Dr. Mark Hyman

weight gain, you know, you're struggling with weight gain.

Why?

I mean, you may have normal blood sugar, but your insulin levels might be sky high, or you might have depression or mood changes, but you might have very low folate or B12, which may be showing up through our advanced testing of homocysteine and methylmalonic acid, which are the better tests to check for B12 and folate.

Or maybe you have low omega-3 fats, which we check, and that can lead to, obviously, depression if you have low omega-3.

So joint pain, same thing.

Maybe you have gluten sensitivity, maybe you

We have a high CRP that's showing you have an autoimmune disease or an autoimmune marker.

Skin issues, also same thing.

There's so many things that we can test.

You might have dairy allergy, you might have gluten issues, you might have insulin resistance if you have acne, which we can tell.

So all these things that seem quote normal actually have things that we can find on your lab tests and then help you fix.

Now, thyroid is a great example.

Most doctors don't check thyroid.

as a routine screening test, if they do, they only check one out of five important tests that you need to look at your thyroid.

Five.

They only do one.

And it's called TSH.

And that can be, quote, normal, but the range there is 0.5 to 5.

Now, that's not actually good because according to the American College of Endocrinology, it should be anything over three and a half should be considered a slow thyroid.

But again, most doctors don't treat that, don't look at it.