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Ep.195 “Normal Isn’t Optimal”: Hormones, Heart Disease, Thyroid & Midlife Lab Blind Spots
Ep.195 “Normal Isn’t Optimal”: Hormones, Heart Disease, Thyroid & Midlife Lab Blind Spots
Have you ever been told your labs are “normal” — but you don’t feel normal? In this episode, I sit down with integrative and functional medicine physician Aaron Hartman, author of Uncurable, to unpack the dangerous gap between normal and optimal — especially for women in midlife. We cover: What lab reference ranges really meanThe cardiovascular markers every woman should know (hs-CRP, LDL particle number, Lp(a), ApoB, homocysteine)Why LDL alone is outdated thinkingThyroid testing beyond TSH (...