I hated chemistry in college. I diligently showed up every week, but couldn’t understand the patterns. I knew I wasn’t cut out for it and barely made it through without starting the lab on fire. 
Now I’ve been drawing and interpreting labs for 15 years. It’s frustrating when results come back unclear… We draw labs because we’re seeking clear answers.
In my experience, people begin to feel ill LONG before traditional blood tests demonstrate an obvious diagnostic pattern. These patients are told that everything looks “normal” and nothing is wrong. But they are NOT feeling normal!
Lab values should NOT be required to prove that someone’s symptoms are real.
Physiological complaints are deserving of further investigation because there is ALWAYS a reason. The ranges used in traditional lab testing are based on statistics, and NOT representative of good health. “Normal” represents “average” (rather than optimal). Further, most normal ranges are too broad to detect health problems and are NOT USEFUL for detecting the emergence of disease.
In functional blood chemistry analysis we take commonly ordered, basic labs and use them to evaluate nutritional status and health. We orient ranges around physiology rather than pathology, resulting in a tighter range. Early evaluation and trend analysis is used to establish the trajectory towards or away from optimal health so issues can be addressed BEFORE disease progresses.
Now that I see such value in the interpretation and can understand patterns between the pieces… I LOVE chemistry!
If you have some nagging symptoms but “normal” labs, if you want to know what else is hiding behind your recent results, or if you simply want to know what you can do to FEEL BETTER… book a free consult and let’s talk!
