Physiology Friday: [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
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this Episode:
- The spectrum of health from sick, to not sick, and to optimal.
- Optimal is a word thrown around with ease in the healthy space. What does optimal health look and feel like?
- Why are the current blood markers in a normal range and not optimal?
- Where are normal reference ranges created?
- If you want to know optimal ranges, where do you find them?
- Why are optimal ranges a better reference point than normal ranges?
- Hope can you be labeled "healthy" by normal ranges but still have underlying issues that go undetected?
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back and today Dan Garner, my man. |
| 0:05.4 | He's going to be walking through why your blood panels are lying to you. |
| 0:08.6 | Really this gets into the heart of what we do here at Rapid Health Optimization inside Arte. |
| 0:12.4 | Is understanding what performance reference ranges look like. |
| 0:16.4 | You may see a whole bunch of greens on your blood work that you're getting back from your doctor. |
| 0:21.8 | But the reality is there's a higher level of reference range that you should be chasing so |
| 0:27.7 | that you can actually feel and perform your best. And that is what we are going to be digging |
| 0:31.4 | into today. As always, friends, make sure you get over to A-R-A-L-A-T-E-L-A-B.com. |
| 0:37.3 | That is, we can learn about all of the lab testing, analysis, program design, and coaching that we do inside Arte, the signature program inside Rapid Health Optimization. And you can access all of that over at Artea Lab.com. Friends, let's get into the show. Welcome to Barfell Shog. |
| 0:38.0 | Don't mean it is harder. |
| 0:38.9 | Doug Larson, coach Travis Matt. friends let's get into the show welcome to barb L shrugged david is harder |
| 0:56.9 | Doug Larson coach Travis masque damn barbara strugged we're going to be talking about testing |
| 1:01.2 | because honestly I'm going through like an insane amount of tests right now |
| 1:06.1 | Doug larsson and i started working with Andy galp and d'n dangarner. You probably can go back and listen to episode |
| 1:12.3 | something. It's called How to Increase Testosterone by 300%. It's like a two hour long show that we ran. |
| 1:19.1 | We talked about like tons of diagnostics and how they are able to get in and read a lot of |
| 1:25.4 | just what's going on under the hood of the car that is your |
| 1:29.3 | body. And we are in the middle of a 13, well, 12 tests sitting in front of me right now. |
| 1:38.0 | And whatever, however many tests they were taking in the first time I went to the Fibodontas |
| 1:42.2 | to get a bunch, to get like nine vials of blood taken out of me. And the first time I went to the phlebotomous to get a bunch to get like nine vials of |
| 1:45.0 | blood taken out of me. |
| 1:46.5 | And the reason we're doing this is really about the kind of like the highest level, |
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