“I know something is off, but I keep being told that everything is normal.” As a nurse practitioner specializing in wellness and health optimization, I’ve heard some version of that sentence from more ...

Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

You’re likely no stranger to getting lab work done every year or so to check on your overall health. Whether it’s part of a routine checkup or because something's out of whack and you want a closer ...

Why ‘Normal’ Isn’t Always Normal When a doctor says your labs are normal, it sounds like a clean bill of health. Often, it is. However, normal in laboratory medicine lingo means within a reference ...

While “normal” lab results may be reassuring, they don’t automatically mean someone is metabolically healthy. Metabolic health is typically assessed using five key markers — waist circumference, blood ...

If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run billions of times ...