Testing – Functional Medicine Back to Basics

Power Health Talk with Dr. Martin Rutherford

https://youtu.be/3NqHRYgeT-Q In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses proper testing and how more testing is not always better. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford back again with our functional medicine back to basics series I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford, chiropractor, functional medicine, practitioner or clinic director here at power, health in Reno Nevada, and today We've done history. We've done. It is a series for both some of you who, just for some reason, poked. You know, decided to watch a video on testing. We've already done a general overview of what functional medicine should look like. We've done something called obstacle secure. We have done the history and the application to a functional medicine practice versus a medical practice. Same thing, with with the testing we've done testing, functional medicine practice versus a medical practice. As far as the exam exam testing, and today we're, doing lab testing. We're. Probably there's. A lot of lab testing that you can do there's, a lot of specialty testing that depends on who you're, treating what you're treating, but I'm going to go over the core of Testing today and I'm gonna make, I'm gonna try to make it clear what the confusion is out there relative to lab ranges, and also I'm gonna walk through kind of a just, a General overall basic testing test list of tests that I choose from to run across the board on so many of our patients, because it's relevant to our patient population and our patient population is, is chronic pain, autoimmunity pretty much anything short of cancer. That comes and won't, go away yeah, essentially so so that's. We're gonna do today, and I'm gonna start off with lab testing. One of the things that propelled functional medicine into the into the into the lexicon into the conversation was was the the changing of lab mangez. Now, when you go to your doctor, you go to your doctor and you get a lab test and the lab test has has the wit they're testing, so it'll, say glucose, and then it has the result. In this particular case, it's 94, and then it ' Ll have something where it's a flag and that flag will say high or low or normal, okay and and and then that flag is usually relevant to the range that they say you should have for glucose. So in here the range would be 65 to 99, all right, and so, if you're in that range, they would say they would say nothing if they were above it below it, the flag would say high or low okay, so that's pretty basic, I'm feeling. Most of you are pretty familiar with that. If the problem is is when we started doing this, and - and we was a group of doctors that I was involved with a long time ago - and and we were on a boards together - and we shared information and and and the problem was that, as you've already heard everybody comes in here, and everybody probably comes into most functional medicine. Practice comes in with lab ranges that are normal. There's, nothing wrong with yesterday. Yesterday, one's, got polycystic ovarian syndrome and the other one probably has Graves disease, which is a fairly serious thyroid problem. But yet both of them had normal ranges, they all had. They all had the labs. I mean they all had that. All of the symptoms of these conditions, but they're, but they're live ranges were normal. So what do we do with that back then? What do we do with that? Well, there's. A gentleman named Harry Einar. He is a biochemist at a --, biotics and Harry is a pretty bright guy and Harry spent. I believe, ten years taking all of the pathological lab ranges and shrinking them down until they started to...