52. Functional Lab Testing: The Missing Piece Behind Your Hormone Symptoms (The Hormone Disconnect Series Episode 3)

I recently started working with a client who we ran some functional lab tests on her.

She has PMOS.

She came to me with the diagnosis of PMOS and an elevated A1C, and she's been seen by her doctor over and over very regularly to help manage what is going on with her body.

And we ran some functional labs, and we were going over the results, and she literally said to me, "Why the fuck isn't my doctor running these tests?" And honestly, I didn't have a good answer for her because there really isn't one.

So I know that you are probably very familiar with traditional lab work that your doctor gets done.

Usually annually they'll run some labs, and they'll come back, and you'll get your lab results uploaded in the portal, and then you might see some things be elevated or lower than the normal range.

But yet you probably get the call that says, "Everything looks fine.

Everything looks normal." Well, here's the thing.

I want you to know that being outside of the normal range, it most of the time needs to be investigated a little bit further.

But I will tell you that the conventional lab works are designed to look for disease, not for dysfunction.

So there is this really gray area between what is considered healthy into which then you suddenly have a diagnosis.

So it's completely invisible in standard testing to this imaginary line that you trip over.

So that's why you can be told over and over and over again that your labs are completely normal.

That does not mean that you are well.

That does not mean that you feel good in your body, and it doesn't mean that you have something brewing.

It just is not diagnosable yet according to conventional ranges.

Now, when I look at labs from a functional standpoint, we're going to have optimal ranges, and we're gonna have our standard reference ranges.