Show Notes
My cardiologist ran a full cardiac workup (MRI, stress test, ambulatory ECG, labs) and told me I was perfectly healthy. I was 40 lbs overweight, insulin-resistant, nutritionally deficient, and running on 2–4 hours of sleep. Everything was "normal." Nothing was fine. ▶ FREE email course: the exact steps I used to go from dysfunction toward resilient health (no cost, straight to your inbox): https://medgeeks.co/get-started/metabolic-health/ If you're a clinician, this one's for you. You read labs all day, but nobody is reading yours. And "normal" labs can hide a metabolism that's quietly drifting years before any diagnosis shows up. In this video, I break down the gap between what your bloodwork flags and what your body is actually doing; why conventional medicine is built to catch disease but not dysfunction, why the reference range fails you, and what it actually takes to move toward what I call resilient health. We cover insulin resistance, the reference range problem, cellular metabolism, an autoimmune marker (ANA) that turned negative once I fixed the underlying environment, and the full spectrum from dysfunction to disease-free to resilient health.
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