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Dread diseases come at us from two directions. First, we don’t arm our bodies for battle by supplying the support they need. Second, enemies break in and create chaos, keeping our undernourished bodies from their appointed tasks.

Well, no. Unless we take steps to know what we need to know, our first clue will almost surely be when we reach the disaster we’re headed for.

Instead, we should figure out what we need to know to, as they used to say in the old Western movies, “Cut ’em off at the pass!’�

So, first off, we need to know what our bodies are telling us. Sometimes even yelling at us. Oh, yeah, our bodies talk to us in a whole bunch of different ways.

And now that you know that, you need to pay attention. Well, that’s tricky business because most of us don’t understand the language.

Oh, if we get a fever, we know something’s up. Same with a big time rash or a digestive system that insists on dancing the fandango.

Figuring out why we’re struggling takes effort, perhaps even a lot of effort. But then, avoiding disaster would seem to be worth some effort, don’t you think?

But, and this is the second thing we need to know, while our bodies talk up a storm about what’s going on, our enemies don’t. They sneak around trying to work their woe without giving us a clue about what they’re up to.

Oh, they’ll eventually cough up some noticeable symptoms for us to ponder, but we really don’t want to go that far down the road before we get a warning.

I mean, we’re talking dread diseases'”heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and on, and on and on'”that don’t play fair.

A quick, relatively inexpensive way'”with good do-it-yourself possibilities'”to take a peek at what’s going on inside is the blood test.

Understanding Blood Tests talks about five got-to-have blood tests for everybody and four tests that are more situational. Are there more blood tests than these nine? Oh, indeed. About a bajillion and a half of them, but these are the ones you’re most likely to run into'”and the ones you really need to understand.

I write about each of the blood tests in its own chapter and explain what it’s for and how to understand the results. What’s normal. What a too-high result can mean. Or a too-low result, for that matter. Knowing where you stand leads to better health decisions.

A month before my first birthday, a drunk driver smashed in to my parent’s car as we drove to Grandma and Grandpa’s for Christmas. I suffered a concussion, which severely damaged my pituitary gland'”the king of the body’s universe'”and my endocrine system never walked in health again. For years, though, doctors insisted I was fine.

And why not? People with endocrine problems'”thyroid, adrenal, etc.'”don’t look sick. In fact, we look pretty darned healthy.

I couldn’t even get taken seriously when most of my hair fell out'”and what was left changed colors.

My reward for all this lack of attention was shingles, low blood sugar and a variety of ills that push you into a mess.

So I set out to fix my own health. It took years to figure things out, but I made it. Today I have energy, a scalp full of hair, a working brain, and plenty of enthusiasm. Life is good.

Now I share what I learned so you won’t have to reinvent the wheel and spend years and years digging through research for clues.

Helping people gives value to all my health struggles, so I keep on researching because I always want to do more. To date, I’m helping people reverse leaky gut syndrome, atrial fibrillation, neuropathy, autoimmune diseases, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine problems, stuttering, autism, and on, and on.

The five gotta-get-em tests are the Complete Blood Count, the Comprehensive Medical Panel, Vitamin D3, Homocysteine and C-reactive protein.

I know, I know, the names can make your eyes glaze over, but before you nod off, let me just mention the homocysteine test is the only sure clue you’re heading for a heart attack. The talk’s all about cholesterol, which is much ado about nothing because homocysteine actually calls the shots.

The C-reactive protein test talks about inflammation lurking in your body'”which tells you whether disease is setting up shop'”somewhere. Well, now, that’s a very good thing to know. Nip it in the bud and all that.

And we sure need to know what shape our blood’s in. From the moment we’re born to our last second on earth, our bodies move heaven and earth to protect our blood. The blood, after all, is where the life is.

Your blood will rob the rest of your body blind to get what it needs. So the Complete Blood Count (CBC) alerts us to how things are going, blood-wise.

Then there’s the “Comprehensive Metabolic Panel,’� a name that can bore you into a coma, but with results that can keep you from the swamp of despair. The CMP is about balance, balance, balance. And so are our bodies.

Since out-of-balance points the way to disaster and death, our bodies fight to keep everything in balance. The CMP brings you news from the war front.

Then’s there’s Vitamin D3. Most of us don’t get nearly as much we need. Since every single cell in our bodies'”including the brain'”need D3, if we want a working body and a working brain, we should track our D levels.

Almost everybody will run into most, if not all, of these tests. We need to know their strengths and weaknesses, where… Read more…