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Recorded live · October 28, 2026

How to Make Sense of Your Lab Results

Understanding the difference between normal and optimal.

Free replay · 23 min

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Chapters

  1. 0:00Welcome

  2. 1:10What “normal” tells you

  3. 2:00Three guides for one number

  4. 4:27Where “normal” comes from

  5. 6:14Optimal, in my practice

  6. 8:30Meet Mark

  7. 9:40Same lab, six years

  8. 11:55Five numbers you may already have

  9. 14:45Where health management fits

  10. 17:12What’s in the serum vs. the cell

  11. 18:40The systems level

  12. 20:33A working model

  13. 21:10A first plan for Mark

  14. 22:13Three things to remember

Inside the class

What the video covers

  1. 01What a laboratory reference range can and cannot tell you
  2. 02Why a trend may be more useful than one isolated result
  3. 03How common markers can relate to one another
  4. 04Why more testing is not always the next step

This class is general health education, not personal medical advice. Watching does not establish a physician-patient relationship.

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