Your Labs Are Normal. That's the Problem (Ep. 143)

There is a word that gets said in doctor's offices every single day.

For a lot of women, it is the most frustrating word they will ever hear.

The word is normal.

Earlier this year, a woman came to me with a stack of lab results and one sentence her doctor had handed her. You're fine. Everything looks normal and she did not feel normal. She was exhausted, not tired, wiped out.

Her hair was coming out in the shower, in clumps. The workout she used to love suddenly felt twice as hard. Her body was changing and not in the direction she wanted.

And on top of all of it, she had been bleeding every two weeks for six months straight, and she was told she was fine and she knew she was not fine.

So instead of accepting normal, she brought those same labs to me. And when I read them, the story was sitting right there in the numbers and had been there the whole time.

Today I'm going to walk you through what her labs really showed and why the word normal almost cost this woman her energy, her hair, and her sanity.

Time Stamps:

(0:48) The Word Normal In Your Doctor's Office

(3:55) The Role of Iron

(9:23) B12 MMA