The truth is, before your doctor can officially diagnose you is THE best time for intervention. This is when changes should and, contrary to mainstream belief, can be made to slow, halt, or maybe even reverse the progression of disease. All those symptoms that often appear long before diagnosis aren’t just nuisances to be treated before you get hit with a major diagnosis years down the line. They’re clues to why your body is struggling.
The Role of Functional Blood Chemistry
Functional blood chemistry (FBC) can help decipher those clues. It enables early intervention by providing a holistic, whole-body assessment of your blood work.
Instead of isolating individual body systems, FBC examines a wide range of biomarkers to understand your overall health. Using optimal health ranges—those where research shows people feel their best—FBC can identify root causes of your symptoms, including:
Blood sugar imbalance - WAY before Type 2 Diabetes
True cardiovascular risk - with more reliable tests
Hydration status and electrolyte need
Gut and digestive dysfunction
Nutrient deficiencies and dietary needs
Liver & gallbladder dysfunction
Kidney dysfunction
Adrenal dysfunction
Thyroid dysfunction - and WHY (hint: it’s usually NOT the thyroid itself)
Inflammation
Oxidative Stress
Infection
Parasites
Iron deficiency (and WHY… hint: it’s not usually a need for iron) or iron overload
Toxin exposure
Yes, we can see ALL of these things by assessing routine blood work through a functional lens, which can then likely explain why you’re struggling with:
Chronic pain
Inflammation
Fatigue
Low energy
Digestive distress
Hormone imbalance
Allergies
Frequent or recurrent illness
Brain fog
Poor sleep
Anxiety and/or depression
Inability to lose weight
Fill in the blank with YOUR symptom(s
Benefits After Diagnosis
If you already have a diagnosis, Functional Blood Chemistry can still offer significant benefits. Whatever your body needed before diagnosis it likely needs even more after. FBC helps identify these needs, allowing for bio-individual support alongside your doctor's treatment plan.
When FBC is combined with in-depth Nutritional Therapy assessments, we can gain a detailed understanding of the support your body, specifically, needs.
This powerful combo allows for personalized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations - the seemingly simple yet in reality exactly what your body needs - to help you feel good again.
“Your Labs All Look Normal.”
Have you heard that, but you still don’t feel great?
That’s because normal does not mean optimal.
Understanding Conventional Blood Work
The standard approach to evaluating blood work is designed to diagnose disease, meaning after disease has already set in.
In addition, individual body systems (i.e. thyroid, cardiovascular, etc.) are usually assessed in silos without consideration of how they might relate to others or what the results may indicate about the body as a whole.
Finally, the main question with conventional blood work is usually are you in or out of the given reference range? This bypasses a lot of data. Has a pattern been evolving for some time? Are you just outside of range… but just can’t be officially diagnosed yet?
Not to mention - get ready for this mind-blown tidbit - standard lab reference ranges are not based on measures of good health but instead are a reflection of society at large. And society at large isn’t healthy. More specifically, standard blood work lab ranges are averages of everyone who gets their blood taken.
This means your labs are being compared to those with Type 2 diabetes, those actively fighting cancer who have their labs drawn multiple times a day, those who’ve recently suffered a heart attack, those living with PCOS, those forgetting themselves and their loved ones due to Alzheimer's, and the list goes on.
So of course your labs look “normal” - you haven’t reached disease. Yet. The question is…
Why wait for disease to address your health?
The Limitations of Conventional Healthcare
To be fair, we haven’t been taught that there’s any other way than to wait.
There’s no question that modern medicine excels at addressing acute health issues after damage has been done: life-saving care in emergencies, repairing broken bones, managing severe trauma, treatment of some infectious diseases, advanced surgical procedures for complex conditions that would otherwise be fatal or debilitating, etc.
Unfortunately, today's healthcare system is also largely reactive. It’s designed to treat illness or symptoms rather than provide proactive solutions that promote health. So there’s just not much you can do, is there? Just “watch what you eat,” “exercise some,” and “wait and see”? Actually…