Biometric Testing and Lab Work

Interesting. And have you taken the time to, I'm sure you would have, but I'll ask it anyway. So someone comes in, like that 7,000-calorie scenario, tests the stool, see all the stuff in the stool, change things up, test the stool again, and see, like you said, a prettier-looking stool. Have you actually gone to that length with some individuals? Not really anymore because I'm now of the opinion that you shouldn't run tests unless you absolutely need to. I mean, it's just extra money. I know people in Australia that run $5,000 worth of fucking tests when you could probably just sit down and interview them for 90 minutes and figure all their shit out. For sure. And if you can't figure it out within the first three or four months, then it's probably out of your pay grade anyways, and you should probably refer out. And so now we have other people run tests. The tests that I'll typically run if I need to, I'll run a biochemistry panel, so I'll run bloods, and I'll run organic acids tests. And that pretty much gives me everything I need to know, especially with nutrient deficiencies. And organic acids, you want to just elaborate? I think most of our listeners will be familiar with blood work, but organic acids is urine or? It's basically looking at metabolites of metabolism. So it's a urinary test. So there's some things you have to do, like not eating certain foods for a few days. You pee in a cup and then you send it off. And basically it's measuring what's high and low as far as metabolism, pyruvate, lactate, what's happening in the electron transport chain and the mitochondria. And you can see a lot of things on there whereas man this guy might have a thiamine deficiency so maybe we give him some B1 Boom it an easy fix but I rarely even do that anymore unless people will come to me with a lot of labs and I just kind of look at their labs and give it a look over and say okay, you know, this stuff is pretty easy to fix. Here you go. Here's a broad-spectrum multivitamin, multimineral, and we're going to do a little bit more aerobic, and we're going to cut down on the HIIT training. You know, the majority of the people that come to us are so out of balance with how their bioenergetics is flowing is that they get winded walking up a flight of stairs and their legs are on fire walking up a flight of stairs, which to me is ridiculous. So a lot of the testing we do now is, is there testing I can do or that the client can do at home that's repeatable daily and weekly without having to go to a lab and spend a lot of money? So we utilize waking heart rate, waking HRV, blood pressure, and we look at things like, if they can, the fasting lactate that we were talking about off air earlier. Yeah, absolutely fascinating. I also run the, and through spending time with Broderick, he has his list of things that he will get periodically, like weekly certain measures, every month certain measures, every three months, et cetera, et cetera. And I do run the four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, they send the BP, the report that they submit at the end of the week, and heart rate. And one that Ty Phillips, I think you would know Ty. You obviously know Ty and a lot of our listeners know Ty. Awesome kid. highly stressed environment sort of was moving out of a somewhat of a toxic household where he's at blood pressure was up around 150 on 90 borderline hypertension and so I'm like okay we've got to get this looked at and and he manages his he's pretty savvy he's not like an idiot he's well versed in the functional medicine side of things and and he was having various meditation practices and obviously all the supplementation, so the digestive enzymes and everything else. So imagine all that was being done. But all he changed was his living environment. And he is a bit of a stress head. I mean, I will say that on air, and he'll probably agree. But anyway, changed that. So I was looking at sending him to the GP to actually medicate while he was doing this prep. Listener Pearl, I think, not telling our listeners. I mean, it's obviously through a doctor anyway. It wasn't like I was saying, just treat yourself, go in, check the blood pressure if it's high, suggest this, because it has, I think, the least amount of concerns from a training perspective, but bring BP down while he's doing this particular prep. And long story short, moved, settled into a new environment, blood pressure came down. Yeah. So it went from what? Like, that was just stress, dude. So looking at it, I mean, I wouldn't have known. And then also, coincidentally, body comp, body fat's falling off him now. Like, as soon as the stress came down, and I could only gauge that by fundamentally his blood pressure and heart rate, and they both came down, and lo and behold, the body calm started improving, and productivity went up, his training numbers came up in the gym, and everyone lives happily ever after. So, yeah, stress is amazing because it's invisible. I mean, how do we know you're stressed? The thing is your brain will keep you from feeling stressed. If you have long-term chronic stress, the brain is going to do everything it can to save itself. So more often than not, when I have somebody come in and we do the first interview, they're like, hey, how's your stress? I don't feel stressed. And then an hour later, they're crying and dry heaving and they're talking about how they hate everything in their life. And I'm like, I thought you weren't stressed. All right, cool. Let's work on that first. And even what you said the other week there, like you more than – I mean you know Tom's known for his ability to manage lifestyle. and you do consults to address others' lifestyles and set up their lifestyle and they always... But you found yourself that even what you were doing wasn't enough. I spent a few days up on the coast and just totally unwound and it was the trip back to Sydney, I could literally feel the physiology changing. I was like, the memory or the association with just my life in Sydney is triggering a physiological response, which I've just grown accustomed to and lived with. I think what you're saying, Luke, is the body adapts to the stresses that you place on it. I mean, we started with energy balance, but this is perfect to segue into lifestyle management and stress management. And I know the muscle nerds is famous for least mode. I mean, that's been thrown around out there. So Tommy and I were curious as to finding out what this is all about. And a couple of questions that I'll throw to you is, from a training perspective, how do we know if they're doing too much? How do you quantify that? And also, are we supposed to be sympathetic, parasympathetic, and never any between? Or do you find that we sort of fluctuate throughout the day and that's healthy? It's when we spend too much in a sympathetic state and we're running on adrenaline and we never go into parasympathetic that it becomes problematic. Because if there's not a little bit of sympathetic, I don't get out of bed. You know what I mean? I'm just in, ah, there's no urgency. Eh, I'll aim for a little bit longer. But we've got Luke Lehman coming to the studio. and then I walking in efficiently So let explore that side of things