Subclinical vs. Clinical Disease | DrEricBergDC

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so today i want to increase your awareness on the term

subclinical okay so let’s define what subclinical means

it’s a condition where you have very few if any symptoms

and no clinical findings that means you go to the doctor get a blood test

everything comes out normal okay whereas a clinical disease you have

symptoms and you have clinical findings you get a

blood test you find out some problem on your blood

test what i want to tell you is that a lot of health problems

especially the ones right here diabetes hypothyroidism

adrenal disease kidney disease and especially liver disease

start out as a subclinical problem and then

transition into a clinical issue so you have the beginning of a liver problem

or a blood sugar problem years before it shows up with certain testing

now you may notice some slight fatigue stiffness

inflammation but you might consider that normal when in fact it’s one of the

symptoms of one of these right here so let’s just take diabetes for example

before you become even a pre-diabetic you are you have insulin resistance and

there’s a great test it’s called homa dash ir

this is rarely ever done by your doctor but it’d be very very important if

diabetes runs in your family because this will pick up

resistance and they’re going to measure your insulin levels

okay while you’re fasting that’s one of the things that they measure

which comes way before you become even a pre-diabetic

or diabetic where you have abnormal blood sugars

so this would be a test that’s rarely done that would pick up

the beginning part of diabetes basically you can call it subclinical

diabetes now when we get into hypothyroidism i

believe doing a hair analysis from a credible

lab would give you some very important information about

the selenium status zinc status and iodine status of the entire body

which may not show up in your blood because when you’re low on selenium and

zinc and iodine it can turn into a hypothyroid condition

also high levels of estrogen let’s say you

have heavy periods or you’re taking birth control pills

things like that that could lead to a hypothyroid condition

or if you have liver problems you had your gallbladder removed

you’re low in bile that could eventually lead into a hypothyroid

condition because it’s important to understand

the evolution of these body conditions what

causes these conditions and that’s the best way to do it is to avoid those

things that can potentially cause these problems this right here is the

chronic consumption of carbohydrates eating too frequently this could be a

mineral deficiency or it could be stress or it can be too

much exposure to fluoride for example now when you check the blood for certain

minerals especially potassium and magnesium

uh rarely will it show up being a problem in the blood because

98 or 99 of those two minerals are inside the cell so you have to

understand that and know what tests to do because a blood test might not be the

best thing in that case maybe you want to do an

intracellular mineral test i’ll put a link down below of a good

company that i’ve used in the past and this will pick up mineral

deficiencies which could then lead into heart

arrhythmia problems down the road a cac

scan test coronary artery calcification test where you’re measuring

calcium inside the artery is a very good test to predict heart attacks down the

road not that expensive pretty quick you want

a score of a zero another good test to

look at the deeper areas of your lipids cholesterol

hdl ldl would be the advanced lipid testing which would

give you a much better picture of what’s going on

inside the arteries because this is going to measure the type of ldl

that would not create artery damage and the type of ldl that would create

damage in the inside of the arteries now with adrenal disease a lot of times

adrenal problems do not show up until the majority of the

gland is destroyed especially with a condition called addison’s which is an

autoimmune condition so one test to pick this up would be an

antibody test to the adrenal glands so you may have

the symptoms of adrenal issues but when you

do a blood test like nothing shows up with your hormones

and this is very very common with any hormone problems

i believe they all start out subclinically and then they eventually

turn into a clinical problem and so you really have to be

aware of the mechanism because if you don’t know

that and you put all your focus on this blood test

yet you ignore these other symptoms that could be related

and really don’t understand the subclinical part of it

then you could really miss a problem because you’re not handling a problem

before it becomes a bigger problem kidney disease is a common subclinical

issue one indicator is creatine on a blood

test your kidney has to be pretty severely

damaged before that shows up so you may have normal indicators on a

blood test yet have this start of a kidney disease

a huge percentage of kidney disease starts with insulin resistance and blood

sugar problems so again if you understand the mechanism

and the evolution of what causes what you can even avoid these issues right

here instead of waiting to become diagnosed liver disease

your liver is very robust and 90% of liver can be literally damaged yet

you have no symptoms at all a really good

indicator for a fatty liver would be a gut so a lot of times people look at

you know having a large gut that’s normal thing everyone has it it’s not a

problem and not realizing that the liver is so

fatty that the fat now is spilling over in other organs around the organs in

your mid section and they’re not connecting the

dots between a fatty liver and gut fat so you may not have other

symptoms but you may have a gut and that means you have a fatty liver

when i was in practice i sent five of my patients to the radiologist

for ultrasounds of their liver and five out

of five of these men that i sent over for this evaluation

had significant amounts of fat in their liver

so let’s learn from the mistakes of others and avoid

these problems over here by getting on a healthy keto

and an intermittent fasting program if you’re new to my channel i put a link

down below of exactly what you should be doing

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