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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

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