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Reading blood work without training... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm Dr. Troy. I just had a
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  Speaker 2: client come in that we're looking at blood work and
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  Speaker 2: they brought in three different timeframes when they had blood work.
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  Speaker 2: And why I bring this up is because we're looking
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  Speaker 2: at trends and you can do this with your own
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  Speaker 2: blood work. If you have some type of my chart
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  Speaker 2: or something similar, maybe you've got hard copies of your
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  Speaker 2: blood work. You can pull them all out and look
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  Speaker 2: at things. Now, in other podcasts, I've talked about normal
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  Speaker 2: blood values aren't good enough. And normal blood values, as
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  Speaker 2: a quick review, is a medical model of quote-unquote normal,
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  Speaker 2: which is not normal at all. You and I would
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  Speaker 2: consider normal as optimal blood values where we feel amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But you can have medical normal values and still feel
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  Speaker 2: like crap. And here's why. Optimal values are very narrow.
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  Speaker 2: within that normal blood value of the medical profession, there
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  Speaker 2: is a very narrow optimal value. They'll take that optimal,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll go a standard deviation outside of it,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll take another standard deviation outside of it.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? It means, let's say that you're
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  Speaker 2: in a parking spot, and that parking spot has two
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  Speaker 2: lines on either side of it. Parking in that parking
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  Speaker 2: spot is optimal, right in the middle. But let's say
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  Speaker 2: that you park on the line on one side. That
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  Speaker 2: is a standard deviation outside of it. But now if
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  Speaker 2: you park and your car is so wide that you
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  Speaker 2: could park still in that spot, but now you're actually
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  Speaker 2: through the next spot and into the next spot over.
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  Speaker 2: You've got a wide car, my friend. And so you're
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  Speaker 2: actually taking up two spots and a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a third. That would be outside of the normal. That's
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  Speaker 2: two standard deviations outside that parking spot. So with blood values,
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  Speaker 2: to give you an example, a common, common blood test
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  Speaker 2: is a complete blood count. And a complete blood count
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  Speaker 2: will give white blood cells. Now white blood cells are
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  Speaker 2: our immune system. And most people, if they're sick and
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  Speaker 2: they go to a doctor and they look at their
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  Speaker 2: white blood cells and they're above or outside of the
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  Speaker 2: range high, they would tell them that you have an infection.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, they'd be right. But what happens when
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  Speaker 2: instead of being outside of that range, because I've seen
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  Speaker 2: values from somewhere around 3.5 or 4 on the low
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  Speaker 2: end to 10.5, even sometimes 11.2 on the high end.
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  Speaker 2: So let's say we've got a really broad range. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a 3.5 to 11.2. And somebody comes in and
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  Speaker 2: they don't feel well, and they get, let's say, a 10.1. Well,
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  Speaker 2: your blood looks good, but they don't understand optimals. Optimals
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  Speaker 2: are technically 5.5 to 7.5. Some people will give that
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  Speaker 2: optimal all the way up to 8.5, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a bit generous. I can't tell you how many
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  Speaker 2: people will come in with white blood cells well under 5.5,
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  Speaker 2: some in the fours, some even lower. That is a
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  Speaker 2: chronic infection. And so, with this blood value, all we
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  Speaker 2: have to do now is say, okay, well, if I've
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  Speaker 2: got two or three blood values, I've got last year's
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  Speaker 2: and the year before, and I've just got a brand
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  Speaker 2: spanking new one. That was how my patient came in.
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  Speaker 2: And what we were looking at is we were looking
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  Speaker 2: at their thyroid hormone, or rather thyroid stimulating hormone, which
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  Speaker 2: is coming out of the pituitary, telling the thyroid what
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  Speaker 2: to do. Now, two years ago, they were at 0.9.
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  Speaker 2: And Ultimately, if we look at thyroid values or TSH values,
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  Speaker 2: thyroid stimulating hormone, you'll see anywhere from 4.5 to, or rather,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, 0.45 to 4.5. Some values will even be
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  Speaker 2: like 0.4 to 5. Some may be even 0.4 to 5.5
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  Speaker 2: as a range for TSH, where the actual optimal value
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  Speaker 2: is 0.8 to 2. And I see a fair amount
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  Speaker 2: of research show that that's probably pretty accurate. Now, how
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  Speaker 2: would we know for sure? Well, we would have people
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  Speaker 2: that have good physical form. They're not holding weight in
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  Speaker 2: weird places. They're physically fit. They have energy. They get
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  Speaker 2: good sleep. Their diet is really good. They're not eating
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  Speaker 2: crappy food. And they feel tremendous. Their skin looks good.
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  Speaker 2: Their heart is good. Everything is good. And so then
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  Speaker 2: we check their blood value and we see that their
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  Speaker 2: thyroid is like 1.2. Okay, 0.8 to 2 is where
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  Speaker 2: we would expect it. Well, hers was 0.9, which was
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  Speaker 2: well within optimals. And she's in great shape, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: And then the next time it was at 1.1. And
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  Speaker 2: then this last one was at 1.7. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these are all in optimals technically. And I
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  Speaker 2: know you feel great, but look at the trend. We
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  Speaker 2: were at 0.9, then we're at 1.1, and now we're
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  Speaker 2: at 1.7. Doesn't that give us some pause, even though
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  Speaker 2: it's still all in optimal? We're seeing a trend here.
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  Speaker 2: You're moving. And that movement may be telling us something
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit earlier than waiting for you to have
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  Speaker 2: symptoms like hair falling out or skin being dry or
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  Speaker 2: feeling fatigued all the time. And so even with your
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  Speaker 2: own blood work, even though you may not know, well,
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  Speaker 2: how am I supposed to know? I didn't know that
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  Speaker 2: optimals on thyroid was 0.8 to 2. How am I
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  Speaker 2: supposed to know that with what I'm looking at? But
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  Speaker 2: let's say for the vast majority of blood tests, they're
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  Speaker 2: mostly in the middle. So let's take a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more dicey of a blood value. On a comprehensive metabolic panel,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see an ALKFOS, which stands for alkaline phosphatase. You
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  Speaker 2: could do some research on it. If tissue is being destroyed,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be quite high, and that would be
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  Speaker 2: a cancer situation, believe it or not. Or heart attack
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  Speaker 2: or something where maybe you've had a surgery or you've
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  Speaker 2: been pretty badly damaged, bruised, whatever, and your alkaline phosphatase
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  Speaker 2: will be quite high because that will find its way
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  Speaker 2: outside of the cell into the bloodstream, and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see it as a high ALK-PHOS. So optimals
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  Speaker 2: are 70 to 90, but we were just looking at
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  Speaker 2: what the lab said Normal was, or medical normal, which
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  Speaker 2: was 30 to 125. That is a huge range. When
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  Speaker 2: alkaline phosphatase is below 70, that usually means a zinc
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  Speaker 2: deficiency along with other trace minerals. But when alkaline phosphatase
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  Speaker 2: is high above 90, it means that we have tissue
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  Speaker 2: destruction going on. And we ought to be taking at
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  Speaker 2: least a little bit of a notice that where could
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  Speaker 2: this tissue destruction be coming from. So these are some ideas.
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  Speaker 2: You could simply do that with anything. Hey, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like my bilirubin is X. Well, when I get it
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  Speaker 2: done next year, let's see how much it's moved. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be lower than it was the year before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's good or not, but hey,
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  Speaker 2: at least I can watch it. It's well within medical
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  Speaker 2: normals and it seems to be right in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: And so as you get more and more blood tests,
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  Speaker 2: you'll start to see where you're starting to venture outside
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  Speaker 2: of the range. Now what's fascinating is let's say you
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  Speaker 2: already see something that is venturing that way because you've
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  Speaker 2: got three. Then you could say, okay, what are some
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  Speaker 2: symptoms with, oh, let's say potassium outside of the range.
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  Speaker 2: And when you look up and Google that, you might
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  Speaker 2: find that the symptoms that it gives you would be like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting to have some of those. What do I do? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily telling you to go take potassium, But
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  Speaker 2: it does mean that you have some cells that are
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  Speaker 2: probably not very happy with you and you probably should
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  Speaker 2: start working on your diet and start fixing some things.
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  Speaker 2: And now people will ask me, well, my gosh, what
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  Speaker 2: do I do for my diet? And I might, depending
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  Speaker 2: on the individual, look at them kind of incredulously. And
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  Speaker 2: the reason why I would think that was incredible as
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  Speaker 2: I looked at them, because I'll ask people, hey, do
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  Speaker 2: you mind if I ask you a couple of questions
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  Speaker 2: to see how good your knowledge is of what your
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  Speaker 2: nutrition should be? Sure. Do you think you should eat
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  Speaker 2: candy or do you think you should eat vegetables? Oh, vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think you should eat fast food or you
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  Speaker 2: think you should probably cook at home? Oh, probably cook
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  Speaker 2: at home. Okay. Do you think you should eat more
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  Speaker 2: organic food or more processed food like frozen vegetables instead
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  Speaker 2: of fresh vegetables? Oh, probably fresh vegetables. I said, here's
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  Speaker 2: the funny thing. You already know. You know exactly what
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  Speaker 2: to do. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is kind of innate and in there. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in our day and age, if we have some people
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  Speaker 2: that have been raised on McDonald's all their life, they
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  Speaker 2: actually legitimately may get this question wrong, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 2: They absolutely may not know it all. And in that case,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, we would like to eat some vegetables
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  Speaker 2: with every meal and be limited with fruits because fruits
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of sugar, even though they do have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of vitamins. and they do have some trace minerals,
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  Speaker 2: but they're a lot of water and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: sugar now breads are pretty much devoid of nutrition unless
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  Speaker 2: you're grinding your own grain and so if you grind
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  Speaker 2: your own grain because you love bread then excellent to
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  Speaker 2: you Maybe you find somebody that's willing to grind grain
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  Speaker 2: and make bread, and they're willing to sell it to you. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's worth it. So there's these little ideas out there
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  Speaker 2: that as we go through this process, hey, I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to upgrade part of my diet. Instead of McDonald's,
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to upgrade to, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe an Arby's. I don't even know if their roast
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  Speaker 2: beef is real. But you could say, okay, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to eat their roast beef, but I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to eat the bun. Okay, great. That's an upgrade. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: instead of drinking soda pop that's got flavorings and colorings
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  Speaker 2: in it and artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go with a more organic pop that's
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  Speaker 2: clear and not colored with caramel coloring because it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: bad for me. And it's got real sugar instead of
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  Speaker 2: high fructose corn syrup. Hey, that's a win, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: You just upgraded tremendously. hey, instead of regular coffee, I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to go with an organic coffee because
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  Speaker 2: it's got a lot of pesticides on coffee. And I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to go with a lighter roast instead
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  Speaker 2: of a darker roast because the more you roast something,
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  Speaker 2: the worse it is for you. You know, there's just
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  Speaker 2: these little things that we can upgrade and do, but
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  Speaker 2: it all comes from looking at trends on a blood
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  Speaker 2: test that I think any of us could probably figure out, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm moving in not a good direction and I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: more and more symptoms. I think I need to turn
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  Speaker 2: myself around. So the trends that you see on your
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  Speaker 2: blood tests are not necessarily so difficult to understand. And
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  Speaker 2: I think with a little bit of careful thought, we
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  Speaker 2: can do some pretty amazing things in a short period
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  Speaker 2: of time by just dietarily being conscious about what we're
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  Speaker 2: eating and paying attention to our blood tests in a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different way. So those are my two cents
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  Speaker 2: on blood values and blood trends. Until next time, I'm Dr. Troy,
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  Speaker 2: and remember... there really is way more right with you
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  Speaker 2: than there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 1: The information on Dr. Troy Munson's podcast is meant to
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  Speaker 1: educate the listener and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,
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  Speaker 1: or prevent disease.