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Dr. Mark Hyman

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The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We're able to look at very rare signs of metabolic dysfunction, for example, like where they're heading for diabetes or Alzheimer's risk or obviously cardiovascular risk, hormonal dysfunction.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

and nutritional diseases and deficiencies that are really common that often would lead to problems later on.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

So most of us are walking around with these blind spots.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We don't really know we have these problems.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We think we're fine.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We don't really know what's going on.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And we think how we feel is kind of normal.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We just have these subtle symptoms or

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

It's kind of just how we are, and I call it the FLC syndrome, when we feel like crap.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And we think it's normal.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

Oh, we should have headaches, or we should have joint pain, or we should have sinus issues, or we should have migraines, or we should be tired, or I should have an irritable bowel, or I'm a little depressed, or whatever.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

These are things we come to accept as just part of who we are.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

They're really not.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

They're just signs of imbalances.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And so we don't really want to guess.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

We want to test.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And that's what I would say, test, don't guess.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And we want to use real data, including your medical history and your lab data and lots of other information we're collecting with Function Health, including wearables and your genetics eventually, stool testing.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

And this is really where we have access to stuff that you never had access to before, unless you went to the doctor and had

The Dr. Hyman Show
Office Hours: The Blood Tests That Actually Matter for Your Health

him or her know it the order, which they usually don't because they're only looking for acute disease, and understand how to interpret them, which they don't, and the insurance pay for them, which they won't.