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E169 | Behind The Scenes Lab Review (REPLAY E101)
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Your routine can be dialed in, your workouts consistent, your food choices careful and your sleep “pretty good” and you can still feel tired, inflamed, and stuck. That disconnect is exactly why we recorded this behind-the-scenes look at how we run and review functional lab testing inside Rejuvenating Health. In today's replay episode, Lindsey and Laken use Laken’s own blood work to show what we look for, what “optimal” really means, and how to translate biomarkers into practical, sustainable moves.
We start with metabolic health and insulin markers, because fasting glucose and A1C can look perfect while fasting insulin quietly climbs. We talk about what that can mean for cravings, afternoon slumps, fatigue, and inflammation, plus why stress can push blood sugar and insulin higher even when nutrition is solid. From there we move into thyroid function testing the way it should be done: a full thyroid panel with free T4, free T3, reverse T3, antibodies, and the conversion story that often explains low energy and slow metabolism better than TSH ever will.
Then we dig into nutrient markers and inflammation clues like ferritin and liver enzymes, and we open up the hormone conversation with cycle day 21 labs, luteal-phase estrogen and progesterone, and the realities of low testosterone in women. We unpack DHEA, pregnenolone, and testosterone replacement as personalized tools, not trends, and we explain why there’s rarely a single “magic pill” hiding in your lab report. You’ll also hear the exact kind of step-by-step strategy we use with clients: protein-forward mornings, blood sugar stability, realistic stress support, vitamin D absorption tweaks, and food-first folate boosts that fit real life.
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Welcome And Medical Disclaimer
SPEAKER_00Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on the Rejuvenating Health podcast are solely those of the speakers and are intended as such. Please consult your trusted healthcare practitioner for medical advice. Let's go, girls. Hey ladies, welcome back to the Rejuvenating Health Podcast. I'm nurse practitioner Lindsay, and as always, we're here with your mindset guru Lakin.
SPEAKER_01What up, guys? Today's gonna be a little bit different than our normal episode because we are going to give you guys a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in the lab.
SPEAKER_00In the lab. Yeah. So we're gonna we're um Lakin's gonna Lakin wanted her blood work done because well, why did you want your blood work done? I for I think first explain that. Maybe that would be a good place to start.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh, so it's first of all, because I get my blood work done fairly regularly, it's a good idea to have an eye on those biomarkers. I try to get them done at least twice a year. Uh in the past, I have gotten them done as frequently as quarterly when there's been some things off that we wanted to keep an eye on, like testosterone levels or um thyroid, for example. Right. So this is just kind of my semi-annual regular checkup. It had been at least six months since our last one. And I was like, hey, while we're doing this, we might
Why We Run Deeper Labs
SPEAKER_01as well give give the ladies a behind the scenes look. For those of uh you have not had labs done with us before, you can get a sense of how it's different than what the labs are that you get done with a regular general practitioner and the value that you get when you do a lab review with Lindsay because it is really insightful and I think that it's it's a valuable viewpoint to get some inside look at.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, super, super beneficial. So we draw a wide variety of labs, and we can always add on more labs if I think it's necessary, but these are kind of the labs that I start with uh that I think are like generally needed to assess wellness, right? So we essentially draw like insulin markers, um, inflammatory markers, hormones, full thyroid markers, nutrient markers, looking at your liver, your detox pathways, making sure you're methylating properly, and then overall just like looking at your your blood, your CMP, kind of those like basic lipid panel, which you should be checking just for overall health and and stuff like that. So we're gonna kind of dive into some systems um so you can see what see what the systems look like. And we're gonna start with which you guys, I think I can, I'm gonna try to share my screen, which I know this is with like in addition to just getting regular labs, right?
SPEAKER_01Like um, I would say that particularly for this set of labs, what I'm looking for is some things that may not be optimized that can explain some of the feelings that I've been having, right? So in this one, I'm looking for some evidence to back up why my lifestyle habits are really dialed in. I feel like I live a very healthy lifestyle. I'm very uh particular about the food selection that I have. I know what my vices are, I plan them accordingly, right? I'm moving my body consistently, I hit my step goal easily each day, and then some I strength train four to five times a week. I'm doing sprints once a week, I get uh a great amount of sunlight, I'm handling my stress appropriately, I'm sleeping, right? All of the things, and I know that in previous tests that we've done, I have had some low hormone levels that we wanted to keep an eye on. So I wanted to see where those are in relation to where we've had them in the past and what I can do to optimize those because I'm still having some chronic inflammation that I can feel in my body and my energy levels aren't where I would like them to be in comparison to before. I know that every year that
Blood Sugar Looks Great But Insulin Creeps Up
SPEAKER_01I get older, that's gonna be a little bit harder. So we got to keep a pulse on it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So we're gonna start with sugar markers or like insulin markers. Okay. So when we're looking at insulin or blood sugar, we're essentially I'm essentially looking at four markers. I'm looking at your fasting glucose. Sometimes that doesn't give me a huge picture because cortisol raises fasting glucose, and some people have cortisol spikes at night, and so fasting glucose can be a little bit off, but ideally we want that to be 86 or below, and you're sitting at 85. So that marker looks looks good. Then we look at your triglycerides. A lot of people associate triglycerides with cholesterol, but really they're a blood sugar marker. Elevated triglycerides, you think of eating white things, so bread, pasta, potatoes, those things. Essentially, we want triglycerides to be under 100, more under 70, you're at 54. So again, looks great. Then we also look at hemoglobin A1C, which is your average blood sugar over the course of three months. Want that to be under 5.3, you're at 5.1. That looks good. The one that I'm like, uh, this isn't as optimal as we like it to be, is your insulin. So your insulin came back at 7.6. And while for most people, that's not gonna signal alarms. Like if you look at the lab report, it says under 24 is normal. But we know functionally that we want your insulin under five. And so elevated insulin, even slightly, even only at a 7.6, can lead to, okay, Lakin, I think you have some beginning signs of insulin resistance, which can lead to weight gain, blood sugar crashes, fatigue, and inflammation. So it's like, what's causing that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So like the afternoon slumps or like the cravings.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_01For like quick carbs, like that's gonna, that's gonna be where that comes from. And I would also say, uh, if I remember correctly, this this has creaked up from previous labs.
SPEAKER_00Let's let me pull up the let me pull up your last one so that way we can see exactly what is going on. And so if you guys remember, you can have completely great blood sugars, completely great hemoglobin A1C, but insulin is that hormone that transports the blood sugar to your cells. So if that insulin is starting to rise, then we're showing signs of insulin resistance. And your insulin, oh dang, it's been a while since we did blood work on you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's been longer than six months since the last one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was 5.6 last time. Yeah. So it is up a little bit. And then the time before that, it was 3.7. So in the course of about 18 months, you've gone from 3.7 to where you're at now. So we don't I don't like that. Almost double. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when we think about that, it's nutrition's pretty dialed in, right? Um, is it a hormone? Is it an inflammation issue then? Is it a is your estrogen dropping issue? Is it your stress is higher? Like what of those correlates with you?
SPEAKER_01Maybe.
SPEAKER_00Maybe the stress.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, probably the stress.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And we know that stress is gonna raise your blood sugar, which then in return is gonna raise your insulin to try to bring that blood sugar down. So we'll talk about some stress modulating tips, right? Then
Full Thyroid Panel And Low Free T3
SPEAKER_00next we're gonna kind of dig into your thyroid. And I feel like you you've kind of struggled with this for a while too, right?
SPEAKER_01Just since the last ones. I um the last set of labs indicated that my thyroid was starting to get a little sluggish.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So when we look at thyroid, you need a full thyroid panel. I've I've talked about this before in depth, but you need TSH, thyroid antibodies, free T4, free T3, and probably a reverse T3, like if we're getting everything that we really want in your blood work. I truly don't really care what your TSH is, to be honest, because it doesn't really tell me very much, but your TSH was 2.19. Anything around 2 or under is optimal. TSH tells your pituitary gland to release TSH to tell your body to make T4. And your T4, free T4 was 1.14. It's great. Anything between 0.9, 1.4, I'm happy with. That T4 is not an active thyroid hormone, so it has to get converted into reverse T3 or free T3. Normally, what I see is if you have a normal T4, your reverse T3 is high and your free T3 is low if you're having symptoms of hypothyroidism. We really want that reverse T3 to be under 15. You're at 12.5. Awesome. That looks great. But your free T3 is not, is still sitting at 2.6. Ideally, if if you we want that above 3.5. And that hormone is the one that gets to your actual tissues. So if it's elevated, if it's low, slower metabolism, fatigue, mood changes, cold sensitivity, yeah, all those things. Yeah, let's check it out. Yeah. Um, unfortunately for you, so normally when I see that, I'm like, okay, do you have a gut health issue? Like, are you having problems converting the T4 to T3 in your gut? Do you have nutrient deficiencies? Are you low on ferritin? Are you low on your B vitamins? Are you low on zinc, magnesium, selenium, B? Those are all things that can drive that T3 to slow convert. I'm gonna say yours is the stress though. That's the big thing. Because when we look at your other nutrients, I mean your D is low, and we'll dig into that because it's always low. Um, but I'm pretty sure it's your stress hormone. And ferritin plays a huge role in thyroid. I feel I've posted a lot about ferritin on social media lately, and I don't know, like everyone wants to hear about ferritin. All those social media posts on ferritin are like, nah, your ferritin is not low though. Yours is high. Yeah. When we like this one kind of shocked me a little bit, we typically want ferritin to be 70 to 100. You're sitting at 163, and that can be a sign of inflammation. So it might suggest that, well, one elevated insulin can cause elevated, you know, those two can go hand in hand, but it could mean you have some kind of underlying inflammation going on. And I know you've been struggling with your gut a little bit lately, so it makes me wonder if there's some gut health stuff going on. Yeah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00And it's, I mean, it's not showing up in when I see ferritin that's elevated. It could be elevated too if you're acutely sick. But we always want to make sure if your ferritin's elevated, that your liver enzymes aren't elevated. So we want that AST and ALT to be um below 20. You're at 25 and 21. So it is maybe starting to affect your liver a little bit. And then we want to make sure your blood's not too thick. So we look at hematocrit, you're at 44.6. So I don't really think it it's that at all. You probably just need some liver support, which is going to be like a good NAC supplement, glutathione. And then make sure, like, are you cooking in like cast iron skillets or anything like that that could raise your iron? Mm-mm. Okay. It's probably inflammation then.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I um but I've been taking that for a while. I do take an organ supplement. I wonder if that's it. It's possible.
SPEAKER_00But how much iron, like I mean, you've always had higher ferritin. Like your ferritin last time was 110.
High Ferritin As An Inflammation Clue
SPEAKER_00It's just and you probably weren't taking the organ supplement then.
SPEAKER_01I was.
SPEAKER_00You were then too?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. You might just back off on that. Because I just don't if if it gets too high, it's gonna affect that your liver. And then it's gonna affect your insulin. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I would back off on that. Um then hormone-wise, you have an IUD still.
SPEAKER_01No, recently removed.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so no hormones in your system. No hormones. Natural cycles, yep. All that stuff. Okay, awesome. So when we get to hormones, what day of your cycle were you on?
SPEAKER_01Uh 21.
SPEAKER_00Okay, perfect. Day 21, and just so everyone knows Lakin's 37, in case you wanted to know that. Um so day 21, your estrogen was 71.6. That is kind of falling in that luteal phase, which is day 21. Your progesterone was 15.2, which is definitely following in that luteal phase. Your estrogen's a little bit on the low side for a luteal phase, I would say. Are you having any brain fog, hot flashes, joint pain, anything like that?
SPEAKER_01Well, I think I always have joint pain, but no, nothing more than usual. Um, no temperature, no like not struggling with temperature regulation.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Uh what was it compared to last time the estrogen?
SPEAKER_00Um, last time your estrogen was 106.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_00Um stress steals hormones.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And it's stealing your testosterone for sure. Yeah, apparently, I know that. So your testosterone is 14, and for women, we're looking for that to be closer to 50. And that low testosterone can lead to low muscle mass, mood swings, low libido, just kind of feeling like I don't like you have no mojo, essentially. And we've, I mean, you've struggled with the lower testosterone. I mean, it was 14 last time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We were, I think the highest we've ever seen it was 18.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And that was when we were trying to get it to 20. Yeah, and that we did do DHEA for a little bit, and we got it up a little bit. And I mean, your DHEA is low too. Um, so your DHEA is sitting at, which DHEA is a precursor to testosterone, ladies. You're sitting at 214, which on the lab core lab values says you're normal, but I like that to be probably closer to 300.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01So in that situation, would you, because I haven't been on the DHEA in a while, would you recommend probably since about eight to nine months? Would you recommend that I go back on that first? Or are we at a point now where we didn't see enough of a yield for that? Maybe worth looking at an alternative option.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so testosterone is a personalized decision, right?
Cycle Day 21 Hormones And Low Testosterone
SPEAKER_00You're 37. So I always caution women if you think you want kids in the future, like, do we want to be messing with your testosterone levels? You totally can, right? Totally is not going to hurt anything. You just always want to stop testosterone replacement six to 12 months before trying to conceive. DHEA didn't move the marker a lot for you. And honest, to be honest, I don't see it move testosterone a ton for people that have a stressful life. Because the reason your DHEA is low is because your cortisol is high, right? So and then sometimes when you supplement with DHEA, you can get a little bit of adverse side effects like acne and hair growth. So it's very personalized on how you're feeling. Do you feel like you have low libido and low energy and you're having a hard time maintaining muscle mass? If so, we know the DHEA didn't move it that much last time. Is it time that we have this conversation? Do you need a little bit of testosterone replacement?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And uh I mean, I energy levels is definitely apparent. Uh the muscle mass, I don't have a problem sustaining it, but I have a like for the amount of training and pro like training that I do and the protein that I eat, right? It's like almost impossible for me to increase it, which is very frustrating.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah. So we just gotta kind of decide, you know, which route we want to go with that.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Um your RDW was also low. So RDW it tells us your red blood cells are very uniform in size, which isn't a problem. But when it's combined with your next marker, it kind of adds some context in the fact that your folate was a little bit low. I like folate to be above 15 and you're at 13.4. So folate, we've talked about methylation before. Folate's one of those B vitamins that's important for methylation. So folate's really crucial for DNA synthesis, red blood cell production, methylation. It's basically your body's detox hormone processing system. So low folate can show up as that brain fog and low energy. So you have like uh you have a multipu a multitude of low testosterone, low T3, low folate, like all these things are like, okay, no wonder you feel tired.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. And my folate, if I recall, was not low previously.
SPEAKER_00Your folate was 16 last time. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Yep. So it's declined a little bit. Are you taking a B vitamin at all?
SPEAKER_01No, not right now.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Your B12 looked fine. Your B12 is a thousand. That's great. We want that between 8 and 100 or 8 and 1,000, right? Um, your homocysteine is good. It's 7.2. That's that methylation marker that we look at as well. So, I mean, you are methylating good. It's just your folate is a little bit, a little bit low. Your cortisol was 13.4, which I mean that's honestly not a terrible cortisol. I honestly thought it would be way higher just based on conversations that we've had, but it's not a super high. So when we think about cortisol, and you did this first thing in the morning, right? We always want to do cortisol when we're um that first awakening. So I mean, it it really isn't as high as I as I thought it was going to be. We want that cortisol to be like 12 to 15 or 10 to 15 in the morning, essentially. And you want it to be five to ten at night. But just because it wasn't not high doesn't mean that you're not struggling with symptoms of high cortisol, right? Um so it's just something that we definitely I think your cortisol last time was 8.2, so it's definitely ra risen, right? Um, it went from 8.2 to a lot higher. A lot higher. And then finally, the thing that we've been struggling with forever with you is your stinking vitamin D. It's at 37.6. I think you take like what 10,000 IUs of vitamin D.
SPEAKER_0110,000 IUs a day and K with it, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and outside every day. It was 38.6 last time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, at least it's consistent.
SPEAKER_00It is consistent. That is for dang, that is for dang sure. And your CRP is negative. Um, it's like 0.2 and anything under one is is optimal, right? So I think a lot of this is just clarity, right? Like a lot of times when we go through these values, it just adds some validation to like, oh, no wonder I've been feeling this way, right? But then it's like, what do I do with it? Because there's nothing in this blood work that I'm like, oh, you need a this script is gonna fix you. There's like liter, okay, I could give you testosterone. Yeah. And you might feel better. On you, I could give you some T3 and you'd probably feel better, right? But there's nothing in here that's like this is the magic pill. And I think that's what a lot of people want when we go over labs. And you have a really good understanding of what these lab values mean. You work With our clients, you deal with like this isn't the first time we've gone through this, but a lot of patients all go through this in-depth lab and then they're like staring at me with
Folate Methylation Cortisol And Vitamin D
SPEAKER_00deer and headlights. What do I do with this? And they're just like completely overwhelmed. And there is, I mean, you're pretty dialed in, but there's a lot of markers in there that you need to fix still. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right? And that's the thing, right? Is like most people, until you get the information or get a look under the hood, you don't know, right? Like I would assume that all the things that I'm doing would be improving these biomarkers, but there's still something that is off, right? And there's more variables than just okay, you know, do this one thing and then it'll fix it, right? That's not the case.
SPEAKER_00And the thing is that I try to remind people is I most of the time when I'm going over labs with people, just met you. I have no idea what your day-to-day life looks like. No idea. I have, and I'm not gonna follow you around for the next month and say, oh, this is what's causing it. Like I it's that's where a health coach comes in, right? So the labs and the analysis, it's like a roadmap, right? But you need someone to then step in, like a health coach, and walk beside you to help you fix what we find in the lab at a pace that works good for you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's realistic, right? You got to meet yourself where you are. You can't say, oh, well, you have this issue because your insulin is high and your blood sugar is really high, and we're gonna just eliminate all the processed foods that you're currently eating. That might not be realistic. While that would definitely get you a great drastic change, right? It's not sustainable if you try to just rip the band-aid off versus working with a health coach to identify, okay, what are some small improvements that we can progress upon over a period of time that feels realistic for you to be able to live this way forever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, a lot of people think, I'm gonna get my labs done and then Lindsay's gonna give me this crazy plan, I'm just gonna go implement it. And that is not how it works because that's not real life.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_00It's not real life. It's you will you will try it for a week and you will get completely overwhelmed and you will quit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like you won't stick with it. And real health coaching is grounded in real life. Right? It's your health coach helping you find meals that stabilize your blood sugar. It's your health coach helping you um find some grounding practices to restore your cortisol and adrenal health, right? It's taking the big picture of what we've gone over and breaking it down into bite-sized steps that you can you can actually do. So if I were to give you a plan, it would kind of look like this, right? First, you want to balance your blood sugar. So I don't know how many women I talk to that eat like 25 grams of added sugar before their day even starts, because their coffee that they're drinking is literally candy. Candy. You should be eating protein in the morning. Protein. A protein with rich breakfast, like 60 minutes within waking up, right? Like 30 grams of protein. I'm not talking about one egg.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_00Whole food. And if you don't like egg, like someone to this today was like, I don't like eggs. And I was like, then eat some steak. I don't like steak, then eat some chicken. I like it doesn't have to be a breakfast food. Breakfast foods are candy.
SPEAKER_01It can be any food.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And then you want to like not skip meals, right? So to lower that insulin, I really think yours is more of a stress response, but no eating three hours before bed. You could even add in berberine with your meals to help lower that insulin response. The D, the vitamin D for you is hard.
SPEAKER_01Um, because I think I might just change the one that I'm using. I might just go to a liquid so maybe it'll absorb better, right? Like I'm doing um a pill now, a capsule. And so I'll just switch to the tincture, and then we'll see if that makes any positive adjustment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Are you taking it with fats?
SPEAKER_01I take it first thing in the morning, and I have I have a shake as of my like pre-breakfast before I have my whole food breakfast, and that does have some fat in it. Because it's a fat
Turning Lab Data Into Sustainable Changes
SPEAKER_01vitamin later. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I would do eat it with some fat and see what that does. Yeah. Um, as far as your folate, I don't think it it's necessarily that you need to. I mean, you could add in a methylated folate vitamin for sure, but even if you just increased your green leafy vegetables a little bit, that's probably gonna get that folate.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was gonna say, I think that's a little bit seasonal too, because we're just coming out of winter. And so, like I get most of my fruits and veggies at the farmer's market, right? So it's like stuff that's been in season has been more like root, you know, root veggies and squashes and gourds and things like that. So um in the summer and spring now, I'll tend to be eating a lot more leafy greens just because they're more readily available and in season. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. For your thyroid and adrenals, um, it's like I I feel like you have pretty good sleep hygiene. I know you're getting morning sunlight. Um, you can definitely do like selenium, zinc, copper, iodine, things like that. But then it might be, it might be time like this is a consistent thing for you where your T3 is low. So having that conversation where your T4 is fine. Do we need to add in a little bit of T3 twice a day to make you feel better? And T3 should always be dosed twice a day because the half-life is so short. Um, so and that's again where you need to be working with the health coach because we that needs to be titrated up and all that type of stuff. And then I mean it's just kind of deciding do you want to try DHEA again or do you want to try to go a testosterone route? And what, you know, what does that what does that look like?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Now let's say we go the T3 route. Two questions that I have with that is once I start supplementing T3, will I have to do that forever essentially?
SPEAKER_00No, because your body changes, right? Like I see a lot of people if they like lose some fat and get their adrenals supported, then they're not gonna need T3 anymore.
SPEAKER_01Right. And then the T3 won't necessarily have any impact on the testosterone level. No. It it could make me feel a little bit better as far as energy levels go, but it's not going like the two are not in a scenario where it's like, oh, because this is now optimal, then this is now gonna come up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I mean, the only thing we could try is we could try a DHEA and pregnant alone. We've never given you pregnant alone, which that's another per precursor to testosterone. So we could try a combo of DHEA pregnant alone to see if that would boost up the testosterone before going to testosterone. Or you could do a little bit of a cream You're not going to the cream, it's not for me. You could do an injection if you wanted to do that. I'd rather do that than a cream. I just that's how I do the injection, it's way better. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass.
SPEAKER_01And it's like the dosage and like you can't touch anything. Yeah, I'm not doing that.
SPEAKER_00Sweat, yeah. It's Brody can't lick you. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like I just no, I sweat too much to be wearing a tea cream.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's the thing too. Like, it's not something you have to decide today, right? The second you can contemplate it, you can think about it, you can do all those things. But I think it's just really important for everyone to know that like Lakin is dialed in, her labs are still not optimal. My labs are still not optimal. Like, I got my labs back the other day. I'm like, what the heck is going on with my liver enzymes?
SPEAKER_01Like, yeah.
SPEAKER_00You need to get blood work done every six months, and then you need to have a health coach or someone to help follow you with those labs because just doing it and going out on your own, this is why you can't get it done by your doctor. Like, they don't have time to sit through and go with this, and then they can't monitor the follow-up.
SPEAKER_01Well, they're also not gonna run all the labs that we run.
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_01And then they're not gonna ask you about lifestyle interventions.
unknownNo. No.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00No. So if you feel like your body is telling you something, you should listen to it and get your labs drawn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Just like if your car was making a funny noise or had an indicator light that came on, you wouldn't be like, oh, it's probably fine. I'll just keep running it into the ground and then we'll see what happens.
SPEAKER_00Right. Right. So hopefully this was helpful so you can kind of get an inside peek into the conversations that we have. And I mean, obviously, when I do this with clients, it's a little bit more in-depth because I have to get their background. I know you, so I know what you're doing. I don't have to ask you what you're eating and doing for exercise and sleeping. Um,
Listen To Your Body And Closing
SPEAKER_00but it's good to hear kind of what happens and what what goes down.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I also just think it's good for you know, these women to know that sometimes, you know, your body has things going on that you might not be aware of. And sometimes, even though you're doing all the right things, that there are other there are interventions that are customized to you, unique to you in your body, that may need to still occur. Exactly. And that we're all just human.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Exactly. So hopefully this was helpful, ladies. Share it, give us a five star review, and we will catch you next week.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, ladies.