5 Blood Tests Your Doctor Is Missing

Lab #1 - Heavy metals.

Common heavy metals: mercury, lead, tin, and cadmium.

Mercury can cross the blood brain barrier and lead to fatigue, brain fog, headaches, tremors, and insomnia.

Do not detox right away if your levels are high.

Step #1: Stop your exposure.

Step #2: Nourish your body and correct any nutritional or biochemical imbalances.

Doing a detox too soon can actually cause more damage as your body is not able to properly bio transform and detoxify the heavy metals within your body.

Lab #2 Comprehensive mineral panel

The specific markers I look for.

Plasma copper
RBC Magnesium
Whole blood manganese
RBC potassium
Whole blood selenium
Plasma Zinc
Ionized calcium

Lab #3: Testosterone

I like to see both a total and free testosterone, the free being the active form.

And if I'm looking at testosterone, I also like to look at other hormones as well, including estradiol, DHEA, and SHBG at the very least.

Testosterone can aromatize to estrogen.

Foods that help with lowering elevated estrogen levels include flax seed and cruciferous veggies.

#4 ferritin

Ferritin is the storage form of iron. If your levels are too low you're most likely anemic and if they get too high it can significantly decrease your lifespan.

Copenhagen City Heart Study that looked at a population of 9000 people it was found that if ferritin was…
- less than200 ferritin the median survival was 79 years old
- 200-399 the median survival was 76 years old
- 400-599 the median survival was 72 years old
- 600+ the median survival was 55 years old

A simple blood donation will drop your ferritin levels by 30-50 points on average.

#5 ApoB

ApoB is an advanced cardiovascular risk marker.

ApoB is reflective of the number of LDL particles in the blood.

Look at the LDL cholesterol like the number of passengers on a ship.

And look at LDL particle number as the number of ships.

It is damaged ships (oxidation) that leads to atherosclerosis (damage to your arteries that leads to narrowing and hardening).

Thus, it’s more important to understand how many ships (ApoB) are present versus how many passengers there are on those ships (LDL cholesterol).

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All of the information in these videos are for educational purposes only and are not medical advice. You should always check with your doctor before making any medical decisions.