Have you ever gotten your blood work back, heard "everything looks totally normal," and thought... then why do I feel like garbage? Andrew and Kat are getting into exactly that this week — what your standard labs are actually checking for, what they're not even looking at, and why "normal" doesn't mean you're fine.
Kat walks through what she's actually looking at when someone comes to her exhausted, bloated, and stuck even though their doctor gave them a clean bill of health — energy, sleep, digestion, workouts that aren't paying off, and yes, ferritin that won't budge no matter how much iron you eat. They also get into why reference ranges are so much wider than they should be (someone barely inside the "normal" line and someone thriving get treated the same), and why your doctor probably never looked at your diet even once.
And a lot of this really does come down to time and money — doctors get basically zero nutrition training in med school, insurance is paying to keep you alive, not to make you feel good, and functional testing costs a lot less than most people think. So if you've been told your labs are fine and you still feel off, this one's for you.
13:18 — Trivia: doctors get zero hours of nutrition training (and other wild healthcare stats)
20:20 — What Kat actually looks for when someone feels awful but tests "fine"
29:45 — The reference range problem: why "normal" is such a low bar
38:47 — The tests your doctor never orders, and how to actually ask for them
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