Dr. Mark Hyman

If you go to 100 to 126, that's diabetes, 126 is diabetes, but it's a continuum of dysfunction.

And when you fix your metabolic health,

It improves everything, your energy, your mood, longevity.

It's the key to longevity is understanding what's going on with your metabolic health.

And if you have insulin resistance, you might have belly fat and weight gain, sugar cravings, you might feel crashes up and down with your energy after meals, like hypoglycemic, you might have brain fog, you're tired, and you might have many, many other symptoms too, like diseases, but those are symptoms that are common and often people just dismiss those.

But when you look at the full function health

It includes all this metabolic testing we're talking about, but also includes, and we'll talk about in a minute, special cholesterol testing that most doctors don't do that has been around for about 40 years, but still hasn't been adopted because it takes decades for things that are innovations to get into medicine.

The next big category we want to look at is inflammation because inflammation, again, is...

one of the biggest drivers of chronic illness.

And the major cause is metabolic dysfunction, which is related to blood sugar, but there are other causes.

When we look at your inflammation level, something called HSCRP,

which is a cytokine or a molecule the liver makes that is related to inflammation.

We look at ferritin, which can be an iron storage marker, but if it's high, it also is an inflammation marker.

We also look at your blood count and your white count and your white cells, and all those tell a lot of a story about what's going on with your immune system and inflammation.

So we can tell if there's low-grade inflammation, and this underlies most chronic conditions.

So when you identify inflammation early, you can find out the cause.

What is the cause?

It can be toxins, poor diet, stress,

Oligins, you know, microbes changing your microbiome.

But this creates this quiet, silent, deadly killer of inflammation.