Bloodwork and How Blood Works | Fitfam Podcast Ep. 23

28/09/2023 48 min Temporada 1 Episodio 23

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Episode Synopsis

Doug, The Formulator, and Ms. Natural Olympia Champ, Hilary Grant, share the importance of blood work. Do lab tests, get the nutrients your body needs, and keep track and make changes to your nutrient regimen to help you live longer healthier, and happier lives.

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The FitFam podcasts discuss research and methods for becoming and staying healthy the natural way through Focused Intense Thought, Nutrition, Exercise, and Specific Supplementation or FITNESS. Using these principles, you’ll learn to improve your health from the cellular level out.

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Episode Time Stamps 

00:00 Halloween and BLOOD

01:17 History of blood

01:42 “Draw the line in the sand”

02:10 95% of all disease is preventable or curable

02:49 Bridging alternative medicine and our career

04:35 Doug sharing a memory

05:16 NBA bloodwork story

07:25 Understanding your own blood

08:35 What is BLOOD 

10:19 Just a few Blood drop contains 250 million red blood cells and half a million white blood cells

11:06 Focus on the cell will lead people to Optimal Health

12:23 Quotes

13:40 How blood cells are created

14:20 A client's blood work

15:25 Importance of blood work done & Nutrient Rx

16:50 Clinical low and clinical high 

20:20 How to look at your bloodwork 

20:20 Get a copy of your bloodwork, you have the right 

20:36 Number one risk for heart disease

21:05 Bad Cholesterol vs Good Cholesterol on your bloodwork 

21:00 HDL, Ratio and cholesterol

23:20 LDL, more than heart disease

23:53 Hilary’s Blood work as an example

24:20 Type of heart disease to look for in your blood work

25:00 Sugar in the blood

25:35 Where should your total cholesterol be

26:00 How Hillary tackled her blood work

26:45 C-Reactive Protein

27:22 Leading cause of disease

27:45 Protein

29:15 Hilary talks about how our genetics play a role

29:56 TIP: shoulder blade pain can be referred pain from the gallbladder due to fat digestion

30:04 Back to Protein and Gout

31:55 Joy of working with people’s bloodwork and their nutrition 

32:40 Back to Protein and Gout

33:08 Thyroid 

34:00 How our organs, gland and thyroid run off of nutrients. For Thyroid, it’s iodine and iodide

34:50 Importance of bloodwork and markers

35:00 KEY TO ENERGY AND VITALITY IS estrogen and testosterone balance

35:40 hematocrit 

36:45 white blood cells

37:48 Detecting parasites through blood work with Nutrient Rx

40:35 Organ health (kidney and liver)

41:58 Simple things can improve your health!

42:24 Russel Brunson’s bloodwork story

43:15 The need to get blood work done

43:33 See your health improve outward AND INWARD 

45:20 RECAP

46:30 Doug’s “cool” medal, is it gaudy enough or not?

47:24 90% of nutrients, supplements

48:09 Blood work is the river of life


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