Which tests does the speaker say are rarely or never ordered?

Name: Are outdated lab tests putting your health at risk? Learn what modern labs you should ask for! 🩺💡
Uploaded: 2024-12-19T00:19:33+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Anu Simh
Description: A YouTube video by Anu Simh (uploaded Dec 19, 2024) arguing that many clinicians still use lab panels unchanged from 30–35 years ago and that this…

Anu SimhBoard-Certified Functional Health Coach | Founder of 9 Arms of Wellness | Gut & Weight Loss Expert

Are outdated lab tests putting your health at risk? Learn what modern labs you should ask for! 🩺💡

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Anu Simh (uploaded Dec 19, 2024) arguing that many clinicians still use lab panels unchanged from 30–35 years ago and that this shortcuts good medicine. The speaker lists several modern tests that are often omitted—vitamin D, hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), homocysteine, lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)), and apolipoprotein B (ApoB)—and notes practice is slowly changing but remains behind current science.

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Vitamin D; hemoglobin A1c; homocysteine; lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)); apolipoprotein B (ApoB).

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They're good doctors. But I think it's bad medicine to order the same lab panel you ordered 30 years ago or 35 years ago when I started practice. And it is the same. Rarely a vitamin D, rarely a hemoglobin A1c, never a homocysteine, never a lipoprotein, little A. That's changing a little bit, that's starting to get a bit more popular, and almost never an apolipoprotein B. So anyways, I, I do think that we are shortcutting good medicine by practicing old habits that aren't flying with all the science we have for some of these things I mentioned.