Physiology Friday: [Blood Work] High Performance Blood Chemistry
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of Barbell Shrugged Dan Garner dives into how you can start to analyze your yearly bloodwork for performance.
Standard blood tests can be ordered around the globe, in every country, and are the gold standard for understanding basic health.
The normal reference ranges, however, are not giving you the answers you are looking for when it come to optimizing your health and performance.
In this episode you will learn:
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What's the mindset/philosophy of looking at bloodwork for performance if it's classically a health screen?
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Generally speaking, energy is what every performer needs regardless of their pursuit. How can one look at bloodwork to improve their energy levels?
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Electrolytes come on every panel, can these be used to look at hydration and performance?
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You've talked a bunch about the immune system in past podcasts so I'm wondering what a basic blood panel can tell us about the current state of our immunity?
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What general recommendations do you have in terms of preparation so when someone gets their blood draw they can ensure it's accurate?
To learn more, please visit https://rapidhealthoptimization.com to see Dr. Andy Galpin and Dan Garner do a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug Family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back. |
| 0:05.0 | We're hanging out with the main homie, Dan Garner, and we're going to be talking about high |
| 0:08.5 | performance blood work, which is what we do here at Rabbit Hub optimization. |
| 0:12.9 | If you've ever gone to your doctor, gotten your yearly annual physical, they take the blood, |
| 0:19.2 | you look at the markers and you realize there's only like 42 of them |
| 0:22.1 | and then they, whether the markers are in range, out of range, they just go, yeah, you're good. |
| 0:28.3 | And you've been completely frustrated. You're going to love this episode because this is what we do. |
| 0:32.2 | We got to actually be precise in the reference ranges. We need to understand what we should |
| 0:36.4 | actually be chasing and what those |
| 0:38.1 | numbers really mean to your health history, where your health is headed, and how you can start |
| 0:43.0 | to fix those biomarkers. As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
| 0:48.0 | If you would like to learn more about the performance testing, lab analysis, program design, |
| 0:54.8 | all the pieces that we are going to be providing for you |
| 0:57.6 | inside Rapid Health Optimization. |
| 0:59.7 | Get over to Rapid HealthReport.com. |
| 1:01.8 | You can schedule a call with me. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to get you set up. |
| 1:05.4 | We're going to optimize your health performance. |
| 1:07.0 | You can access all of that over at rapidhealthreport.com. |
| 1:09.9 | Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 1:13.3 | Welcome to Barb Lstrug. I'm Anders Warner. Doug Larson, the samurai of blood work. |
| 1:18.6 | Dan Garner. I've been trying, I watch, I listen to this podcast, the all-end podcast. They have the greatest, like, the longest, like, the longest things for each person. It takes them, like, five minutes to get through these, like, things for each person. |
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