I'm Dr.
Rajani, and today I'm talking about five lab tests that you need to know
about and take responsibility for that just aren't getting ordered.
And these are my patients coming back to me saying, Hey, I didn't get that.
Oh, I didn't get that.
I saw your video on this, but their doctor either just didn't talk to them about
it or actually wouldn't order it for.
We must keep in mind that your general practitioners these days
are acting like gatekeepers.
They're doing what's recommended for the general population, not necessarily what's
exactly right for you, given your history, lifestyle, activities, family history.
It's you need designer medicine now, and more and more we're looking
right directly at your genes to see exactly what's right for.
Given the illnesses that potentially are coming forward many years down the road,
prevention is way better than cure, and that's what this video is all about.
What am I talking about?
Number one, let's talk about hormone replacement therapy.
One of the top ones, cuz I'm dealing with women all day long, they come say,
well, they refused to order it for me.
If you're a woman, the things you want to.
R, estrogen, progesterone, total estradiol, lh, F S H, and D H E A.
Just to name a few, but understand that a woman might go into menopause.
I'm seeing low estrogen levels in the mid to late thirties, but
let's just take the age of 50.
Quite possible.
You're gonna live to a hundred and your perimenopausal 45 to 50.
That means you might go half of your life without hormones.
I have a whole video on hormones for females.
It's worth watching, but that's a test to consider if you're
a male, think testosterone.
I think it's a good idea to get a baseline in your.
, but by mid forties to fifties, you want to think about not just a screening
total, but also a free, because there's something called sex hormone binding
globulin, and that will bind to your testosterone and partake in the total.
So you want to think about a panel.
If you're a male as well, not just the screening test that you might
get ordered for you, the time of the day is something else to consider.
And when you're getting these in relation to sexual activity and so
on, but one of the top ones of people never get for wellness, keep in mind
there's a lot you can do naturally to help boost your testosterone from.
Just breathing through your nose has been shown to increase growth hormone exercise,
increasing muscle mass, sexual activity.
If you don't use it, you certainly lose it.
Foods, ashwaganda, Tong, cat, there's all kinds of things that
you can do that are natural.
Doesn't mean you have to go on hormones, but you wanna be aware of
what might be causing your symptom.
Number two is a simple ua, a urinalysis, microscopically looking at a urine sample.
Now, this is inexpensive under 10 bucks or so, but people come back and they don't
get it and their doctor won't order it.
Think about it.
Simply finding red cells in the urine could indicate a renal cell
carcinoma or a cancer in the kidney and the blood, a little bit of blood.
A precursor to what could be coming.
Many things can cause blood in the urine, but for under $10 test, there's some
other things you can find out that's your filtration system in the body.
You should know what you're filtering.
I had a case of a gentleman, he, this is many years ago, he was.
50, uh, he had his part of a screening test for the state.
It was in Canada for, so part of the pro provincial screening.
Uh, he worked for the medical system and they just did these and there
were three red cells in the urine.
Ah, okay.
Let's repeat that.
Repeat it.
Nothing.
No red cells.
I was still pretty suspicious.
Let's repeat it one more.
Because that you could pick something up that's important.
20 red blood cells, come to find out renal cell carcinoma.
He's alive to this day.
It's like 25, 35 years ago, so you, and that's a deadly cancer.
So a simple ua, inexpensive, you want to consider it.
Number three, you want to consider this a lot of stigma around it,
and it's your digestive tract.
And what I'm thinking is colon cancer and the goal standards, colonoscopy,
put a scope up and you look.
Now, a lot of people don't want to have that test.
I've had two already.
It's not a big deal.
But if you don't want to have it, there's other things you can do.
A simple piece of paper.
You can check for blood in the stool with a, take a piece of paper, put
a little stool sample on it, and there's a reagent they use and it
will light up if there's blood that shows that maybe there's a cancer.
The other thing that's really cool that I like is something called colo Guard.
, by the way, I get paid nothing for this.
There's no affiliate links, um, but call Cologuard and
it, it detects 92% of cancers.
And what it looks for is dna n a as the stool's going down.
If there's a cancer, it will smudge off a little d n a and you see
the DNA n a from a cancer cell.
And it also looks for red blood cells, or red or blood in the stool,
which would indicate a problem.
Uh, but if you don't want to have a colonoscopy because you're worried
about the test or there's a stigma around it, there are things you
can do that are much less invasive.
And 92 percent's a pretty good number.
So that's something you wanna look into.
Number four, vitamin D.
No one's checking vitamin D levels even.
It's been in the news for the past four years.
Of course, vitamin D helps your immune system, but also all cause mortality.
And I highlighted that in the video a few months ago where it's been
shown that people at lower levels of vitamin D don't live as long.
Because if you get sick or ill, for instance, and you have low vitamin
D levels, your immune system's down also, keep in mind, Cancer a lot of
times is an immune system problem.
A weak immunity doesn't fight off those AB cells that are formed.
So checking your vitamin D, what's a level that you wanna look for?
20 to 50 nanograms, 20 to forties accepted nanograms per ml.
There's a lot of people who are in the know that want to run between 40
to a hundred, but in terms of dosing of supplements, some people, because.
Your doctor typically won't measure it for you.
Now you can get these tests on your own.
You can do these at home.
If you want to know about these home tests, put, let me
know in the comments below.
I'll start to put links to these tests.
But there are, people just run their supplements and don't test their levels.
If you're running a supplement, you're thinking five to 10,000
international units a day.
The recommended level is about, uh, 600 to a thousand international units.
A.
Most people in the know are running at least five to 10,000
international units of vitamin D.
My k2 D three for example, uh, has 100 micrograms of k2.
The D level in there is 5,000 international units, and
that's what I take daily.
Finally, ts h, particularly for women, they're more affected by this.
How many women come in and they say, Hey, I'm.
Don't quite feel myself.
Maybe irregular periods.
Um, dry skin, of course, I'm seeing skin all day long.
Dry skin, not quite themselves.
The thyroids like the regulator in your car or the, the idler in the car.
And if it's running a little low, you're sluggish.
But here's the problem.
A lot of people, the screening test is a T S H.
That's not good.
That won't pick up the majority of them, and 10% of women are affected by this.
That's a high number.
So when you're thinking about getting your thyroid test, think about
TSA tssh a good screening test.
You also want to think about t3, t4, reverse t3.
Antithyroglobulin and thyroid peroxidase antibodies.
You wanna look for antibodies, uh, that are affecting the
thyroid, thyroid production.
So it's complex.
Each of those are beyond, uh, the discussion of exactly what
to get and what the tests mean.
But just understand that you want to take care of your health.
You're responsible, and the healthcare system that we have today is not looking
out necessarily for your best interest, but, The general population and these
things cost money, and often, uh, medical systems do not want to pay for that.
Stay tuned here.
Keep your skin and body beautiful, healthy and vibrant.