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Physiology Friday: [Optimal vs. Normal Health] Why Normal Reference Ranges Will Not Lead You to Optimal Health w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash and Dan Garner
About this episode
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- The spectrum of health from sick, to not sick, and to optimal.
- Optimal is a word thrown around with ease in the healthy space. What does optimal health look and feel like?
- Why are the current blood markers in a normal range and not optimal?
- Where are normal reference ranges created?
- If you want to know optimal ranges, where do you find them?
- Why are optimal ranges a better reference point than normal ranges?
- Hope can you be labeled "healthy" by normal ranges but still have underlying issues that go undetected?
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