact that a lot of people simply

don't know what they're looking at.

They don't give how much credit is deserved to the complication

behind something such as endocrinology, behind blood chemistry,

behind keeping somebody who's 300. such as endocrinology, behind

keeping somebody who's 300 pounds as healthy as possible.

These things are extremely nuanced, extremely context specific.

So what I do is I'll just I'll just tell you right off the bat. I look at absolutely everything when I take on someone new. So what I do is not for everybody because I look at hair, urine, saliva, stool, and blood when I make a meal plan or when I'm tracking somebody's health from a year to year or month to month basis depending on what's going on. So I'm looking at absolutely everything to optimize health and the funny thing is when you optimize health you do optimize performance.

So a lot of people try to separate the conversations,

but you can't really mention one without the other

because an unhealthy body is not going to adapt to stressors.

And if you're not adapting to stressors, you're not going to adapt to your training.

So I've always said the body will adapt to the degree that it is healthy.

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