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Physiology Friday: [Bloodwork] What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About Your Bloodwork w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash and Dan Garner Barbell Shrugged

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  • Why blood chemistry is trusted world wide
  • What tests should you get when doing blood work
  • What are hidden markers your doctor may not be seeing
  • How often should you get bloodwork
  • Performance, health, and longevity through bloodwork testing

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

Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back and we're going to be taking a deep dive into all the things that your doctor is not telling you about your blood work.

0:09.8

We call these things inside rapid health optimization performance reference ranges.

0:14.5

And the reason is because no point in your life have you ever set out to be average or normal.

0:20.6

So if you're one of those people

0:21.7

why are you going to go to your doctor and have them tell you about normal

0:24.9

reference ranges that's like the antithesis of all things performance is being

0:29.7

this idea of normal and those reference ranges are probably getting worse

0:33.8

because as we get more and more unhealthy as a society, the more normal becomes more

0:38.6

unhealthy. You're trying to be elite. You're trying to know what the four minute mile is and how

0:43.4

close you are to that. Not the average mile. And that's what we're going to be digging in today.

0:47.8

As always, friends, make sure you get over to Rapid Health Report. That is where you can check out

0:51.2

all the lab, lifestyle, performance, analysis, testing, programs that we are going to be offering you to optimize your health and performance

0:58.7

inside Rapid Health Optimization. You can find all of that over at Rapid Health Report.com. Friends,

1:05.0

let's get into the show.

1:07.5

Welcome to Barbel Shrugged. I'm Anders, Varner, Doug Larson. Dan Garner on the show again today.

1:13.1

And Travis Mash, hopefully will be joining us sometime in the middle if he buzzes in.

1:17.2

He's got things to do today. On today's episode, we're going to be talking about blood work,

1:21.0

the pros and cons of going to your primary care physician, whoever that is, getting your yearly blood work.

1:29.6

And what may show up on there and why that is a good thing to get done yearly, but also some of the pitfalls you may

1:35.0

be running into. And Dan, Doug and I just got all of our blood work read to you. And I can honestly

1:41.6

say that you brought up things that no physician has ever, ever told me.

1:48.0

I've had high cholesterol for the last like 10 years of my life and you're the only person

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