traditional lab testing, it basically goes like this, disease, normal disease. So if it's too

low, that's a disease, in the middle of your normal, too high disease. Whereas a functional

medicine lens, the spectrum is a little bit more varied. So there's out of range, there's

malfunction. We're screening for imbalances. We're looking for more tighter ranges, reference

ranges, more optimal ranges, because we're really trying to screen for that optimal health.

So it's important to understand that traditional reference ranges for conventional blood work

don't always represent optimal health.

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What labs should you ask your doctor for? We're going to talk about basic blood work and a little bit beyond in today's episode. I'm going to try to make this one a quick and dirty. I have a team

meeting in exactly 40 minutes. So let's see if I can pull this one off. My mom,

going to shout out Sharebear, recently asked me this question. She's like, I'm going to my doctor

just for annual, like typical standard issue lab work, routine blood work. What should I make

sure he tests for? And I thought this was such a great question and such a great

episode to bring to the show. Today we're going to pull it back to the basics. I'm going to use

plain speak as much as possible here. So this is not going to be a practitioner level episode.

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