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(0:00) Introduction to Health Decoded and the myth about normal labs (2:23) Why normal labs don't mean optimal health and modern medicine's limitations (4:21) Functional vs. conventional medicine and the importance of proactive health (6:40) Understanding glucose levels and the smoldering phase of disease (9:46) Financial aspects of healthcare and patient empowerment (12:38) Sponsor: Authentic Nutrition (14:05) Key functional ranges: TSH, blood sugar, inflammation, and liver function (20:05) Alessi Total Care Blood Panel and advanced testing options (23:35) Emphasizing personalized health plans and health ownership (26:25) Exclusive listener discounts and call to action (27:35) Closing remarks from Dr. Alessi and Matt Tack00:00:00
Let's start by breaking a myth that's really hurting a lot of people.
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Most patients are going to walk out of their doctor's office relieved when they hear the
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words normal.
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Your labs are normal.
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But the truth is normal is not optimal.
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Now, just means you're not sick enough yet to qualify for a diagnosis, which then in turn
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qualifies you for some type of intervention.
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Welcome to Health Decode, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Welcome to the show.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I am your host, doctor Alessi.
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I'm excited to have you with me today.
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I'm gonna really dig in on this one and get to a topic that a lot of people are kind of hung
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up on right now.
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And I think there's a lot of back and forth, things you're seeing online, maybe things
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you're hearing from your doctor or from friends and family.
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And I just want to cut through the fluff, cut through the nonsense and ultimately tell you
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guys the truth.
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And ultimately dig into this topic today of why your blood work is lying to you.
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And so what we're going to break down, we're basically going go through four segments here.
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Number one, why normal, I'm air quoting normal labs don't mean optimal health.
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Segment two, the danger of waiting until you're sick.
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Segment three, the functional ranges that actually matter.
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And then segment four, how to get the right labs and then what to do with them, take
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action.
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So, you know, if you've ever been to your doctor, you've been told that your labs are
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normal, but you still don't feel well, this episode is for you because here's the truth,
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you're not healthy.
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You're just not sick enough yet.
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And so modern medicine is designed to wait until there is a diagnosable disease, illness,
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pain, whatever it may be, to take action.
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So we're all about proactive health, We're all about getting ahead of the problem.
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And that's what we're educating on here today is how can you take control, become your own
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doctor, and ultimately make the best decisions for your health and your family's health.
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So let's just get right into it.
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You know, again, why having air quote normal labs don't mean optimal health?
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Well, you know, let's start by breaking a myth that's really hurting a lot of people.
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Most patients are going to walk out of their doctor's office relieved when they hear the
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words normal.
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Your labs are normal.
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But the truth is normal is not optimal.
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Now, just means you're not sick enough yet to qualify for a diagnosis, which then in turn
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qualifies you for some type of intervention, often medication, injections, surgical possibly
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if it's a joint related issue.
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And that's just a whole downstream of follow ups and doctor's visits that most people go
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through with a ton of frustration.
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Now, just to iterate real quick, we are not anti medicine, we're not anti medical doctors.
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We just are anti the wrong thing at the wrong time.
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And we're all about the patient first, the patient needs to be looked at as a whole and
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really understand like what is the pathophysiology causing said illness, disease
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or symptom, right?
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If it's not full blown yet.
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And so, you know, the normal ranges that doctors use and test for, they're not based on
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what's healthy.
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They are based on a statistical average of people who are getting blood work.
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That's it.
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And that population includes a ton of people who are overweight, inflamed, diabetic, or
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already sick and unhealthy.
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And so these reference ranges are not targets, they're statistics.
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For example, take a marker like TSH, that's thyroid stimulating hormone.
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Most labs will say the normal range is somewhere between zero point four and four
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point five.
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But in functional medicine, we know the sweet spot where people actually feel good is around
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one to 2.5.
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When you get outside of that tighter window and more into the outsides, the highs and lows of
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that reference range, people tend to have symptoms.
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But again, in modern medicine, if it's within reference range, they're not going to diagnose
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you.
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And so that's not just an opinion of ours, that's data.
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A 2022 review in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology found that patients with TSH
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levels in the high normal range above 2.5 were significantly more likely to experience
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fatigue, heat gain, and depressive symptoms.
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Now here's another one, fasting glucose.
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This one we talk about all the time because metabolic health is so critical.
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Doctors will tell you, Hey, anything under a 100 is fine, but 99 isn't fine.
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That is the cliff.
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That's what we call the metabolic cliff.
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Multiple studies show that people with fasting glucose above 90 are at an increased risk for
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insulin resistance, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease even before a diagnosis
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of prediabetes.
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In a twenty twenty article from Diabetes Care, researchers showed that even glucose levels in
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the upper 80s were predictive of long term metabolic dysfunction.
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The upper 80s, again, that's what most docs would consider okay, healthy, right?
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Normal.
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So, one more and I'm going to use some statistics here as well.
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Let's look at vitamin D.
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Chronically, low levels in this country.
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And so the normal lab range starts at around thirty nanograms per milliliter, but optimal
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function for immunity, energy, and inflammation actually happens closer to like 60 between
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sixty and eighty.
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So if you're walking around with a 31 and you're told, Oh, you're within range.
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You're fine.
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It's missing the point entirely because here's the bigger issue.
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Again, conventional medicine waits until you're diagnosable, until your labs are basically
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screaming disease.
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But functional medicine is about spotting those whispers, the subtle dysfunction before it
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becomes disease.
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Because that's when we can actually intervene, reverse, and restore.
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And so the takeaway here is that you're not broken, you're just being measured by a broken
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system.
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We need to stop measuring the way that we have been and start focusing on everything that goes
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into that person that we're looking at and talking about.
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And so let's get into the next piece here, the danger really of waiting until you are sick.
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And so it's often a lot harder to fix a problem when it's been going on for a long time.
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See this all the time with our joint pain patients who come into the clinic.
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Yeah, I felt the pain start about ten years ago and it wasn't too bad.
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So I kind of just let it go.
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Now, by the time they've come in and actually take an action to get some x rays or some type
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of evaluation, the degenerative arthritic process has gone so far down that it's often a
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lot more difficult to fix if we even can help the patient at that point.
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So again, it's always easier to fix the leak at the start.
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And so, you know, let's get real about the way that conventional medicine works.
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This is the way that the system was designed is to manage disease.
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There is a lot of money in managing disease because it doesn't fix the problem, right?
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If somebody had to come out to your house every day and you had to pay them to patch a leak,
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they're going to keep charging you, charging you, charging you.
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What if they just fix that leak?
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Right?
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And so that's the caveat there between functional medicine and conventional medicine.
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Conventional medicine is highly reactive.
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It waits until the house is burning down before you reach for the fire hose.
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And so here's kind of the playbook, right?
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If we're talking about an example, like blood sugar dysfunction and diabetes, wait until your
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A1C hits 6.5.
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Okay.
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Now you're a diabetic.
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Wait until your TSH hits five point zero.
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Okay.
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Now you qualify for Synthroid.
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Wait until your cholesterol is through the roof.
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Okay, here, now it's time for a stat.
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But let me ask you something and really think about this.
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What happened in the five to ten years before that diagnosis?
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Well, your body was talking and nobody was listening, right?
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Oh, it's okay, let's just wait until this gets worse.
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Or, follow-up in six months, let's see if this takes a downturn and becomes something we need
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to take action on.
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Diseases don't strike overnight.
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That's just not how they work.
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It builds slowly, silently, systematically.
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And your labs don't jump from perfect to pathological in a week.
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There is a decade long window, what we call a smoldering phase where dysfunction is building.
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But it doesn't look bad enough on paper to sound the alarm yet.
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So if you're told you're fine, even when your fasting glucose has crept up into the nineties,
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your TSH level has edged up into the upper fours, your HDL is dropping and triglycerides
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are climbing, right?
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But you're exhausted, you're gaining weight and you're told you're normal.
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Everything looks fine, just keep doing what you're doing is what you're told.
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There's a term for that in psychotherapy.
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It's called gaslighting.
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And that's literally what's going on.
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I mean, we do it to our kids all the time.
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They fall down, Oh, you're fine.
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They don't look fine.
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They just fell, right?
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They don't feel fine.
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And so when someone tells you you're fine when you're not, it's gaslighting you.
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It's not really helping you or managing anything.
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It's lazy medicine.
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There was a 2019 study in BMJ Open Journal that revealed that over sixty percent of patients
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with early symptoms of chronic disease were dismissed as normal by their primary care
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provider in the twelve months prior to their diagnosis.
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That means a whole year went by where nothing was done even though they were told they were
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normal and that disease was coming.
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It's basically like, Hey, wait around another year feeling like crap and then let's do
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something.
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Again, that's not healthcare.
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That's healthcare lag.
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And that's what we are upturning with what we do in our clinics and our systems.
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We see this all the time.
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You know, patients who have been dismissed for years, they've seen all these different
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doctors, they've had a million different tests, yet the symptoms are chalked up as, Oh, you're
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just getting older.
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Oh, you're just stressed.
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Oh, you just have anxiety.
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And then they're given drugs to mask the symptoms.
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Why?
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Because the system only acts when you're sick enough to code for billing.
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I keep using the word system because that's what it is.
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The insurance company, the medical system, it is highly related and connected and everybody
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at the top is making money on you staying sick.
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And so in functional medicine, we do it differently.
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We're not waiting for the fire.
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We act when there's smoke, right?
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Something's starting to get a little hot.
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We're going to jump on that.
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And we catch the trends.
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We spot the dysfunction before it becomes disease.
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That's what we call root cause healthcare.
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And frankly, that's what you deserve and that's what everyone should be doing.
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That's how the medical system should be.
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We wouldn't have hospitals and doctor's offices booked months in advance for something that
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could have been prevented years ago.
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And so, you know, by the time conventional labs catch your issue, the damage is already done.
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So we're here to catch that decline before it becomes a disaster.
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Now back to the episode.
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Alright.
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Welcome back.
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Let's talk now about the functional ranges that actually matter and what to look for.
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So if normal ranges that we just discussed aren't cutting it, what do we look for then in
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functional medicine?
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We use what are called functional ranges.
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Those are the zones where your body actually performs at its best.
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Not just not diseased, but actually vibrant, energetic, metabolically healthy.
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So let's walk through some of, you know, a few of the more important ones that we're going to
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look for and we actually utilize within our total care program at Alessi Functional Health.
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Number one, one of the biggest that gets misdiagnosed and missed is what we discussed
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earlier, TSH.
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And so most doctors are going to run a TSH hormone test and they consider anything from
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0.4 to 4.5 normal.
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But again, that's not optimal, that's statistical.
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What is the functional range for TSH?
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Somewhere between one and two point five.
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Now notice that's a much smaller range.
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People feel best in that zone.
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That's stats based on data.
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And outside of it, we often see the symptoms creep in, fatigue, brain fog, metabolism
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issues, even if that conventional range is reported as normal.
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We also then take it a step further.
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We're going to look at free T3 and free T4 to see what your body actually has bioavailable to
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use.
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We're going to look at reverse T3.
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That's basically the metabolic brake pedal that when it's too high can lead to block
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metabolism.
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Then we're going to look at TPO and TG antibodies.
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These detect Hashimoto's before it takes over.
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That's an autoimmune condition.
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Journal of Thyroid Research, a study done in 2020 showed that forty percent of patients with
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normal TSH still had clinical hypothyroid symptoms and improved with treatment based on
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functional labs.
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So again, that's a big number, forty percent.
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Now, next thing we're definitely going to focus on is blood sugar.
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Glucose and insulin.
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Again, conventional medicine says fasting glucose up to 99 is fine or normal.
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An A1C up to 5.6% is non diabetic.
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But here's the problem, at 90 to 99 insulin resistance has already begun.
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Insulin resistance is the gateway to weight gain, fatigue, hormonal disorders, heart
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disease and even cognitive decline.
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Alzheimer's disease is now widely known as type three diabetes.
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However, it starts years before any symptoms.
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So what's the fasting range we want to look for for fasting glucose?
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I apologize.
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What is the functional range we want to look for for fasting glucose?
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Somewhere between 75 to 89.
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Even better, we're going to take it a step further again and test fasting insulin, which
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most doctors are going to ignore.
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If your insulin is creeping above seven to eight, your metabolism is already under stress.
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And so the American Journal of Cardiology in 2017 confirmed that fasting insulin is a
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stronger early predictor of cardiovascular disease than fasting glucose or A1C.
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Now this is a test that's not even being run.
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So that goes to show you.
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Now what's next on the list?
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Inflammation and immune function.
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So conventional testing for inflammation highly misses the mark.
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They really only flag things like CRP, which is C reactive protein or ESR, which is your
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erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
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And if they're sky high, obviously going to look at those.
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But low grade chronic inflammation is the root cause of so many things like autoimmunity,
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pain, fatigue, hormone or gut dysfunction.
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And so the functional range of CRP is less than point five.
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Even like a one to two is a red flag in our clinic.
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We're also going to test things like homocysteine which is linked to methylation and
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detox issues as well as cardiovascular risk.
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We're going to check ferritin.
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If it's too high, that could be hidden inflammation, which is often missed.
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And then white blood cell trends.
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Low to normal often signals immune suppression from stress.
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We also run a very, very indicative cardiovascular focused inflammation panel that
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many doctors are not going to look at.
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Honestly, if you told a medical doctor, they probably don't even know what it means.
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We look for three things, a PLA C, which is a plaquing score, an MPO, which is
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myeloperoxidase, it's an enzyme that your heart and your coronary arteries produce when under
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stress or inflammation.
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And then oxidized LDL.
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Is the LDL in circulation being oxidized and becoming highly reactive?
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If those, one of those three things are high, that is a red flag.
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If all three are high, it's immediate action.
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Now, the next thing we would look for is liver function.
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So you'd be surprised how many people walk around with early liver stress without a
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diagnosis.
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The conventional ranges of ALT and AST, which are your liver enzymes.
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The conventional range goes up to about 40 to 50 depending on the lab.
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The functional range that we want to see is somewhere between 10 to 26.
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Anything higher than that, it is a sign of high toxin load, fatty liver, blood sugar issues,
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possibly over medication or leaky gut.
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And remember, the liver is the MVP of hormone balance and detox, so you cannot ignore it.
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That would be like the filter, the air filter in your car not being clean.
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So why do these functional ranges matter?
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Because number one, they allow us to catch early dysfunction before it is full blown
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disease.
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We can then create custom protocols based on the individual and we can monitor progress in
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real time with advanced lab testing.
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And so it's also going to give you some peace of mind that you're not crazy.
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You're not living with symptoms that are just, again, air quote normal and there is something
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going on, it's early dysfunction.
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And so most people who feel terrible and have labs that are conventionally known as normal,
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their body is starting to functionally fail.
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So when you use the wrong map, it's a great analogy, when you use the wrong map, you get
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lost.
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And most doctors are using a map that was drawn by insurance companies, not physiologists,
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right?
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And so we don't guess, we really measure and go into detail.
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You can ask any of our patients how much detail we go into on our testing.
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Now, how do you get the right labs and then what do you do with them?
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All right, so, you know, again, how do we do it differently and what can you do right now?
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Again, any of this is resonating with you and it's been going on for some time, that's far
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too long.
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What can you do right now to take action?
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Number one, test, right?
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Stop guessing.
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Stop wondering if it's going to go away.
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Test it.
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In functional medicine, we don't wait until things are broken.
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We test your entire physiological terrain so we can catch the dysfunction early and fix it
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before it becomes a disease.
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So the Alessi Total Care Blood Panel, this is a custom panel that we created, looks at all
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these things and even some more.
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So it's going to look at a complete thyroid panel.
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Everything we talked about earlier, TSH, free T3, T4, reverse T3 antibodies.
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We're going to look at a full blood sugar and insulin panel, fasting glucose, insulin, A1C,
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HOMAIR, which is a insulin resistance score.
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We're going to look at inflammation, CRP, homocysteine, ferritin, the cardiac
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inflammation markers I discussed.
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We're going to look at full lipids and we go even deeper.
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We want to see if there's oxidation, hormones, basically an entire hormone panel.
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Then we're going to look at nutrient levels, B12, folate, magnesium, zinc, vitamin D, all of
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those.
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And so we're basically casting the broadest net to take a proactive approach to see if there's
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anything we can catch early.
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Now, we can even add advanced testing when needed.
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Someone comes in with some type of gut symptom or dysfunction, we can do a GI map, so stool
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test.
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An organic acids test to see if the body is detoxing, if there's any overgrowth of
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bacteria, fungus, yeast, and how's the mitochondria.
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We can do a toxin load test to see if there's heavy metals, mold toxins, or BPA impairments.
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And one of the coolest ones is a food sensitivity test.
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A lot of times patients come in, they have high inflammation, they don't know why.
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We run a food sensitivity test and we see that they're highly reactive or having a reaction to
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a food that they're eating commonly and not really even noticing that it's triggering them.
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Because the difference, little tangent here between a food allergy and a food sensitivity
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is that a food allergy you can die from.
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You eat a food that you're allergic to, your body goes into full blown anaphylaxis, you
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could die or have severe complications.
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Food sensitivities are harder to catch because oftentimes the symptoms don't trigger until
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one, maybe two days later, at which point you've probably eaten another five, six meals.
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So then you have sensitivities on top of other sensitivities.
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You're not sure what foods causing it because you're eating diverse and the eczema, the gut
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issues, the brain fog, the inflammation, you don't know where it's coming from.
00:23:23
And so we're not over testing, right?
00:23:25
We are just running what is necessary.
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And so we're always going to do a targeted investigation.
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We're gonna go based on your story, your symptoms, your goals, what have you tried
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before?
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And we're going to build a custom, targeted investigation based on.
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Then step two is you're going to build a personalized map.
00:23:42
Once we get the data, we don't just throw a bunch of medicine at numbers, right?
00:23:46
Or yeah.
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And we don't just throw a bunch of supplements at it either, or else we're just doing the same
00:23:49
thing with a natural spin.
00:23:51
So we reverse engineer your health from the inside out, right?
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What are the root causes?
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Are you overstressed?
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Right?
00:23:57
Is your lifestyle causing havoc on your body?
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Are there toxins in your home or your environment?
00:24:03
Do you have gut issues or hormone issues?
00:24:06
Then we support the system.
00:24:08
So the nervous system, the mitochondria, we detoxify the body.
00:24:12
And then we talk about lifestyle alignment, nutrition, sleep, movement, mindset, the four
00:24:18
big ones.
00:24:19
We don't just throw a bunch of supplements at the wall, hoping something's going to work,
00:24:23
taking the same approach as Western medicine.
00:24:25
We use custom protocols based on your labs, your biology and your lifestyle most
00:24:30
importantly.
00:24:31
Not going to recommend something to somebody when it's going to add more stress to their
00:24:36
lifestyle, then it's just becoming a hindrance.
00:24:39
So we work within the confines of what you can do to an extent, right?
00:24:43
Like we're not going to be lazy either.
00:24:45
And so step three, we work with the team that gets it.
00:24:48
Most primary care doctors don't have the time, the tools, or really the training to interpret
00:24:53
functional labs, it does take time.
00:24:56
And so, we're very diligent about taking that time.
00:25:00
We often have two or three doctors looking at the data of your tests, comparing things and
00:25:06
giving their thoughts before we come up with a program.
00:25:09
And so with Total Care, which is our flagship, primary care functional medicine program, you
00:25:16
get advanced labs, you get functional medicine approach, you get one on one coaching, the
00:25:20
data, the deep dive data, and the roadmap, custom roadmap to get you back to optimal
00:25:26
health.
00:25:27
And so our goal is not just healthcare.
00:25:29
Our goal is health ownership because ideally if you can take responsibility for your health and
00:25:35
you can take action, then we can help you.
00:25:38
If someone's not ready to take action or take ownership that their health is really their
00:25:42
responsibility first, we can't help you because I can't care more about your health than you
00:25:46
do.
00:25:47
And so that's the firm but loving approach that we take at Alessi Functional Health.
00:25:51
You deserve more than just vague answers.
00:25:53
You deserve some clarity, strategy, and really someone who will ask better questions.
00:25:58
So if your body's whispering or it has those telltale signs starting, don't wait for full
00:26:03
blown dysfunction.
00:26:04
Get testing, read between the lines and take back your health.
00:26:09
And so if you would like, in closing here, if you would like to learn more about how we can
00:26:13
help diagnose, reverse and heal chronic disease within our functional medicine programs?
00:26:19
Go to alessifunctionalhealth.com, schedule a consultation with me or one of our other
00:26:24
providers.
00:26:25
Let's create a personalized plan for lifelong health.
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