Dr. Mark Hyman

Things like iron absorption may be low, B12 may be low because of absorption issues.

You might have inflammation related to gut stuff.

You have liver functions that might be elevated.

Your blood sugar even can be as tied, as I mentioned, to your microbiome.

So all these things are really related and are important to track.

And you can have all kinds of symptoms that doctors dismiss.

Oh, it's IBS, it's

in your head and what's the big deal?

You know, just relax and it's all anxiety.

Not true.

An irritable bowel is caused by, and not an irritable brain, but the irritable bowel causes an irritable brain.

It's the other direction.

It's the body-mind effect, not the mind-body effect.

And you can have bloating, constipation, diarrhea, reflux, food sensitivities, all these things we can start to manage and check for.

So let's talk about how we read labs differently from the perspective of understanding the body as a system or a network, the root cause medicine.

Some people call it functional medicine.

I don't really care what you call it, but this is really where science is going.

So when I look at a lab, I can look at the same result as another doctor and see a totally different story.

And I see a very different picture because

I'm looking for subtle patterns.