5 blood tests your GP won't order
Forty-two lines on your results. All green. And the energy still isn't there — your hair's thinning, the weight creeps up despite the diet. Normal is not the same as healthy.
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For each of the five tests: the optimal range (not just the lab “normal”) and what to do about it. You'll walk away with a ready list to run privately, no referral. 8 pages, about 6 minutes.
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There's nothing wrong with you — the lab range is simply too wide. You can google the names of these five tests in five minutes. What you can't google: the optimal range for each (not the lab “normal”, but the level where you actually feel the difference) and what to do about it. That's what's inside.
Sound familiar?
- ✓ Results all “normal”, yet the fatigue won't lift
- ✓ TSH “fine”, yet your hair keeps ending up on the brush
- ✓ Sugar's good, yet the weight won't budge despite the diet
- ✓ Your cycle's off, yet the tests look fine
- ✓ Your GP says you're OK, yet you feel you're not
Why everything's “normal”, yet you feel it isn't?
A lab range is the range most of the tested population falls into. The trouble is, that population today is, to put it gently, in mixed shape. “Normal” doesn't mean “healthy”. It just means you're like most people.
I work inside the British health system and know it from the inside out. I know what the seven-minute appointment looks like, where the easiest thing to hear is “your results are normal, take something for the pain and keep an eye on it” — not because anyone's a bad doctor, but because that's simply the default here. The standard panel was built to catch disease that's already there, not to answer why you feel worse and worse.
I look at it differently: not whether you fall within the range, but whether you're at your optimum. The body sends a signal long before the marker your GP looks at so much as moves. You just need to know where to look.
What's inside
Insulin, ferritin, thyroid antibodies, vitamin D and quiet inflammation — you can order those privately yourself. What you can't order: what those numbers actually mean for you. That's what the guide is for.
Where the lab “normal” ends and the range you can actually feel begins. Those are two different numbers — and for each test you get both.
Why “everything's normal” can mean “a decade before the problem”. What the body signals long before the marker your GP looks at so much as moves.
Where to start, exactly — test by test. Not generalities, but the next steps you can take yourself.
What to take to a private lab so you neither overpay nor guess. A ready list you walk in with, no referral needed.
Who's behind this
Konrad Kowalik, functional naturopathy consultant
For years I've helped people make sense of results that come back “normal” while something is still off. I work inside the British health system — I know what the seven-minute appointment looks like and what you won't hear in it. Clients across five countries, consultations in English and Polish. This guide is a shortcut to where I most often begin.
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Open the “Normal vs Optimal” toolThis material is educational and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis or a recommendation of treatment. Konrad Kowalik is a functional naturopathy consultant, not a doctor. Make health decisions consciously and, where needed, discuss them with your doctor.