Doug, The Formulator, and Ms. Natural Olympia Champ, Hilary Grant, share the importance of blood work. Do lab tests, get the nutrients your body needs, and keep track and make changes to your nutrient regimen to help you live longer healthier, and happier lives.

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The FitFam podcasts discuss research and methods for becoming and staying healthy the natural way through Focused Intense Thought, Nutrition, Exercise, and Specific Supplementation or FITNESS. Using these principles, you’ll learn to improve your health from the cellular level out.

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Episode Time Stamps 

• 00:00 Halloween and BLOOD

• 01:17 History of blood

• 01:42 “Draw the line in the sand”

• 02:10 95% of all disease is preventable or curable

• 02:49 Bridging alternative medicine and our career

• 04:35 Doug sharing a memory

• 05:16 NBA bloodwork story

• 07:25 Understanding your own blood

• 08:35 What is BLOOD 

• 10:19 Just a few Blood drop contains 250 million red blood cells and half a million white blood cells

• 11:06 Focus on the cell will lead people to Optimal Health

• 12:23 Quotes

• 13:40 How blood cells are created

• 14:20 A client's blood work

• 15:25 Importance of blood work done & Nutrient Rx

• 16:50 Clinical low and clinical high 

• 20:20 How to look at your bloodwork 

• 20:20 Get a copy of your bloodwork, you have the right 

• 20:36 Number one risk for heart disease

• 21:05 Bad Cholesterol vs Good Cholesterol on your bloodwork 

• 21:00 HDL, Ratio and cholesterol

• 23:20 LDL, more than heart disease

• 23:53 Hilary’s Blood work as an example

• 24:20 Type of heart disease to look for in your blood work

• 25:00 Sugar in the blood

• 25:35 Where should your total cholesterol be

• 26:00 How Hillary tackled her blood work

• 26:45 C-Reactive Protein

• 27:22 Leading cause of disease

• 27:45 Protein

• 29:15 Hilary talks about how our genetics play a role

• 29:56 TIP: shoulder blade pain can be referred pain from the gallbladder due to fat digestion

• 30:04 Back to Protein and Gout

• 31:55 Joy of working with people’s bloodwork and their nutrition 

• 32:40 Back to Protein and Gout

• 33:08 Thyroid 

• 34:00 How our organs, gland and thyroid run off of nutrients. For Thyroid, it’s iodine and iodide

• 34:50 Importance of bloodwork and markers

• 35:00 KEY TO ENERGY AND VITALITY IS estrogen and testosterone balance

• 35:40 hematocrit 

• 36:45 white blood cells

• 37:48 Detecting parasites through blood work with Nutrient Rx

• 40:35 Organ health (kidney and liver)

• 41:58 Simple things can improve your health!

• 42:24 Russel Brunson’s bloodwork story

• 43:15 The need to get blood work done

• 43:33 See your health improve outward AND INWARD 

• 45:20 RECAP

• 46:30 Doug’s “cool” medal, is it gaudy enough or not?

• 47:24 90% of nutrients, supplements

• 48:09 Blood work is the river of life