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Hi!
I am so excited to share this webinar and THESE POWERFUL IDEAS with you. Labwork can be a key puzzle-piece in helping you to use functional medicine science to identify root causes of your patients’ challenges. As we often say at SAFM, if you’re truly unsure, then Test, Don’t Guess. However, labwork is only ONE puzzle piece and there are many pitfalls in using it accurately and effectively. Check out this video to get some clinical pearls you can use right away. You’ll learn:
· The single, most Harmful Myth about labwork
· Three pearls you need to know about getting Labwork that’s Accurate
· The Most Misunderstood lab marker: are you falling in the same trap?
· Two powerful markers to Get in Front of an Epidemic
· What’s Messing up your patients’ Thyroid labwork
· And much more!
Please add a comment below to share what most resonated with you in this video, I am very interested in what you think!
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I love your teaching style. It is evident that you love what you do and sharing it with others.I enjoyed your info on lab work and the importance of only water for 10 hours prior to having the lab work drawn. Also understanding that the lab work is only a piece of the puzzle and the “normal” range isn’t necessarily “normal” for everyone, as we are all different.
Thank you for all you do!
Karen
I didn’t get a chance to watch during the day, so I watched tonight. I LOVE your explanation of reference ranges and “normal values” vs. optimal values and achieving better health. I have never been “diagnosable” (great word!) but I certainly have been able to improve my health.
I think explaining this difference to clients is crucial because our society has been conditioned to believe that unless you can diagnose it, you can’t treat it. Untrue! Chronic and pre-chronic conditions can indeed be treated though the treatment may not necessarily be a pill or a procedure; it might be changing habits. And tying these concepts to lab markers tracked over time confers a huge benefit to clients.
Thanks for sharing your pearls!
Thank you for such a fact filled presentation! Having your client track the results of their blood work overtime is a great way to empower them on their own health journey!
Lots of great information! Fascinating to learn that stress can affect your lab results and that supplementing with biotin can cause inaccurate thyroid lab results. What resonated with me the most was the importance of incorporating the use of fasting insulin level as a marker for the epidemic of insulin resistance and to know when to take action with our patients to prevent diabetes.
Tracy, thank you so much for presenting in such a way that it all makes sense and is easy to understand!
love the concept about utilizing fasting insulin.
Wow! This information was pure gold! How do I pick just one thing here. I’ve learned so many pearls of wisdom. The whole entire video was full of it. I’ve been studying diseases and conditions for 13 years and after listening to today, I feel like I know nothing at all. LOL! O-M-Gosh – Had no idea about the LDL for men = stress and LDL for women = hypo thyroid state and that blood sugar and birth control are also contributing factors. The differences for fasting insulin levels versus blood glucose fasting and how stress and combo of high refined foods and metabolic issues. Also, how to help clients get the BEST lab results part. These are all the things I had thought of but never communicated it to the full extent to clients before. Now I know more on the WHY and how critically important it is. Thank you so much Tracy! I have to say that my favorite part of all is that liver dis-function = dis-function in the gut. I always knew this but was really great to hear you say it. I will be going back to the replay again. I’ll take better notes. Hands… Read more »
Excellent information love the concept about utilizing fasting insulin.
I really enjoyed and appreciated all of the pearls that you shared. I love all things Gut Health! I also found the information about the fasting insulin testing and the biotin very beneficial. Thank you for sharing all of these wonderful pearls with us!
Loved your presentation! It was so interesting to hear about the fasting insulin test!
The pearl about LDL, stress and bile was very helpful to me.
Tracy you are ON FIRE! You GO GIRL! Great pearls and tips to help all of us improve our own health and the health and lives of our clients. My FAVE Pearl is…give your patients WRITTEN INFO about the definition of FASTING…ONLY WATER for the PREVIOUS 10 HOURS! And review this with your client and explain why this is so important when checking labs!!! And just remember…if a patient “screws up” or “does not follow our instructions” then it means…WE the PROVIDERS goofed and we need to do better in trying to educate our clients about the best way to get their labs done/drawn!!! ONWARD Functional Health Educators and Coaches!!! Thank you Tracy!!!
There were so many pearls in here. I plan to re-watch a third time and take notes. One thing that made me chuckle was when you said you could geek out over this for days. That’s exactly what my friends say about me. I have no formal training in functional medicine but I’d love to learn more. I can talk about this stuff for days. I love it so much. Thank you so much for doing this video!
I loved the webinar! I really enjoy the way you teach by showing how all the pieces fit together for health,and how everything is interconnected. You make it so easy to understand, and I’m looking forward to taking your Core 101 course. There were many pearls today, but I think the most interesting one was the effect that biotin can have on the thyroid labs. Thanks for all the great information!
I appreciated the discussion of LDL cholesterol. I feel I have better ways of sharing this info with my patients.
Wow! So many great pears of wisdom, its hard to pick just one. I did not know that fasting insulin levels can indicate whether you might get Diabetes Type 2 in the next 5 years!! I absolutely loved every minute of the webinar. Thank you!!
Thank you once again for sharing your incredible wisdom, and especially for recording it for us in far off lands Down Under, so that we do not have to be up at 3am!
For me personally the effects of stress on LDL, the sex differences and also zinc effects were great, i always knew LDL was not such a big deal, but never really understood this fully. Very helpful for my partner, who has just been warned about his LDL, and who is under stress. Much appreciated.
PS I would absolutely love to do the Core 101 in January, which coincides perfectly with the completion of my Health Coaching diploma
How awesome to be able to share with patients/clients the education about their lab work so that they become aware of changes they need to make before they develop a condition/disease. True preventive medicine.
Thank you so very much for making it possible to get an indepth Funcitonal Medicine education on-line. Very exciting!!
Hi Tracy,
The connection for men between stress and raised levels of LDL, and the connection for women of hypothyroidism and raised levels of LDL struck me.
Thanks, John
I have been studying a lot about functional medicine but the labs still mystify me so thank you for the video today. I have to say I am surprised about biotin affecting thyroid tests. I’m gonna have to watch the video again so I can take notes, I was listening at work.