Dr. Mark Hyman

It was low.

I got a blood transfusion.

You know, that's, that's good.

It's helpful.

Uh, you can see if you have an infection, high white count, but you have to be kind of sick, really sick.

It doesn't really look for chronic illness.

Uh, your basic metabolic panel is your

blood sugar, electrolytes, liver, kidneys.

I mean, those are really things that are only abnormal.

Your calcium, these are abnormal when you're really sick.

Cholesterol, they check for sure, but again, the way they check it is really outdated and almost meaningless.

That's the one kind of thing they're looking at in the screening, but it's basically a reaction.

If you have high cholesterol, take a statin, which is not always the right answer.

So a lot of things also that are symptoms that get missed are

You know, have clues in your lab tests, right?

So fatigue, it could be so many things that are causing that.

It could be thyroid.

It could be autoimmune disease.

It could be low B vitamins.

It could be low vitamin D. A brain fog, same thing.