What your salvia can tell you about your health #functionalmedicine #shorts

Name: What your salvia can tell you about your health #functionalmedicine #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-05-28T14:15:00+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this short, the speaker promotes saliva testing as a functional‑medicine diagnostic tool. They explain that instead of simply prescribing supplements…

28 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this short, the speaker promotes saliva testing as a functional‑medicine diagnostic tool. They explain that instead of simply prescribing supplements to raise or lower a lab value, saliva results are used to match specific hormone or biomarker levels with the patient’s “mystery” symptoms. The speaker claims that many patients feel their symptoms are finally explained, contrasting this approach with conventional practitioners who may dismiss symptoms when blood work appears normal. Saliva testing is presented as an alternative that clarifies why a person feels unwell.

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That's the beauty of saliva testing. When we show our results to people, it isn't just, oh look, this is low, you need to take some of this to raise it, or take some of this to block it, to lower it, whatever it might be. So we're not treating the paper. We're saying people with these levels typically have certain symptoms, and people are always amazed that it explains how they feel. They're not used to going to a practitioner that explains, you know, they're not mysteries anymore. So there's these so-called mystery symptoms, and a lot of practitioners are just shrugging their shoulder. I don't know why you that way, your blood work looks normal. So this is the alternative to that, which explains exactly why you feel so lousy.