March 13, 2025 • 32 mins
If you’ve ever been told your lab work is “normal” but still feel exhausted, anxious, or not quite yourself, you’re not alone. Conventional medicine often uses lab reference ranges based on an average of sick populations—not what’s truly optimal for health. Just because something isn’t bad enough to diagnose doesn’t mean it’s good enough to thrive.
In this episode of the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast, we break down why standard blood work often fails to tell the whole story and how a deeper look at your labs can reveal what’s really going on with your health. We’ll explore how conventional lab testing focuses on diagnosing disease, while functional lab testing helps identify imbalances before they turn into something more serious.
Take thyroid health, for example. Many people experience weight gain, fatigue, and brain fog for years before conventional medicine sees a problem, simply because their TSH level hasn’t crossed an arbitrary threshold. We explain why looking at a full thyroid panel—including Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, and thyroid antibodies—can detect dysfunction early, giving you the opportunity to address issues before they spiral into a full-blown diagnosis.
We also discuss how vitamin D is one of the most critical yet misunderstood markers in conventional medicine. While most doctors only test for extreme deficiencies, research shows that optimizing vitamin D levels can significantly reduce the risk of infections, autoimmune issues, and even severe COVID-19 outcomes. Understanding what “optimal” really means could be the key to boosting your immune system and overall resilience.
Beyond the basics, we dive into more advanced testing that uncovers hidden factors contributing to chronic symptoms. Environmental toxins are a major, yet often overlooked, contributor to fatigue, brain fog, and hormonal imbalances. The Total Toxic Burden test helps identify these underlying stressors, giving you clear action steps to detox and heal. We also discuss hormone and genetic testing—powerful tools that can provide insight into why certain symptoms won’t go away, why some treatments work for some people but not others, and how to create a truly personalized health plan.
If you’ve been searching for answers but keep hitting dead ends, this episode will empower you with the knowledge to take charge of your health. Your body is always communicating—it’s time to learn how to listen.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast.
I'm Sharon, owner of K6Wellness Center in Dallas, texas
, where we blend trustedexpertise, compassionate care
and a passion for helping youachieve optimal health, because
wellness isn't just a goal, it'sa revolution, and today we're
exploring the importance of labtesting and blood work in
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maintaining your health.
While many are familiar withbasic vitals like heart rate and
blood pressure, lab work goesway deeper, providing insights
that can reveal subtleimbalances before they turn into
chronic health issues.
Most conventional providers uselabs to find acute problems,
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and at K6 Wellness Center, wetake a more proactive approach.
We're focusing on optimalhealth rather than just disease
detection.
That's why we rely oncomprehensive blood, urine and
saliva tests to assess nutrientlevels, inflammation, hormone
balance, so much more, all ofthis giving us a clearer picture
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of what your body truly needs.
In this episode, we're going todiscuss some of the core lab
tests that we use and how theyhelp us guide our holistic,
naturopathic approach towellness.
If you've ever wondered how labwork can empower you to take
control of your health, thisepisode is for you, so let's get
started.
Of your health, this episode isfor you, so let's get started.
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Okay, so for me, I got startedwith lab work.
Probably, you know, just beinga young, married, pregnant
person, that was the only labs Iever had and so I really never
knew anything about it.
But through my journey infunctional health and functional
medicine, I've come tounderstand the importance of
urinary hormone testing, whichhas got to be one of my favorite
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things, and really just takingpeople's basic labs from their
PCP or their regular provider.
That's in network and going allright.
Well, let's look at nutritionnow and they're like how can you
tell?
Because nobody's ever gonethrough the labs with them.
So those are things that Ireally love to use labs for.
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How about you?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, you know you talk about your experiences with
labs.
You know my first memory oflabs is seeing a doctor who just
said you're fine, and I didn'tknow what the blood work was.
I didn't even think for asecond hey, I should know what
this means.
Now, obviously, this was yearsbefore I got really deep into
this world of alternative healthand now I mean I'm in so deep,
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you can't get me out.
But I just remember notunderstanding what these numbers
were, and I remember when Istarted working in this field
also not knowing what thesenumbers were.
And I remember when I startedworking in this field also not
knowing what these numbers were.
But then, as I began tounderstand them, I mean it could
unlock so many answers forpeople and it was just.
It got fun and it's still funwhen someone's blood work comes
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in, to always see, okay, what'sit going to be this time?
I think it's this Is it thatyou know, to see where do we
need to start?
Because it gives you an actualnumber and something that you
can track and I think that'sreally helpful.
So I love when we get to havethat concrete information that
we can then turn around and useit for the clients, because lab
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tests are an important part ofthe information gathering
process in healthcare, and thiscan include getting temperatures
, heart rate, blood pressure,oxygen saturation.
Most people have had this donewhen they go to their doctor's
office.
Other labs, such as urinalysis,blood work, urine and saliva
tests, can be done for so manyreasons and, again, beyond
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finding gross abnormalities,there are so many subtle
findings that can have hugeimplications on a patient's
health, and a lot of it dependson who is reading the labs.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Right, and today we're going to focus on several
of those labs that we relyheavily on at K6 Wellness Center
.
Now there are way more teststhat we order beyond what we're
going to discuss today, but theones we discuss today are really
the backbone of our informationgathering besides, you know,
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getting vitals in our office.
So let's start with blood work.
We really like to have peoplecome in.
Either bring your own or we'lldo an in-house blood draw.
Here we use CPL laboratories.
We really like normal bloodwork.
We get a complete blood countwith differentials.
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We get a complete metabolicpanel.
We look at lipids.
We look at iron and ferritin.
We do a full thyroid panel,including antibodies, because
autoimmune thyroiditis is themost common autoimmune disease
in America.
So we want to see you knowwhere everybody is.
We also look at fasting insulin.
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We look at your hemoglobin A1C.
We're going to look atC-reactive protein and
homocysteine.
Now, these tests you can getanywhere.
They're widely ordered byhealthcare providers in many
areas of medicine.
They're very valuable fordetecting abnormalities in basic
physiology like kidney andliver function.
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Are you anemic?
Are you insulin resistant?
Do you have metabolicdysfunction?
Are you a high risk for astroke or a heart attack?
Does your thyroid work?
Do you have an infection?
So those are basic things.
But a functional medicinedoctor or a provider like us is
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going to go even further withthose very same tests.
It's important to understand therole of reference ranges.
We don't like them.
We don't live and die.
If you you know out there,listeners, viewers, if you have
labs and you look at your labs,on the left side it's going to
say what the test is.
Then in the middle there's yourscore and then on the right
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there's a reference range.
And those reference ranges mostof them there's a few
exceptions are established bythe population of people getting
tested.
So if we think about who goesto the lab to get tested, it's
not usually the real healthypeople.
So where do you rank among thesick people?
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That's kind of how I like tolook at it.
Now, hemoglobin A1c it's astandardized range that is set
and same with cholesterol, nomatter what lab you use.
Those ranges are set bygoverning medical associations
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but they're generally accepted,normal ranges for determining is
somebody healthy or not healthy.
But the thing is, when you go toa functional medicine doctor
and I've had people say how comeyou don't care that this is bad
.
I'm like well, it's actuallygood because the ranges, like
with cholesterol, I feel likewe've limited it too much, so we
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don't worry about coincidingwith that column on the right.
I don't live and die by thereference ranges and I think
when we look at some things morein depth in people's one-on-one
appointments they start tounderstand why.
So cholesterol, I think, is theone example that I tell people.
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You know, 50 years agocholesterol at 250 was fine.
We need cholesterol to make sexhormones and to make cortisol.
And if you don't have sex orcholesterol, how are you going
to make hormones?
You're, you know, not operatingfully.
But now we know well we can giveyou statin drugs and we can
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lower that cholesterol.
And people who have heartattacks have high cholesterol.
So we get it thrown in our faceall the time.
Correlation is not causation.
But in pharmacy it seems tohappen a lot that correlation
will equal causation and that'snot the case.
And statin drugs come withtheir own set of problems which
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we're not going to go into inthis episode.
But there you go.
Iron and ferritin is anotherexample.
We really care about theseranges and you know, for
instance, for us a high level offerritin is really anything
over, I mean 150, we're lookingat it pretty hard because we see
that as stress, as inflammation, but I don't think labs really
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consider it abnormal until it'sin the mid 200s maybe, and so
that's a big difference.
That really is, that's thedifference between knowing what
optimal human function is andwhat the lab says is normal for
the population of people comingin to be tested.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, that brings me to vitamin D3.
That's a great example of whata lab will call fine, and it
could be really low.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And that's one of the standardized ones 30 to 100,
right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, 30 to 100,.
You're within range.
You're fine, and I'm sure youcan attest to it as well, sharon
.
So many people I see are closeto 30, or even in the teens, in
single digits.
I mean I can't tell you how manytimes I have someone come in
with depression or anxiety andtheir vitamin D is super low and
get this.
It's never been tested yet theyhave been prescribed an
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antidepressant.
If you can help a client gettheir vitamin D levels up above
60, that's going to help withmental health, but it also
improves immune function.
During COVID it was shown thatthose with vitamin D levels
above 60 were 85% less likely toend up hospitalized from COVID
complications.
So that's what I like to see alittle higher, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, and thyroid function is another major issue
that we deal with in functionalmedicine and it goes
undertreated to me, in myopinion.
Take this as educationalentertainment if you want, but I
think it goes undertreated inmainstream medicine.
The clinical guidelines fordiagnosis of hypothyroid are
pretty crazy and it's notnecessarily that people need
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more prescriptions for thyroidhormone.
But if you ignore suboptimalthyroid function, right, and we
look at trends over time and ifsomebody's trending in the wrong
direction, we're not helpingthem.
If we just wait for the momentthat it goes out of range, we
can do so much.
If we don't ensure the necessarycofactors that are needed for
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the entire hormone pathway, thenwe're causing people to suffer
needlessly and sometimes foryears before their thyroid
finally poops out and they endup on medicine.
And it's worth noting thatlong-term use of thyroid hormone
increases your risk ofosteoporosis.
So if we were to care aboutearly intervention, we could
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help people, maybe prevent ordelay the need for thyroid
hormone for years.
And differentiating betweenoptimal and diagnosable really
best describes how we look atall the blood work Hanging out
on the border.
You know, like just becauseyour vitamin D is 30 doesn't
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mean that you're not depressed.
It doesn't mean that you havegreat immune system function.
It means you fit somebody'srandom, not random I.
The studies are so flawed Um,some criteria that they're
applying to all ages, bothgenders and different cultures,
with different amounts ofmelanin in their skin.
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Right, there are a lot ofvariables that go into things
like that.
So, um, if the reference rangeis skewed from what's known to
be optimal, are you really goingto be able to trust any
clinical diagnosis or lack ofawareness that a problem even
exists?
So, having a provider who cancritically examine your labs and
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monitor trends.
It's very important and I thinkwe do a dang good job of it
here.
But I am encouraged because Iam getting more people coming in
with their labs and saying well, my PCP said I should start
watching out for blah, blah,blah, and I love that because
it's like, all right, good job.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, they're starting to look at these
numbers a little more criticallyor a little more specifically
for optimal health.
Right, and you know, when itcomes to health there's a lot of
things that we have to workthrough, like toxic exposures
it's become such a reality inour daily lives.
But toxic overload, it canstress our systems and manifest
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in a variety of ways that Ithink a lot of us can dismiss.
These toxins can lead toelevated oxidative stress Think
rust.
Rust in your cells and a biggerburden on the body's
detoxification pathways,particularly in the liver, is a
result of toxic burdens, becausewhen the liver can't adequately
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eliminate toxins or infectiousbyproducts, these toxins can
clog up normal detox pathwaysand lead to a whole range of
symptoms.
So if you're experiencingmultiple chronic symptoms and
can't lose weight despite dietand exercise, you know you could
be carrying a high toxic burden.
You know toxins build up andremain in the body for decades.
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They break down real slowly andsome of them don't break down
at all, which leaves youvulnerable to other toxic
buildups or susceptibility toinfections through impaired
detoxification, compromisedimmunity and increased oxidative
stress.
The total tox burden test thatwe like to do here is a urine
test that assesses the totaltoxic burden in the body and
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with this test we're notmeasuring absolutely everything
under the sun, but we'remeasuring a lot of the big ones.
Not measuring absolutelyeverything under the sun, but
we're measuring a lot of the bigones.
It tests 29 differentmycotoxins, 20 heavy metals and
38 environmental chemicals.
Knowing your toxic burden isthe first step to creating a
personalized detox and wellnessplan to achieve better health.
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When a client comes in andthey're saying hey, I have
symptoms such as fatigue andweakness especially, but brain
fog is another big symptom, weget curious.
It's like what could that toxicburden be?
Because there's usually a toxindriving those symptoms and some
of the symptoms I just want togo through.
Some of them that might suggesta high toxic burden include
chronic burning in the throatand nasal passages, constant
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clearing of the throat and nasalpassages, coughing, wheezing,
shortness of breath, balanceloss or dizziness, and there's
depression or anxiety.
These are huge.
But also eye irritation, wateryeyes, headaches, light
sensitivity, sensitivity tochemicals and foods, metallic
taste in the mouth, irregularheartbeat I see that one a lot
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too or morning stiffness, jointpain, mood swings, muscle
weakness I mean the list goes onand on.
There's sleep problems, poormemory difficult, concentrating,
skin problems, abdominal pain,diarrhea, digestive issues I
mean really, we could go on andon, but many of these symptoms
are very common.
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But remember, common is notnormal.
So if you're listening to thisand you can identify with even a
couple of these symptoms, youshould talk to us about doing
this particular test, becauseyou might have an unknown toxic
burden that you're carryingabout and you're struggling to
just get your digestive systembalanced or to have that energy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There could be something that's stealing your
nutrients and keeping you fromoptimal health and that is
definitely one that has solvedmany a mystery in our practice,
because it's not one that youfind in mainstream medicine.
So definitely worth doing.
And the way we test hormones iskind of different too.
Now, this is not to say wedon't use blood work for hormone
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testing.
And here's a little pearl,ladies if you only want to do
blood work in yourpre-menopausal meaning you still
cycle you have all your parts.
In order to really get the bestidea of hormones, you should
always test at the same time,and it's recommended that you
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test seven days after ovulationOn a 28-day cycle.
It's usually going to besomewhere between day 19 and 23.
And that is just so that wehave, because if you just spot
test at any point, if you don'tremember your cycle, if you
don't know your cycle, yourcycles are irregular.
If you didn't ovulate, we'renot going to know, you know,
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we're not going to be for surewhere you're at.
so if you don't know when youovulate, that's another episode
that we haven't done yet, butthere are ovulation test kits
that you can buy so that you cantell when your LH spikes and
you'll know when you've ovulated.
But the urinary hormone test iswhat we want to talk about
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today.
Specifically, we love HUMAP andHUMAP stands for the Hormone
and Urinary MetabolitesAssessment Profile.
It's a mouthful HUMAP.
It's a really good look at allthe steroid hormones metabolites
which are waste products, andhow efficient the enzymes are
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that help use up these hormonesand get rid of them.
And that includes, likepregnenolone, DHEA, testosterone
, the estrogens and progesterone.
And it looks at cortisol over a24-hour period, which is
amazing.
So it can be a very useful toolbecause, again, if you're
measuring cortisol and you wentto the lab at 2 o'clock in the
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afternoon and you've already hadbreakfast and lunch, that is
useless, they say in blood work.
Really you have to be fastedand do your cortisol before 9am
to have any idea, but that stillonly tells you if you had
normal cortisol at 9am.
It doesn't tell you anythingabout the rest of the day and
your cortisol levels shouldchange throughout the day.
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So we like the urine and it's alot easier to collect urine
four times than blood in one dayor saliva.
It takes a lot of saliva, Um,but this can really be helpful
for figuring out cortisolabnormalities or symptoms
related to your menstrual cycle,fertility, even dealing with
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why is my perimenopausalsymptoms so bad.
So if you have skin healthissues, hair changes hair
changes are a big sign thatyou've got thyroid issues or
testosterone or estrogenimbalances.
So this is a really nice way todo it.
But also people who have moodswings, hot flashes, night
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sweats those could be exploredusing this test.
And also humap is used tomonitor certain bioidentical
hormones.
And it's not just about how muchhormone you produce.
I think it's important that werealize that it's really
essential that you understandhow your body uses these
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hormones and then how they getout of your body.
For instance, a woman who'sentering menopause and wants to
use hormone replacement therapywell, it's going to be important
for us to understand how doesher body use estrogen.
There are three pathways itcould go down, and one of those
is very desirable thetwo-hydroxy pathway.
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But then we should see themajority of her estrogen go that
way.
But then there's thefour-hydroxy pathway that is
prone to causing DNA damage.
So if most of your estrogen isgoing down that pathway, you're
going to have a whole array ofproblems.
And then there's a 16-hydroxypathway which, if you have too
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much going down that pathway, ittends to lead to very
estrogenic type problems.
And so we use this aspect of theurinary hormone test just to
help women see what is your bestoption if you're interested in
hormone replacement therapy,especially as it relates to
estrogen and testosterone.
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What's going to be the bestoption?
And then what help do we needto put on to make sure that you
continue to metabolize estrogenappropriately and not put your
health at risk down the road?
So cortisol is is another onethat I just mentioned, and we
like to use this.
Cortisol gets used so, likebeyond Cushing's and Addison's,
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which are very extreme adrenalissues, this one helps with
menstrual irregularities, sleepdisturbances, anxiety, so things
like that.
But if we're getting detailedinformation about your hormone
production and your metabolismas it relates to your sex
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hormones and your cortisol,you're going to have a much
deeper understanding of why youfeel the way you feel, why your
body may be betraying you.
But it enables us to give you amuch more specific and targeted
treatment strategy so that youcan feel better, Because a lot
of times we can correct thesethings and we can retrain your
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adrenals.
We can help reset hormones.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, and what I love about that test too, the HUMAP,
is when you're looking atcortisol you're getting a
picture of how your body'shandling stress and so many
times people come in and do theHUMAP and we get very valuable
information on the estrogens.
But I think that cortisol bitis as important, if not more,
because a lot of people havecortisol imbalances more than
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they have the estrogenimbalances.
We're all so stressed which isvery valuable.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It can play nicely or it can be really devious with
thyroid dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, yes.
But then another test, myfavorite, the genetic test.
And anyone who's followed alongand listened to us knows that
we've done a whole podcast onthe 3x4 genetic blueprint test.
And anyone who's followed alongand listened to us knows that
we've done a whole podcast onthe 3x4 genetic blueprint test.
But we use this one becausewell many reasons.
It's an easy at-home salivatest, so you just swab the
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inside of your cheek and mail inyour sample and with this test
we're able to look atnutritional needs, drug
responses and potential healthrisks.
Now you know this isn't agene-based test.
If you've heard me talk aboutit, I always like to clarify not
a gene-based test, but rather apathway-based test, and that
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means we're looking at thepathways in your body that have
the greatest potential strengthor weakness, versus fixating on
a singular gene.
And with this test, thisspecific one, it evaluates over
134 genes.
Now it's not going to be allthe genes.
We're not looking at ancestry,we're only looking at the ones
that give us useful informationin regards to metabolism,
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inflammation, detoxification,fitness, body weight, hormones,
brain function, nutritionalneeds, and the results for this
test are presented in a reallyeasy to use manner.
The report looks like almostnot a comic strip, but it has
fun little pictures andactionable steps that you can
take through diet, lifestyle andsupplement nutrition.
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But it's especially valuablefor disease prevention, whether
you know this runs in the familyor you want to see what pathway
is broken that is contributingto this disease.
It is so valuable.
But it's also valuable indiscovering the root cause of
current symptoms or disease,because there's always the
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genetic component yeah, thisruns in the family or there
might be other geneticcomponents that you just don't
detox well and so it makes youprone to certain diseases and
disease patterns.
I prefer people to do this testsooner than later, and
oftentimes it can be the lastone people do.
It was the last one I did.
I spent money on all the othertests, all the other valuable
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tests I needed to know abouthormones and toxins and just my
blood levels, and I pushed thisone out and just kept not doing
it, and when I finally did, Iwished I had done it decades
before, because it provided thewhy for so many of my health
struggles.
And when clients choose to dothis test, we're able to get the
how-to for managing aspects ofnutrition and fitness, illness
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prevention, weight management,stress reduction, and I mean so
much more.
You'll get the ultimatestrategy for your health goals
when you do this test, becauseit's literally a blueprint of
your body.
By analyzing your specificmarkers, we're able to equip
each individual with valuablepersonalized interventions for
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your best health outcomes.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So I wouldn't wait on this one and it's funny because
it's the easiest test.
It's literally a cheek swab,and so you run a Q-tip or
whatever in your cheek and thenyou send it in.
It could not be easier and itis.
It's the one that we put offand put off and but it is so
important and it does help um somuch.
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And, and Elena really has dovein.
That's not good grammar, butyou went to the deep end.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I sure did I go first .
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And, yeah, you just do so.
You offer so much valuableinsight and you show me areas in
treatment plans where it's like, oh, but there's this, and so
we need to change that, you know, and it just makes all the
difference in the world forpeople's outcomes and helps us
do a better job.
Yeah, and we're here for goodoutcomes.
That's, that's our goal.
And and, and that's the thing,I guess this leads into the next
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point, which lab interpretation?
We've touched on it right, wedon't live and die by the
reference range on blood workright.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
On blood work.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
There are other things we do, but what how a
practitioner looks at your labsand I guess some of that goes to
what they know, what theirphilosophy of care is, what
their education has been on thematter.
That's going to directly impactwhat you end up doing about the
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results, because sometimes youdo nothing about the results
because your doctor didn't knowenough to tell you one or two
things you know.
They just know.
Oh, everything's good, there'sno red on this, so we're good to
go.
But ask yourself you know, hasyour provider ever talked to you
through entire lab results, nomatter what the test is imaging,
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specialized labs, whatever havethey ever walked you through,
helping you to understand theirreasoning and what all the data
means, line by line?
Because that's what we do andit's funny because I always have
clients say, wow, nobody's everwalked me through that before.
I feel like I actually knowsomething now, and that's just.
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I think it's important.
We always tell people you needto, you will always be.
You should be your own bestadvocate.
You care more about yoursituation than probably anybody
else, and so you need to know alot.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, understanding your labs is a huge part of
understanding your health.
I mean, honestly, when you seea number, it can be a huge
motivating factor to make thechanges you need to make for
improved health.
Because there's a lot of caseswhen you know you and I, we can
tell by a person's symptoms whattheir problem probably is.
But then it's ourrecommendations and word for it
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and it's not as convincing aslab results sitting in front of
them.
And so it's just helpful forcompliance and motivation and
for tracking your progress whenyou have an actual number that
you can compare it to althoughsymptoms are pretty good
tracking records too.
But it's just it's helpful tohave that lab.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Absolutely.
And so all of this, you know,if you look at it all together,
does everybody need to do allthe tests?
No, do we make everybody do allthe tests?
No, absolutely not.
We will work with somebody evenif they can't do any of the
tests.
But information providesknowledge.
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Knowledge gives you power andthe power to change, the power
to improve your health.
That's what we're all about atK6 Wellness Center.
So don't be afraid of theinformation.
I think that's somethingsometimes we forget is that, oh
yeah, these people are reallystressed out, we're excited to
tell them something or it's veryrun of the mill for us.
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But don't be afraid of what thetest might show, because that's
not the end of the story.
That is never the end of thestory.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It is the starting point.
It is now.
What now?
What do we do to make thisbetter?
So, no matter how hopeless youthink your situation is, no
matter how overwhelmed you maybe by the name of your diagnosis
, don't give up and don't bedefeated by words and numbers,
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because we want you to feelbetter, we want you to live
better, we want you to choosebetter so you can do better, and
part of our byline is look well, live well, be well, and
there's a lot to that.
You're not going to look wellif you're not living well.
If you're not living well, youwon't be well.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, and that's, people can be information
junkies, so that can be theperson who wants to run all the
lab tests but doesn't want tomake any changes, because they
think I did the test, so I didsomething, y'all doing a test
doesn't do anything for yourhealth if you don't take the
information and apply it.
So it's important to be ready totake the steps, but also I'm
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glad you mentioned that, sharon,that yeah, you know I have to
do these tests.
No one has to do all of them orany of them.
It helps us do our job better.
But there's a lot of people whocome to us as well that they
can't afford all this and theyneed help knowing, ok, what is
the one thing I should do, andthat's where we really try to be
good at listening to what ourclients are saying to us, to
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know where do we start yousaying to us, to know where do
we start you, because moneydoesn't grow on trees.
Some people are able to come inand do all that, some can't.
But we want to meet you whereyou're at and we will point you
to the best option for you.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Taking charge of your health starts with knowing
what's happening inside yourbody, and regular blood work is
bare bones and one of the mostpowerful tools to keep you on
track.
We're so glad you spent timewith us today, and we hope this
episode gave you valuableinsights to support your
wellness journey.
If you would like to work withus, we have clients all over the
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your health is worth fightingfor.
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast.
I'm Sharon, owner of K6Wellness Center in Dallas, texas
, where we blend trustedexpertise, compassionate care
and a passion for helping youachieve optimal health, because
wellness isn't just a goal, it'sa revolution, and today we're
exploring the importance of labtesting and blood work in
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maintaining your health.
While many are familiar withbasic vitals like heart rate and
blood pressure, lab work goesway deeper, providing insights
that can reveal subtleimbalances before they turn into
chronic health issues.
Most conventional providers uselabs to find acute problems,
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and at K6 Wellness Center, wetake a more proactive approach.
We're focusing on optimalhealth rather than just disease
detection.
That's why we rely oncomprehensive blood, urine and
saliva tests to assess nutrientlevels, inflammation, hormone
balance, so much more, all ofthis giving us a clearer picture
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of what your body truly needs.
In this episode, we're going todiscuss some of the core lab
tests that we use and how theyhelp us guide our holistic,
naturopathic approach towellness.
If you've ever wondered how labwork can empower you to take
control of your health, thisepisode is for you, so let's get
started.
Of your health, this episode isfor you, so let's get started.
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Okay, so for me, I got startedwith lab work.
Probably, you know, just beinga young, married, pregnant
person, that was the only labs Iever had and so I really never
knew anything about it.
But through my journey infunctional health and functional
medicine, I've come tounderstand the importance of
urinary hormone testing, whichhas got to be one of my favorite
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things, and really just takingpeople's basic labs from their
PCP or their regular provider.
That's in network and going allright.
Well, let's look at nutritionnow and they're like how can you
tell?
Because nobody's ever gonethrough the labs with them.
So those are things that Ireally love to use labs for.
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How about you?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, you know you talk about your experiences with
labs.
You know my first memory oflabs is seeing a doctor who just
said you're fine, and I didn'tknow what the blood work was.
I didn't even think for asecond hey, I should know what
this means.
Now, obviously, this was yearsbefore I got really deep into
this world of alternative healthand now I mean I'm in so deep,
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you can't get me out.
But I just remember notunderstanding what these numbers
were, and I remember when Istarted working in this field
also not knowing what thesenumbers were.
And I remember when I startedworking in this field also not
knowing what these numbers were.
But then, as I began tounderstand them, I mean it could
unlock so many answers forpeople and it was just.
It got fun and it's still funwhen someone's blood work comes
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in, to always see, okay, what'sit going to be this time?
I think it's this Is it thatyou know, to see where do we
need to start?
Because it gives you an actualnumber and something that you
can track and I think that'sreally helpful.
So I love when we get to havethat concrete information that
we can then turn around and useit for the clients, because lab
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tests are an important part ofthe information gathering
process in healthcare, and thiscan include getting temperatures
, heart rate, blood pressure,oxygen saturation.
Most people have had this donewhen they go to their doctor's
office.
Other labs, such as urinalysis,blood work, urine and saliva
tests, can be done for so manyreasons and, again, beyond
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finding gross abnormalities,there are so many subtle
findings that can have hugeimplications on a patient's
health, and a lot of it dependson who is reading the labs.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Right, and today we're going to focus on several
of those labs that we relyheavily on at K6 Wellness Center
.
Now there are way more teststhat we order beyond what we're
going to discuss today, but theones we discuss today are really
the backbone of our informationgathering besides, you know,
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getting vitals in our office.
So let's start with blood work.
We really like to have peoplecome in.
Either bring your own or we'lldo an in-house blood draw.
Here we use CPL laboratories.
We really like normal bloodwork.
We get a complete blood countwith differentials.
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We get a complete metabolicpanel.
We look at lipids.
We look at iron and ferritin.
We do a full thyroid panel,including antibodies, because
autoimmune thyroiditis is themost common autoimmune disease
in America.
So we want to see you knowwhere everybody is.
We also look at fasting insulin.
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We look at your hemoglobin A1C.
We're going to look atC-reactive protein and
homocysteine.
Now, these tests you can getanywhere.
They're widely ordered byhealthcare providers in many
areas of medicine.
They're very valuable fordetecting abnormalities in basic
physiology like kidney andliver function.
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Are you anemic?
Are you insulin resistant?
Do you have metabolicdysfunction?
Are you a high risk for astroke or a heart attack?
Does your thyroid work?
Do you have an infection?
So those are basic things.
But a functional medicinedoctor or a provider like us is
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going to go even further withthose very same tests.
It's important to understand therole of reference ranges.
We don't like them.
We don't live and die.
If you you know out there,listeners, viewers, if you have
labs and you look at your labs,on the left side it's going to
say what the test is.
Then in the middle there's yourscore and then on the right
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there's a reference range.
And those reference ranges mostof them there's a few
exceptions are established bythe population of people getting
tested.
So if we think about who goesto the lab to get tested, it's
not usually the real healthypeople.
So where do you rank among thesick people?
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That's kind of how I like tolook at it.
Now, hemoglobin A1c it's astandardized range that is set
and same with cholesterol, nomatter what lab you use.
Those ranges are set bygoverning medical associations
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but they're generally accepted,normal ranges for determining is
somebody healthy or not healthy.
But the thing is, when you go toa functional medicine doctor
and I've had people say how comeyou don't care that this is bad
.
I'm like well, it's actuallygood because the ranges, like
with cholesterol, I feel likewe've limited it too much, so we
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don't worry about coincidingwith that column on the right.
I don't live and die by thereference ranges and I think
when we look at some things morein depth in people's one-on-one
appointments they start tounderstand why.
So cholesterol, I think, is theone example that I tell people.
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You know, 50 years agocholesterol at 250 was fine.
We need cholesterol to make sexhormones and to make cortisol.
And if you don't have sex orcholesterol, how are you going
to make hormones?
You're, you know, not operatingfully.
But now we know well we can giveyou statin drugs and we can
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lower that cholesterol.
And people who have heartattacks have high cholesterol.
So we get it thrown in our faceall the time.
Correlation is not causation.
But in pharmacy it seems tohappen a lot that correlation
will equal causation and that'snot the case.
And statin drugs come withtheir own set of problems which
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we're not going to go into inthis episode.
But there you go.
Iron and ferritin is anotherexample.
We really care about theseranges and you know, for
instance, for us a high level offerritin is really anything
over, I mean 150, we're lookingat it pretty hard because we see
that as stress, as inflammation, but I don't think labs really
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consider it abnormal until it'sin the mid 200s maybe, and so
that's a big difference.
That really is, that's thedifference between knowing what
optimal human function is andwhat the lab says is normal for
the population of people comingin to be tested.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, that brings me to vitamin D3.
That's a great example of whata lab will call fine, and it
could be really low.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And that's one of the standardized ones 30 to 100,
right.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, 30 to 100,.
You're within range.
You're fine, and I'm sure youcan attest to it as well, sharon
.
So many people I see are closeto 30, or even in the teens, in
single digits.
I mean I can't tell you how manytimes I have someone come in
with depression or anxiety andtheir vitamin D is super low and
get this.
It's never been tested yet theyhave been prescribed an
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antidepressant.
If you can help a client gettheir vitamin D levels up above
60, that's going to help withmental health, but it also
improves immune function.
During COVID it was shown thatthose with vitamin D levels
above 60 were 85% less likely toend up hospitalized from COVID
complications.
So that's what I like to see alittle higher, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, and thyroid function is another major issue
that we deal with in functionalmedicine and it goes
undertreated to me, in myopinion.
Take this as educationalentertainment if you want, but I
think it goes undertreated inmainstream medicine.
The clinical guidelines fordiagnosis of hypothyroid are
pretty crazy and it's notnecessarily that people need
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more prescriptions for thyroidhormone.
But if you ignore suboptimalthyroid function, right, and we
look at trends over time and ifsomebody's trending in the wrong
direction, we're not helpingthem.
If we just wait for the momentthat it goes out of range, we
can do so much.
If we don't ensure the necessarycofactors that are needed for
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the entire hormone pathway, thenwe're causing people to suffer
needlessly and sometimes foryears before their thyroid
finally poops out and they endup on medicine.
And it's worth noting thatlong-term use of thyroid hormone
increases your risk ofosteoporosis.
So if we were to care aboutearly intervention, we could
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help people, maybe prevent ordelay the need for thyroid
hormone for years.
And differentiating betweenoptimal and diagnosable really
best describes how we look atall the blood work Hanging out
on the border.
You know, like just becauseyour vitamin D is 30 doesn't
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mean that you're not depressed.
It doesn't mean that you havegreat immune system function.
It means you fit somebody'srandom, not random I.
The studies are so flawed Um,some criteria that they're
applying to all ages, bothgenders and different cultures,
with different amounts ofmelanin in their skin.
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Right, there are a lot ofvariables that go into things
like that.
So, um, if the reference rangeis skewed from what's known to
be optimal, are you really goingto be able to trust any
clinical diagnosis or lack ofawareness that a problem even
exists?
So, having a provider who cancritically examine your labs and
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monitor trends.
It's very important and I thinkwe do a dang good job of it
here.
But I am encouraged because Iam getting more people coming in
with their labs and saying well, my PCP said I should start
watching out for blah, blah,blah, and I love that because
it's like, all right, good job.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, they're starting to look at these
numbers a little more criticallyor a little more specifically
for optimal health.
Right, and you know, when itcomes to health there's a lot of
things that we have to workthrough, like toxic exposures
it's become such a reality inour daily lives.
But toxic overload, it canstress our systems and manifest
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in a variety of ways that Ithink a lot of us can dismiss.
These toxins can lead toelevated oxidative stress Think
rust.
Rust in your cells and a biggerburden on the body's
detoxification pathways,particularly in the liver, is a
result of toxic burdens, becausewhen the liver can't adequately
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eliminate toxins or infectiousbyproducts, these toxins can
clog up normal detox pathwaysand lead to a whole range of
symptoms.
So if you're experiencingmultiple chronic symptoms and
can't lose weight despite dietand exercise, you know you could
be carrying a high toxic burden.
You know toxins build up andremain in the body for decades.
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They break down real slowly andsome of them don't break down
at all, which leaves youvulnerable to other toxic
buildups or susceptibility toinfections through impaired
detoxification, compromisedimmunity and increased oxidative
stress.
The total tox burden test thatwe like to do here is a urine
test that assesses the totaltoxic burden in the body and
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with this test we're notmeasuring absolutely everything
under the sun, but we'remeasuring a lot of the big ones.
Not measuring absolutelyeverything under the sun, but
we're measuring a lot of the bigones.
It tests 29 differentmycotoxins, 20 heavy metals and
38 environmental chemicals.
Knowing your toxic burden isthe first step to creating a
personalized detox and wellnessplan to achieve better health.
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When a client comes in andthey're saying hey, I have
symptoms such as fatigue andweakness especially, but brain
fog is another big symptom, weget curious.
It's like what could that toxicburden be?
Because there's usually a toxindriving those symptoms and some
of the symptoms I just want togo through.
Some of them that might suggesta high toxic burden include
chronic burning in the throatand nasal passages, constant
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clearing of the throat and nasalpassages, coughing, wheezing,
shortness of breath, balanceloss or dizziness, and there's
depression or anxiety.
These are huge.
But also eye irritation, wateryeyes, headaches, light
sensitivity, sensitivity tochemicals and foods, metallic
taste in the mouth, irregularheartbeat I see that one a lot
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too or morning stiffness, jointpain, mood swings, muscle
weakness I mean the list goes onand on.
There's sleep problems, poormemory difficult, concentrating,
skin problems, abdominal pain,diarrhea, digestive issues I
mean really, we could go on andon, but many of these symptoms
are very common.
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But remember, common is notnormal.
So if you're listening to thisand you can identify with even a
couple of these symptoms, youshould talk to us about doing
this particular test, becauseyou might have an unknown toxic
burden that you're carryingabout and you're struggling to
just get your digestive systembalanced or to have that energy.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There could be something that's stealing your
nutrients and keeping you fromoptimal health and that is
definitely one that has solvedmany a mystery in our practice,
because it's not one that youfind in mainstream medicine.
So definitely worth doing.
And the way we test hormones iskind of different too.
Now, this is not to say wedon't use blood work for hormone
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testing.
And here's a little pearl,ladies if you only want to do
blood work in yourpre-menopausal meaning you still
cycle you have all your parts.
In order to really get the bestidea of hormones, you should
always test at the same time,and it's recommended that you
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test seven days after ovulationOn a 28-day cycle.
It's usually going to besomewhere between day 19 and 23.
And that is just so that wehave, because if you just spot
test at any point, if you don'tremember your cycle, if you
don't know your cycle, yourcycles are irregular.
If you didn't ovulate, we'renot going to know, you know,
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we're not going to be for surewhere you're at.
so if you don't know when youovulate, that's another episode
that we haven't done yet, butthere are ovulation test kits
that you can buy so that you cantell when your LH spikes and
you'll know when you've ovulated.
But the urinary hormone test iswhat we want to talk about
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today.
Specifically, we love HUMAP andHUMAP stands for the Hormone
and Urinary MetabolitesAssessment Profile.
It's a mouthful HUMAP.
It's a really good look at allthe steroid hormones metabolites
which are waste products, andhow efficient the enzymes are
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that help use up these hormonesand get rid of them.
And that includes, likepregnenolone, DHEA, testosterone
, the estrogens and progesterone.
And it looks at cortisol over a24-hour period, which is
amazing.
So it can be a very useful toolbecause, again, if you're
measuring cortisol and you wentto the lab at 2 o'clock in the
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afternoon and you've already hadbreakfast and lunch, that is
useless, they say in blood work.
Really you have to be fastedand do your cortisol before 9am
to have any idea, but that stillonly tells you if you had
normal cortisol at 9am.
It doesn't tell you anythingabout the rest of the day and
your cortisol levels shouldchange throughout the day.
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So we like the urine and it's alot easier to collect urine
four times than blood in one dayor saliva.
It takes a lot of saliva, Um,but this can really be helpful
for figuring out cortisolabnormalities or symptoms
related to your menstrual cycle,fertility, even dealing with
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why is my perimenopausalsymptoms so bad.
So if you have skin healthissues, hair changes hair
changes are a big sign thatyou've got thyroid issues or
testosterone or estrogenimbalances.
So this is a really nice way todo it.
But also people who have moodswings, hot flashes, night
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sweats those could be exploredusing this test.
And also humap is used tomonitor certain bioidentical
hormones.
And it's not just about how muchhormone you produce.
I think it's important that werealize that it's really
essential that you understandhow your body uses these
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hormones and then how they getout of your body.
For instance, a woman who'sentering menopause and wants to
use hormone replacement therapywell, it's going to be important
for us to understand how doesher body use estrogen.
There are three pathways itcould go down, and one of those
is very desirable thetwo-hydroxy pathway.
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But then we should see themajority of her estrogen go that
way.
But then there's thefour-hydroxy pathway that is
prone to causing DNA damage.
So if most of your estrogen isgoing down that pathway, you're
going to have a whole array ofproblems.
And then there's a 16-hydroxypathway which, if you have too
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much going down that pathway, ittends to lead to very
estrogenic type problems.
And so we use this aspect of theurinary hormone test just to
help women see what is your bestoption if you're interested in
hormone replacement therapy,especially as it relates to
estrogen and testosterone.
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What's going to be the bestoption?
And then what help do we needto put on to make sure that you
continue to metabolize estrogenappropriately and not put your
health at risk down the road?
So cortisol is is another onethat I just mentioned, and we
like to use this.
Cortisol gets used so, likebeyond Cushing's and Addison's,
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which are very extreme adrenalissues, this one helps with
menstrual irregularities, sleepdisturbances, anxiety, so things
like that.
But if we're getting detailedinformation about your hormone
production and your metabolismas it relates to your sex
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hormones and your cortisol,you're going to have a much
deeper understanding of why youfeel the way you feel, why your
body may be betraying you.
But it enables us to give you amuch more specific and targeted
treatment strategy so that youcan feel better, Because a lot
of times we can correct thesethings and we can retrain your
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adrenals.
We can help reset hormones.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, and what I love about that test too, the HUMAP,
is when you're looking atcortisol you're getting a
picture of how your body'shandling stress and so many
times people come in and do theHUMAP and we get very valuable
information on the estrogens.
But I think that cortisol bitis as important, if not more,
because a lot of people havecortisol imbalances more than
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they have the estrogenimbalances.
We're all so stressed which isvery valuable.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
It can play nicely or it can be really devious with
thyroid dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, yes.
But then another test, myfavorite, the genetic test.
And anyone who's followed alongand listened to us knows that
we've done a whole podcast onthe 3x4 genetic blueprint test.
And anyone who's followed alongand listened to us knows that
we've done a whole podcast onthe 3x4 genetic blueprint test.
But we use this one becausewell many reasons.
It's an easy at-home salivatest, so you just swab the
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inside of your cheek and mail inyour sample and with this test
we're able to look atnutritional needs, drug
responses and potential healthrisks.
Now you know this isn't agene-based test.
If you've heard me talk aboutit, I always like to clarify not
a gene-based test, but rather apathway-based test, and that
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means we're looking at thepathways in your body that have
the greatest potential strengthor weakness, versus fixating on
a singular gene.
And with this test, thisspecific one, it evaluates over
134 genes.
Now it's not going to be allthe genes.
We're not looking at ancestry,we're only looking at the ones
that give us useful informationin regards to metabolism,
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inflammation, detoxification,fitness, body weight, hormones,
brain function, nutritionalneeds, and the results for this
test are presented in a reallyeasy to use manner.
The report looks like almostnot a comic strip, but it has
fun little pictures andactionable steps that you can
take through diet, lifestyle andsupplement nutrition.
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But it's especially valuablefor disease prevention, whether
you know this runs in the familyor you want to see what pathway
is broken that is contributingto this disease.
It is so valuable.
But it's also valuable indiscovering the root cause of
current symptoms or disease,because there's always the
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genetic component yeah, thisruns in the family or there
might be other geneticcomponents that you just don't
detox well and so it makes youprone to certain diseases and
disease patterns.
I prefer people to do this testsooner than later, and
oftentimes it can be the lastone people do.
It was the last one I did.
I spent money on all the othertests, all the other valuable
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tests I needed to know abouthormones and toxins and just my
blood levels, and I pushed thisone out and just kept not doing
it, and when I finally did, Iwished I had done it decades
before, because it provided thewhy for so many of my health
struggles.
And when clients choose to dothis test, we're able to get the
how-to for managing aspects ofnutrition and fitness, illness
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prevention, weight management,stress reduction, and I mean so
much more.
You'll get the ultimatestrategy for your health goals
when you do this test, becauseit's literally a blueprint of
your body.
By analyzing your specificmarkers, we're able to equip
each individual with valuablepersonalized interventions for
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your best health outcomes.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
So I wouldn't wait on this one and it's funny because
it's the easiest test.
It's literally a cheek swab,and so you run a Q-tip or
whatever in your cheek and thenyou send it in.
It could not be easier and itis.
It's the one that we put offand put off and but it is so
important and it does help um somuch.
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And, and Elena really has dovein.
That's not good grammar, butyou went to the deep end.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I sure did I go first .
Speaker 1 (25:37):
And, yeah, you just do so.
You offer so much valuableinsight and you show me areas in
treatment plans where it's like, oh, but there's this, and so
we need to change that, you know, and it just makes all the
difference in the world forpeople's outcomes and helps us
do a better job.
Yeah, and we're here for goodoutcomes.
That's, that's our goal.
And and, and that's the thing,I guess this leads into the next
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point, which lab interpretation?
We've touched on it right, wedon't live and die by the
reference range on blood workright.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
On blood work.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
There are other things we do, but what how a
practitioner looks at your labsand I guess some of that goes to
what they know, what theirphilosophy of care is, what
their education has been on thematter.
That's going to directly impactwhat you end up doing about the
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results, because sometimes youdo nothing about the results
because your doctor didn't knowenough to tell you one or two
things you know.
They just know.
Oh, everything's good, there'sno red on this, so we're good to
go.
But ask yourself you know, hasyour provider ever talked to you
through entire lab results, nomatter what the test is imaging,
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specialized labs, whatever havethey ever walked you through,
helping you to understand theirreasoning and what all the data
means, line by line?
Because that's what we do andit's funny because I always have
clients say, wow, nobody's everwalked me through that before.
I feel like I actually knowsomething now, and that's just.
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I think it's important.
We always tell people you needto, you will always be.
You should be your own bestadvocate.
You care more about yoursituation than probably anybody
else, and so you need to know alot.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well, understanding your labs is a huge part of
understanding your health.
I mean, honestly, when you seea number, it can be a huge
motivating factor to make thechanges you need to make for
improved health.
Because there's a lot of caseswhen you know you and I, we can
tell by a person's symptoms whattheir problem probably is.
But then it's ourrecommendations and word for it
(27:59):
and it's not as convincing aslab results sitting in front of
them.
And so it's just helpful forcompliance and motivation and
for tracking your progress whenyou have an actual number that
you can compare it to althoughsymptoms are pretty good
tracking records too.
But it's just it's helpful tohave that lab.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Absolutely.
And so all of this, you know,if you look at it all together,
does everybody need to do allthe tests?
No, do we make everybody do allthe tests?
No, absolutely not.
We will work with somebody evenif they can't do any of the
tests.
But information providesknowledge.
(28:37):
Knowledge gives you power andthe power to change, the power
to improve your health.
That's what we're all about atK6 Wellness Center.
So don't be afraid of theinformation.
I think that's somethingsometimes we forget is that, oh
yeah, these people are reallystressed out, we're excited to
tell them something or it's veryrun of the mill for us.
(28:58):
But don't be afraid of what thetest might show, because that's
not the end of the story.
That is never the end of thestory.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Good point.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
It is the starting point.
It is now.
What now?
What do we do to make thisbetter?
So, no matter how hopeless youthink your situation is, no
matter how overwhelmed you maybe by the name of your diagnosis
, don't give up and don't bedefeated by words and numbers,
(29:29):
because we want you to feelbetter, we want you to live
better, we want you to choosebetter so you can do better, and
part of our byline is look well, live well, be well, and
there's a lot to that.
You're not going to look wellif you're not living well.
If you're not living well, youwon't be well.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, and that's, people can be information
junkies, so that can be theperson who wants to run all the
lab tests but doesn't want tomake any changes, because they
think I did the test, so I didsomething, y'all doing a test
doesn't do anything for yourhealth if you don't take the
information and apply it.
So it's important to be ready totake the steps, but also I'm
(30:12):
glad you mentioned that, sharon,that yeah, you know I have to
do these tests.
No one has to do all of them orany of them.
It helps us do our job better.
But there's a lot of people whocome to us as well that they
can't afford all this and theyneed help knowing, ok, what is
the one thing I should do, andthat's where we really try to be
good at listening to what ourclients are saying to us, to
(30:32):
know where do we start yousaying to us, to know where do
we start you, because moneydoesn't grow on trees.
Some people are able to come inand do all that, some can't.
But we want to meet you whereyou're at and we will point you
to the best option for you.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Taking charge of your health starts with knowing
what's happening inside yourbody, and regular blood work is
bare bones and one of the mostpowerful tools to keep you on
track.
We're so glad you spent timewith us today, and we hope this
episode gave you valuableinsights to support your
wellness journey.
If you would like to work withus, we have clients all over the
(31:07):
world, and many of these teststhat we've spoken about can be
shipped to you for collection athome.
You can also order some of ourtests directly online.
See the links below.
If you're watching on YouTube,please be sure to like and
subscribe so you never miss anepisode, and if you want to keep
learning and connecting with us, you can also follow us on
(31:28):
Rumble Facebook and Instagramfor more wellness tips and
updates.
If you're ready to take thenext step towards better health,
visit k6wellnesscom to learnmore or schedule a consultation.
Until next time, take care, bewell and, as always, remember
your health is worth fightingfor.
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