#330 The Lab Tests Every Woman With HPV Should Ask For!

Just because your labs came back normal doesn't mean that you're absolutely healthy.

And just because your blood work is in the reference range doesn't mean that everything's optimal.

It could actually help you to identify the reason why you're still testing positive for high risk HPV virus and or why you might be dealing with other health issues.

And in this video, I'm going to explain to you by giving you examples of lab work and exactly what I look for to show optimal levels of functioning versus what might be considered OK on a standard lab test.

So let's go into this starting with a CBC.

A CBC is a complete blood count, which is the most common blood test.

If you're going to have your blood drawn, that's the first test that's going to be done.

And it's to count your red blood cells and white blood cells.

oftentimes it's going to come back within the normal range, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything's okay.

We need to be looking at details like the MCV, MCH, and MCHC, which is going to show us about the size of your red blood cells, which can give us a lot of information about your nutrient status, whether you might be low in iron or B12, or folate, we can see that in the CBC even if you have enough red blood cells, for example.

And the next test that's commonly done is a complete metabolic panel.

This is to show us kidney function, liver function, and electrolyte balance, which is all important and could tell us if you need to go to the emergency room.

However, This is very often going to come back within range.

And that doesn't necessarily mean that your whole body is healthy.

It just happens to be something we can test in blood work to identify whether your kidneys or your liver is overwhelmed and stressed.

And even then we can take steps to help them to improve their function.

The next test that's often done is a lipid panel.

Now, a lot of people think that we're running a lipid panel to assess for heart disease risk.

However, research shows very clearly that lipids and cholesterol are not the best way to assess for heart disease risk.

And so even if your lipids are a little bit high or your LDL cholesterol is a little bit high, I'm still going to encourage you to do more.

If we want to know about heart disease risk, we need to do what's called an advanced lipid panel and be able to see more specific more accurate levels such as apolipoprotein B and lipoprotein A, as well as I like to look at inflammatory markers in the blood vessels such as LPPLA2 and myeloperoxidase to really help us understand inflammation in your blood vessels, which is actually the root cause of heart disease and plaque when cholesterol can stick to the inflammation in the blood vessels.

So it's not just about testing cholesterol.

That's not the whole story.

We need to go further than that if we really want to assess for heart disease risk.

including I would right away want to do a cardio CRP, which is C-reactive protein that assesses for inflammation in your whole body, but can really help us to identify if there is an issue with inflammation in your blood vessels that we can address by helping to lower inflammation in your whole body and your blood vessels.