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Barbell Shrugged

[Optimal vs. Normal Health] Why Normal Reference Ranges Will Not Lead You to Optimal Health w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged #676

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  1. The spectrum of health from sick, to not sick, and to optimal.
  2. Optimal is a word thrown around with ease in the healthy space. What does optimal health look and feel like?
  3. Why are the current blood markers in a normal range and not optimal?
  4. Where are normal reference ranges created?
  5. If you want to know optimal ranges, where do you find them?
  6. Why are optimal ranges a better reference point than normal ranges?
  7. Hope can you be labeled "healthy" by normal ranges but still have underlying issues that go undetected?

To learn more, please go to https://rapidhealthreport.com

Connect with our guests:

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Dan Garner on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sharks family, this week on Barbell Shrug, we are talking about normal versus optimal health.

0:07.3

And where we are going to take this is Dan Gowen who's going to walk us through.

0:11.3

A lot of the things that you're going to see in the normal reference ranges in your

0:15.3

blood work.

0:16.3

Like if you go get your standard physical done each year, there's so many things that

0:19.5

you could be missing because the reference ranges that your doctor is going to be looking

0:24.3

at are what are considered normal.

0:28.0

That's how what we're doing here.

0:29.2

Nobody in this, listening to this show and trying to get healthy and trying to perform

0:34.1

and feel their best is happy with the idea of normal.

0:39.0

We're all looking for optimal.

0:40.0

We want to be playing this game at the highest level possible.

0:43.1

And today's episode we're digging into a lot of the differences between normal reference

0:47.6

ranges and what is optimal and how that affects your health, the things you may be missing,

0:55.0

and a lot of examples, so get out your pen on a paper, take some notes, dig into this

0:59.8

thing, there's tons of good information and I think you're getting a lot out of this

1:04.7

just because the optimal ranges for so much of the things that you are focusing in on

1:09.7

your health journeys are not available except here on Barbell Shrug.

1:14.2

And of course friends, make sure you get over to RapidHealthReport.com where you can see

1:17.1

all of this in action and what it looks like.

1:19.7

Well, Dan is reading your labs, friends, it's going to the show.

1:25.3

Welcome to Barbell Shrug.

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