12/11/2025
Your bodying isn’t lying. Someone else is.
These responses to lab results and looking for answers about your body is the surface-level story we’ve been told for decades. Quick fixes, dismissive answers, and a reactive approach that prioritizes early detection not early prevention.
In functional medicine, your everyday symptoms are data.
- Stress isn’t “normal” it’s a hormonal disruptor and a root cause of inflammation, gut dysfunction, poor detox, and autoimmune flares.
- Sleep isn’t just hours, it’s deep repair that directly affects metabolism, immunity, mood, and detox pathways.
- Bloating is a sign, not a personality trait. They point to issues like dysbiosis, poor digestion, food intolerances, or early inflammation.
- Of course, managing portions and keeping your body moving are critical, but if there are underlying issues that aren’t addressed, your results will be disappointing.
- “Normal” labs aren’t the goal. Optimal ones are. Subclinical issues show up long before disease does.
- Mood swings, anxiety, low libido, or unexplained weight changes? Thank hormones. Functional medicine knows hormones do matter. because they’re often the root cause of your symptoms.
- Most primary care offices run only one test: TSH. Maybe T4 if you’re lucky. So maybe those results DID comeback normal. But a real thyroid eval checks TSH, Free T4, Free T3, Reverse T3, TPO antibodies, Thyroglobulin antibodies, and T3 uptake + s*x hormone binding proteins
Functional medicine doesn’t silence symptoms. It asks why they’re happening in the first place.