The 3  Reasons Most Doctors Miss Finding The TRUE CAUSE Of Your Health Problems!

#1 –INADEQUATE OR OUTDATED TESTING

In our clinic, (and right here on our website!) we confidently tell our clients:

‘We uncover the HIDDEN, ROOT CAUSES of poor health that most doctors miss.’

Exactly how do we do that, you ask?

Let’s talk about the 3 biggest MISSING PIECES to your personal health puzzle.

First, let’s about the way we TEST people in order to uncover these HIDDEN, ROOT CAUSES of their stubborn symptoms.

See, poor health leaves clues…

And we are medical detectives!

So, question…

Can most doctors fix a problem that they don’t see?

In other words, imagine you HAVE a problem.

(You probably don’t have to imagine if you’re reading this)

But your doctor just does NOT see it.

How can a doctor fix a problem that he or she does not see?

What we hear all the time is this:

‘Doc, I don’t look my best (for example, ‘This is the most I’ve ever weighed’) and I don’t feel my best…

…I KNOW my body and I am just NOT functioning at my best.’

It’s like your sleep, your digestion, your energy, your hair, skin and nails, your sex life, your metabolism –these are just NOT good and you KNOW it…

But still, our patients tell us –

(Here it comes…)

‘My doctor says my lab tests are normal’

So, is this you?

See in our world, (the exciting, new field of medicine known as Functional Medicine, or Lifestyle Medicine) our approach to HEALTH is fundamentally different than most doctors.

Remember, we uncover the HIDDEN, ROOT CAUSES of poor health.

How do we do that, you ask?

First and foremost, we TEST people differently.

Second, we interpret the results VERY differently.

Believe me, we’re not smarter.

We just have a different set of tools and a different perspective about health.

So, we’re able to find the things that other doctors miss.

(That’s why we call it the missing piece)

See, in Functional Medicine we look for different things that doctors who are not focused on wellness and prevention DO NOT look for.

And then we go about restoring FUNCTION to the things that they MISSED.

But not only restoring function, so that you merely ‘feel better’.

That’s not enough!

We restore and then OPTIMIZE your health potential.

So, ADVANCED TESTING is one of the main MISSING pieces to your health problems and a main reason that we are DIFFERENT.

Here’s an example we see all the time in our clinic…

So, here’s a question for you.

 

It’s a question that most DOCTORS are not asking.

 

But they should.

 

Could there be a flaw in these regular blood tests – specifically, are they INCOMPLETE?

 

Today’s example will be testing for THYROID…

First, let’s talk quickly about what we’re looking for when we test your thyroid.

For the most part, we are looking for LOW thyroid function, what’s called HYPOTHYROID

Now, when something causes your thyroid gland to weaken and not produce enough thyroid hormone – that’s a problem!

See, that’s they thyroid’s job.

It’s a gland, and glands produce hormones which are chemical messengers that leave the gland and travel through the blood to affect other cells.

So, when something interferes with this, you will experience the symptoms of low thyroid…

These include cold hands and feet, constipation, brain fog, depression, loss of or thinning of hair, dry skin, low libido, and the inability to lose weight no matter how little you eat or how much you exercise…

Other than that, you’re fine!

Now, when your thyroid just isn’t working up to par your BRAIN knows it.

So, what does it do?

It screams down to your thyroid, ‘Hey, get to work down there!”

Well, it doesn’t talk, it uses a hormone called TSH – Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.

So, when we look at REGULAR blood work to confirm a person has LOW thyroid, what do we expect to see?

If you said HIGH TSH, you are correct.

In other words, when there is a problem with your thyroid gland, your brain responds by increasing the amount of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.

So HIGH TSH means low thyroid – make sense?

Here’s the problem…

Is that enough?

Can something else cause low thyroid symptoms, even though TSH is normal?

Is testing only for TSH enough, or is it INCOMPLETE and INADEQUATE?

As it turns out, even though your doctor says your lab work is normal, (even though your TSH is normal), you can STILL have every thyroid symptom in the book.

 

So, here’s the rest of the story…

(And why you need ADVANCED testing)

 

We talked about the thyroid gland making thyroid hormone.

Well, the MAIN thyroid hormone is something called T4.

Doctors call this ‘inactive’ thyroid – its basically in the OFF position.

That hormone gets turned into a hormone called T3.

Doctors call T3 ‘active’ thyroid – its in the ON position.

That process, called conversion, occurs mostly in the liver and in the gut.

So, it depends…hear this now…it depends on the health of your liver and gut!

And then, finally, this hormone T3 goes into all of your body cells.

That’s why thyroid hormone is so special – it goes into EVERY cell of your body – that’s not true of most hormones.

Now, what would happen if your thyroid gland was totally fine – no problem at all…

However, there was a HUGE problem in this process called conversion?

Well, you would not make enough of the active hormone T3.

You would have lots of thyroid symptoms, even though the gland itself was fine.

And your doctor will tell you…

‘Your lab tests are fine.’

To make matters worse, what if conversion was not a problem…

However, at the last minute, something else, something totally different, interfered with T3 actually going into the cell – something blocked it?

Again, you would have lots of thyroid symptoms, even though the gland itself was fine, and the conversion was fine.

In other words, you will have thyroid symptoms, even though your doctor says your lab work is normal.

You see, if you ONLY look at TSH, you will MISS all these other things.

Unfortunately, the REGULAR bloodwork that you’re used to does NOT usually include ALL these other tests…

So, most doctors don’t see a problem at all.

Even though you STILL thyroid symptoms!

I hope you can appreciate the ENORMOUS difference this makes – this one thing – the fact that regular lab work is INCOMPLETE (which is why we do all these other important tests) – is often the difference in success or failure in resolving thyroid symptoms.

Because again, how can a doctor solve a problem he or she does not see?

To see these things, you can’t use REGULAR lab work

You need Advanced Metabolic Lab Work.

Incomplete testing results in frustration and failure, but MORE, ADVANCED METABOLIC tests results in success.

Because the FIRST step in helping people is UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN, ROOT CAUSES of poor health that other doctors have MISSED…

That’s why, again, we call this…

 

The Missing Piece

 

(There are other missing pieces, we’ll find those, too!)

 

#2 – OVERLOOKING NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

In conventional medicine, treating a person’s symptoms, sickness and disease is like looking to rebuild a car that has just gone off a cliff.

You need to send a tow truck and an ambulance!

But looking for health is different.

That’s noticing that the check engine light is on, you’re out of brake fluid and the car is running out of gas.

We need to take care of these things BEFORE we go off the cliff, right?

In our office, we do not suppress or even treat symptoms.

Instead, we address ROOT CAUSES.

So, in Functional Medicine we look for different things that doctors who are not focused on wellness and prevention DO NOT look for.

Let’s talk about one of these differences today.

Despite their doctor’s good intentions, our patients STILL suffer from things like REALLY stubborn weight loss resistance, blood sugar imbalances and persistent thyroid symptoms.

Things like digestive distress, bloating and irritable bowel syndrome.

Like brain fog.

Like fibromyalgia and joint pain.

Like mood swings, anxiety and depression.

Like infertility and hormone imbalances.

These are conditions that we see here every day – and there is NO doubt that a BIG part of the reason we get the clinical results that we do, often when traditional medicine fails, is because we ASK a question most doctors DO NOT ask.

(And then we answer it!)

So, here’s the question…

Are you NUTRITIONALLY DEFICIENT?

Nutritional Deficiency is the #1 cause of most of the chronic health challenges we see in this office – the things I just mentioned.

But the ordinary bloodwork that you’re used to does NOT test for that.

Once again, you need Advanced Metabolic Lab Work.

Why is NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY even a thing?

I tell patients this…

The demands of modern living, the enormous physical, chemical and emotional stress on our body PLUS the poor quality of food due to the insufficient mineral content of our soil…

These two things will guarantee that you are deficient in key nutrients.

Essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes, essential fatty acids.

Essential means your body must have them but cannot make them.

A lot of people ask us…

Well, doc can’t I just take a multivitamin?

The problem is that the amount of real nutrition in most of these commercial SYNTHETIC products you’re getting on the shelf at your local Vitamin Shoppe…

It’s so small!

But to fix a major deficiency – to change a chronic condition…

You need a lot of what you’re deficient in, and it can’t be synthetic.

Synthetic vitamins are FAKE.

Are your vitamins synthetic?

 Yes, (most likely) because 95% of ALL supplements are FAKE!

Here is a perfect example, we see this all the time.

Let’s say we test a person’s vitamin D level and it is 17.

Now, the optimal range is 50-80.

Under 30 is total vitamin D deficiency and under 20 is pathologically low.

This person is a 17!

This is the biggest thing in breast cancer research, right now.

Vitamin D is actually called a ‘prohormone’ – a huge player in your endocrine system.

(That’s your hormones.)

Here in New Jersey vitamin D deficiency is common because we don’t see the sun half the year.

Most synthetic multivitamins, which have maybe 400 IU are not going to get the job done!

This person with pathologically low vitamin D…

They need 5,000-10,000/day but getting only 400!

See the problem?

B Vitamin deficiency is also very common these days.

Do you know why?

Stress destroys your B vitamins!

But so does gluten.

Did you know that nearly 40% of Americans are gluten intolerant?

They have a sensitivity to it and might not even know it!

Gluten is like glue, that’s where the name comes from, it’s a very sticky protein.

And it just damages the villi, the microvilli in your small intestine.

That just where you absorb all your nutrients.

So, when that happen you become nutrient deficient.

This leads to over 200 different health conditions.

Everything depends on adequate nutrition to the cells, right?

 

How can you make new, healthy cells without the raw materials, the proper healthy nutrients, from the proper healthy food?

 

So, what specific nutrients are YOU deficient in but don’t even know it?

Foods are supposed to nourish and help the body heal.

What a concept, right?

We need to discover exactly what those deficiencies are in order to get you balanced.

And the only way to do that is to test – we don’t guess we test.

Because we know if we can take you from nutritional deficiency to nutritional sufficiency.

Then we can help a lot of people…

We do it every day.

Remember…

The diagnosis and treatment (suppression) of symptoms (most doctors) is different than the detection and correction of nutritional deficiencies (us).