Dr. Mark Hyman

What about nutrients?

Doctors don't check your nutritional status.

Now, what is the point of nutrients anyway?

I mean, there's 37 billion trillion chemical reactions in your body every second.

Every single one of those chemical reactions, because you've got about 40 trillion cells, every single one of those chemical reactions needs a helper, an enzyme,

to convert one molecule to the next.

And every enzyme needs a helper.

And those helpers are vitamins and minerals.

So they literally grease the wheels of your metabolic system in such a profound way that one third of our entire DNA codes for enzymes.

And those enzymes need these nutrients and they all need different amounts.

So getting the right nutrient status for you is really important.

And that's why we do a deep dive on nutrients.

We look at vitamin D, we look at zinc, magnesium, iron studies, omega-3s, folate, B12,

minerals, lots more.

We can check all kinds of things.

But you really want to get a good basic picture.

We do that on the basic function panel, but there's also add-ons where you can do much, much more.

And you want to track it over time because it changes and your needs change.

But getting your nutrient levels optimized is so important.

We also look at things that can relate to abnormal gut function.