Dr. Mary Claire Haver

And so high sensitivity C-reactor protein is a general marker of inflammation.

I can't tell you where the inflammation is coming from, only that you have it.

with this CRP.

We can have guesses as to where it comes, but it is associated with metabolic dysfunction, cognitive decline, and accelerated aging.

So it often can tell us there's some inflammatory, in our clinic, we're like, something is causing you to have inflammation.

We are gonna start doing things we know that can lower inflammation.

That's gonna be exercise, stress reduction, monitoring your sleep, increasing your protein.

increasing your fiber intake, increasing your fruit and vegetable intake.

Like we're going to hit it with all the things and monitor that and see what's going to help it come down.

Remember that your symptoms are data.

Brain fog is data.

Chronic fatigue is data.

Weight gain, especially in your midsection, is data.

Poor sleep is data.

These translate symptoms into physiology.

And the blood work just kind of helps complete the picture.

And so, again, our lab checklist has these and many, many more.

Tons of resources available to you if you go to pauselife.com and just

Go in the little search bar and type in checklist and you can get it downloaded to your inbox for free.

And then you can take that to your clinician or just get the labs ordered on your own.