Dr. Tabatha Barber says most lab tests your doctor orders come from hospital settings designed to catch acute illness, not measure wellness. Using these "sick-cohort" reference ranges to assess your health is misleading.
That is a really important point. Ooh, okay, if you missed that, you gotta like rewind it a minute and listen to that again because we are comparing ourselves to our sick cohorts. That is not okay. And really the labs that so many primary care providers are drawing are labs that were first created to be checked in the hospital, in the emergency room, to see whether or not you need to be admitted and you need IV fluids and, you know, sodium and potassium replacement and all these major things. So it has nothing to do actually with health and wellness. 100%. Yes. Oh my gosh, crazy. Okay.
