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The Dangers of “Normal” Blood Test Ranges: Optimal vs Normal & How Blood Test Ranges Are Made
If your Dr sais your blood test are normal yet you’re experiencing frustrating symptoms, question them, respectfully. Why to be sceptical of reference ranges and look deeper? When a lab is setting up a new blood test, they can use the manufacturer’s range based on.. 1) Reagents provided (pre-made solutions) 2) Published reference ranges 3)…
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Icing Your Injuries Is Dumb
Remember the ‘RICE’ protocol? Rest, Ice, Elevate, Compress? Well, the guy who invented it doesn’t agree with it. “My RICE guidelines have been used for decades, but new research shows rest and ice actually delay healing and recovery,” says Mirkin, now 84. “If your muscles are sore, you can relieve that pain with ice. But…
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How To Detect A B12 Deficiency
Just because your B12 is in range doesn’t mean it’s good! Serum B12 blood test is pretty 💩 at detecting deficiency. Be skeptical if your Doctor sais ‘your B12 is in range you’re normal’, yet you’re experiencing adverse symptoms (fatigue, memory problems, weakness, dizziness, infertility) or just want to be proactive with your health. Who…
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Your Blood Test Is Not Normal Part 1 – Iron | How You Could Be Anemic & Not Know It
IF I HEAR ANOTHER DOC SAY YOUR BLOOD TEST IS NORMAL 😡😠🤬 Read until the end if you want to know how to identify iron deficiency anaemia even though your bloods are in normal ranges. I’ve heard this story too many times… Client does blood tests I ask for… Everything is in range and ‘normal’…
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How Testosterone Plummets During A Caloric Deficit
Here’s an example of what usually happens to your testosterone in an aggressive long caloric deficit pushing <8% body fat. This is from a client who lost 10kg and got very lean (<40mm 9 site skinfolds and <8% body fat). Lower T with very low body fat is one reason we see: Infertility (lower semen…
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Reducing Stress & Anxiety with B-Vitamins & Magnesium
Ever wonder why people say to take magnesium before bed or b-vitamins for stress? S-Adenosyl Methionine (SAM) is a compound found in nearly all tissues in the body that plays a critical role in breaking down catecholamines (neurotransmitters/stress hormones). You need B-vitamins and magnesium to generate enough SAM. Thus if we are deficient in any…
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Get Strong & Fast: The Speed Reserve Transfer Effect
WHY SPEED MATTERS! By increasing our maximal outputs we can increase our average sub-maximal outputs. Therefore the exact same intensity of running speed POST speed adaptation will feel easier than it did previously = you can tolerate performing the old speed (pre-improvement) for longer. Now you have developed a larger speed reserve to tap into…
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Does Carbohydrate Timing Post Exercise Matter?
Yes, it does. But like most things there’s nuance. It depends. If you’re asking, ‘when should I take my carbohydrates after exercising?’ this article will aim to answer that question. Here are two interesting studies from the 1990s. 12-30mmol/kg wet weight/hr of glycogen storage within 1h post-exercise. Key Points To Post-Exercise Carbohydrate Timing: Exercise provides…
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Heat Stress & Sauna
Ultimate Resource: The Complete Science of Sauna (Found My Fitness) One thing that sauna use has repeatedly been shown to do in observational studies and intervention trials is to induce protective responses against the deleterious biological processes that drive cardiovascular disease and related disability. In fact, more studies are showing that some of these responses…
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The Return of Strength of Saad (Death & Rebirth)
Many go about their lives telling themselves and others, ‘you’re okay the way you are’. When I decided to stop Strength of Saad nearly 2 years ago I came to the painful realisation that ‘I’m NOT okay the way I am’. I no longer felt I was living with integrity and virtue. Who I was…
