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  • Understanding Thyroid Lab Tests: A Functional Medicine Approach

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    Karline Jensen
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    If you have been told your thyroid is fine because your TSH is normal, but you still feel exhausted, cold, and mentally foggy, you are not alone — and you are not imagining things. TSH is a useful starting point, but it is only one piece of a much larger picture. A functional medicine approach…

  • Assessing for Mitochondrial Dysfunction: A Lab-Based Approach

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    Karline Jensen
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    When a client’s symptoms point toward possible mitochondrial dysfunction, I like to start with labs they’re likely to already have on hand — a CBC and CMP — before moving on to more specialized testing. Here’s how I approach that process. Starting With the CMP From the comprehensive metabolic panel, I look at bicarbonate, albumin,…

  • Prenatal Iron

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    Karline Jensen
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    Arija et al. (2019), in a prospective cohort study in Spain, found that children born to mothers who had taken prenatal iron supplements (14-30 mg/day) scored better on tasks designed to evaluate working memory and executive functioning at age 7 than those whose mothers had not taken prenatal iron.  Nguyen et al. (2021), in a…