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Here's your those, Doctor Eldrid Taylor.
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Good morning and happy Wednesday to everyone. I am doctor Taylor,
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the hard one doctor and the Spiritual MD, and I
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want to welcome you here to the Ageless Floprint where
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we try to connect ageless wisdom with modern science. And
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we're really going to do that today because what I'll
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tell you, what I hear over and over again in
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my office and on social media is why do my
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labs seem normal and I feel so out of balance
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or I feel so unwell? And so today we're going
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to talk about what a great book that I read.
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I've actually read it a couple of times, and it's
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called the Myth of Normal. Is that when we say
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normal labs, I want you to really understand what normal means.
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It doesn't mean optimal, it doesn't mean you feel great,
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it doesn't mean that everything's perfect. It just means that
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you are normal in this particular society of population. It
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is only saying that you fit into this bell shaped curve.
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I'm going to talk to you about that. And anybody
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who's taking statistics or anything in high school, they know
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about the bell shaped curve. So that's what we're talking
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about normal. So you have to think if most of
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the people in a population are not well, then unwell
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becomes normal because that's where the biggest group of people is,
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is they're in this state of wellness or health or
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sickness or whatever. So all of a sudden, that becomes normal,
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and you get judged by that awkward sense of normal,
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that unnormal sense, or that unhealthy sense of normal. So
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we're going to talk about that because I was trained
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in that thought process. You have been conditioned to think
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like that, that if I'm like everyone else, then I'm normal.
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That's not true. If you're in a society that is
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sick and unhealthy and you're like everyone else, that means
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you're sick and unhealthy. And that's how these labs are created.
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This is how these normal ranges are created. So let's
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go to the slade so you can maybe understand this
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a little bit better, I hope. All right, So why
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do I feel terrible even when your labs are normal? Okay?
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Why do you feel terrible even when your labs are normal?
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Because normal in medicine and in modern life has stopped
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meaning healthy. Your body is trying to tell you something,
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but conventional testing keeps missing the signals. And there are
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these routine tests that we do we're going to talk about,
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and they're routine because they're routine, and these routine tests
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they have built up this normal range. And so if
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the routine tests aren't telling you what you need to
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know so you can take action, then we have to
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start looking at some unroutine tests. Because the routine test
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aren't telling you what you need to know. So we
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need to look at some unroutine tests, so we're going
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to get to that also, So let's go to the
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next lab. Now I would recommend this book. It's a
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little bit technical, but it's a little bit not technical
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because it's going to talk about things that you think
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are normal that really aren't normal. This is this is
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a great book. So in the myth of normal, what
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he talks about is sickness has become standard, and even
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in medicine, I talk about the standard of care. The
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standard of care in medicine is what are most reasonable
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physicians doing in your area. So if most reasonable physicians
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are doing things that are not good for you, you know,
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like if most reasonable physicians are recommending chemo and radiation
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for everyone, then that becomes the standard of care, whether
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it is the right thing for you or not, but
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doctors have to follow that standard of care. So it's
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the same way where sickness has become the standard, where
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people have in diabetes or high blood pressure are pcos.
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It has become the standard because so many people have
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these conditions, but that is not normal. That just means
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that you are part of a population that has these issues.
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So dysfunction looks ordinary. So the doctor Matte calls this
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the myth of normal, a world of disregulated. The world
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is so disregulated that dysfunction appears ordinary. And here's the problem.
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That is how I got trained. So conventional medicine compares
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you to an already unwell population perpetuating the cycle. So
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most of the time in medical school and in residency,
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you were dealing with people who are in the hospital.
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So these people are sick enough to be in the hospital.
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you have to think. I used to go in my
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office every day and I would see the obee patients,
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and of course in nine months or so they would
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have a baby. But then what would happen is is
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that I would have these UYN patients and they would
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have fibroids. And so what do we do. Well, we
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have to wait until they're sick enough to go to
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the hospital for a hysterectomy, are sick enough or have
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enough pain to go to the hospital to have a laparoscopy.
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the office, one year after another one until you were
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sick enough to have a problem that we knew how
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to treat because we didn't do a whole lot of
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office work. We didn't take care of a lot of
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non hospital patients, so we don't really know what to do.
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are trying to be healthy. We just knew how to
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trioge people who needed who were sick. So you have
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to think about when you go to the emergency room,
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they triage you to see who's the sick person. So
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in my office, and I didn't realize this until I
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got out of this, I was really triaging people. I
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was just going through people until I could find someone
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who needed surgery or needed some procedure, because that is
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how you make money. It's a business. I didn't realize
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that's what I was doing, but you get caught up
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into it. And so I'm like, I did not get
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into medicine just to find the people who needed to
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go to the hospital. I got into medicine to make
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people healthy or well. And so I had to change
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what I was doing in order to accomplish that goal
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because what I was taught was not working. And I've
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said this before, and the first person who I saw
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not working on was my wife. Is that when she
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was taking birth control pills and all that stuff, trying
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to balance her hormones, and I didn't even thinking of
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it as balancing, it was just trying to stop the symptoms.
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Well it didn't stop the symptoms. It made the symptoms worse.
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So that's when we me and my wife both start
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to try to figure out how can we make ourselves better?
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And this was some thirty years ago, and so this
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is the culmination of that. Okay, so why doctors say
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you're normal? The myth inside medicine. Physicians are educated within
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the same cultural myth of normal that affects all of us.
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So this is, you know, just doctors. They're just looking
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at lab numbers to see if they fall into the
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normal range. They're not looking up to see what the
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patient looks like. Okay, so that's the disconnect. We look
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at numbers, we look at X ray's, we look at MRIs,
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but we very seldom look up to see the patient
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and see who they are and what are they going
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through and how it's stress at home and at work
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affecting them. We're only looking at these normal these these
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normal ranges. So we're looking at the average of sick populations.
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Lab ranges reflect average sick populations, not thriving humans living optimally.
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Because you got to think most of the people who
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are in these studies are are are getting labs wrong.
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Most of them are not healthy. Most most of them
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are going to the lab because they think something's wrong
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with them. And so you're going to get this normal
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shifted for the unhealthy people the people who are healthy.
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I you know, you see people who are healthy, They're
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not going to the getting the blood drong or going
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to the doctor or whatever. They are just being healthy.
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So if you don't meet diagnostic criteria, you labeled normal.
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I was saying, I would I would go through the
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office and hey, if the patient didn't have something that
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I could fix with birth control pills or surgery or antidepressants.
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I didn't know what else to do. I didn't know
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what to tell them to eat. I didn't know how
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to tell them to test if their gut was working.
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I didn't know how to tell them to test if
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they are hard, loans were balanced. I did not learn
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so life of testing while I was in my residency.
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I'd learned all of that seven or eight years after
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I had been in practice and figured out that a
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lot of the stuff that I learned does not work right.
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So pathology over potential. This keeps doctors focused on pathology
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instead of potential. So we're only looking at what is diseased.
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We're not looking at how to make the rest of
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you healthy. And I don't I don't want to. I
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don't want to condemn one particular, one particular subspecialty. But
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this is what I see in oncology is that when
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we talk about pathology over potential, is that oncologists are
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so great at trying to kill that cancer, to radiate it,
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to to chemotherapy it, you know, do whatever it needs
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to kill that cancer, but again not looking up to
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see how killing the cancer could also be killing the
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patient and what I try to do. I'm not saying
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you shouldn't do those things, but then you also want
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to see the potential of them recovering from all of
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that treatment, and how can I keep them from being
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from deteriorating while they're doing the treatment. So that's why
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we try to offer support to cancer patients with vitamin
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SEE and we're telling them about healthy diets and doing
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the signatarity tests so we can find things early, so
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we can look up and not look down at some
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lab numbers or some X ray or some MRI, look
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up and see the patient and see who they are
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and talk to them, and you will get so much
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information if you will just pay attention to the patient.
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And I love talking to patients. I love hearing their stories,
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and I love trying to make sense out of a
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story that they have felt confused about because they keep
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getting these normal labs. All right, So what does normal
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labs really mean? Normal labs were built to diagnose the disease.
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That's what I'm trying to get across to you. Hey,
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they were trying to see who is diseased enough that
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we have to intervene in a hospital or we have
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to intervene with some high tech procedure. Okay, Now, in
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order to be diseased, according to your labs, you had
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to be two standard deviations outside of the mean. And
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I know that's a lot of worse, but I can
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guarantee you somewhere in your education you learned about two
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standard deviations from the mean in this standard and this
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bell shaped curve, So feel awful. Test a fan, so
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you can feel terrible and still test a fan according
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to conventional standards. All right, you're not yet sick enough.
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That's what I told you. We were primarily hospital little focused.
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I spent most of my time in the hospital. I
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did not spend this is in my residency, in my training,
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we do not spend a lot of time in the
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office talking to patients who are just living day by day,
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trying to get by. They're not sick enough to go
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to the hospital, they're not sick enough for some surgery,
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they're not sick enough for some high priced medication. So
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you just say, hey, you're normal. I don't I'm not
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quite sure what's going on with you, but according to
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this everything seems fine. Well, here's the problem. I said this.
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Often the doctor keeps saying you're not sick, and you
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keep telling the doctor you're not well, and both of
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you are correct, and that is what causes all of
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the friction and confusion and frustration. The doctors are frustrated
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with you because you keep coming in saying something's wrong
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with you and they can't find anything, and you're frustrated
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with them because you keep coming in and you know
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something is wrong with you and the doctor can't find anything.
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When that happens, that that makes you a perfect person
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for me to see because now I know you don't
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have a disease, and I'm almost sure you have a
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functional problem not a disease. So now they've ruled out
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all of the serious conditions, so now I can look
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at all right, let's do some different testing. Let's look
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at functional testing, not disease testing, and we can see
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why you're not functioning like you want to. All right, Okay,