Will Your Blood Test Detect Vitamin Deficiencies?

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so the question today is will your blood test actually reveal your vitamin deficiencies a lot of times when you go to the doctor they’ll do a CBC which is a complete blood count which they measure that how many red blood cells and white blood cells you have the hemoglobin the iron and then you may get something called the basic metabolic panel which measures a lot of things all basic organ systems a few nutrients it might check iron b12 sodium chloride calcium maybe potassium and in your mind you’re thinking well this is going to evaluate all my nutritional deficiencies not quite because what’s happening in the blood or the serum is not happening inside the cell and if we take magnesium for example 99% of all the magnesium in your body is inside the cell it’s called intracellular and if we take potassium it’s 98% of potassium is inside the cell that means only 2% of your potassium is inside the blood so only 1% of magnesium is in the blood which really does not give the true picture and there’s two things I want to differentiate classical nutritional deficiencies which would be like severe vitamin C vitamin D vitamin b3 or be one like scurvy or rickets or pellagra or berry berry a lot of times you don’t see those anymore and so if you don’t see those severe nutritional deficiencies you might think we’re fine we’re getting all of our nutrients from our diet but no we’re not because there are some clinical deficiencies and this is where doctors do not put a lot of attention they don’t have a lot of training and they definitely do not show up on a blood test these two blood tests right here subclinical nutritional deficiencies will give you certain symptoms of that deficiency but maybe not all of them could relate to the body’s ability to repair or longevity or even protecting your immune system against you know autoimmune conditions so let me give you a couple examples of symptoms with subclinical vitamin deficiencies so if your aid efficient night-vision would be your symptom or problems with the cornea okay of the eye or your skin might be a little bit thicker with D it’s definitely gonna be low back pain inflammation that’s a big one sometimes even nose bleeds vitamin E would be weak muscles poor recovery after exercise your muscles do not repair fast enough vitamin k1 bruising easily vitamin b1 would be anxiety or nervous tension be to crack corners in your mouth right through here or crack lips biotin would be problems with your nails it could be brittle nails the ridges in the nails and hair loss and then vitamin C would be bleeding gums and fatigue so these are just a few examples and what you’re definitely not going to evaluate when you do these two tests is a zinc deficiency or selenium and a vitamin D deficiency you have to ask for that separately did you realize that over two billion people on this planet are deficient in zinc and over a billion people are deficient in vitamin D yet these two are not tested often enough the problem with testing zinc especially in the blood is that it goes up and down through the day so depending on when you test ink it could be off by 20% also when you’re doing fasting like they always tell you to do fasting when you before you get your blood test it will spike zinc so you’re gonna get a false picture so it might show normal but then if you eat something it goes down inflammation when there’s inflammation in the body your zinc will be lower alright dr. Burke so that’s very interesting but how do we test for micronutrient deficiencies well I’m gonna recommend a blood test that evaluates these nutrients off of your lymphocytes okay it’s a very unique test there’s a company that specializes in this it’s called giselle I have no affiliation I don’t get any kickbacks I’m not an affiliate I put a link down below to check them out but this is one company that I’ve researched and I really like because it gives you an in-depth viewpoint on all these micronutrient deficiencies both trace minerals minerals and vitamins and antioxidants and there’s other companies as well that you can check out but just realize when you do these basic blood tests you’re not really getting the whole picture of what’s happening with your nutrients for these reasons thanks for watching hey if you haven’t already subscribed press the button below and I will keep you in the know hey that runs