https://holisticthyroidcare.net/your-annual-physical-5-critical-tests-you-must-request/ Shannon Garrett, BS, RN, CNN Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://holisticthyroidcare.net/your-annual-physical-5-critical-tests-you-must-request/#comment-429 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:02:46 +0000 https://holisticthyroidcare.net/?p=11045#comment-429 Those five should be standard with every annual physical. And while that list could be expended, nevertheless, I must take issue with the omission of RBC Mg. Even if you don’t consider it the most important, it is definitely important enough to be included. And while I agree with a full thyroid panel, many doctors don’t include reverse T3 and autoantibody tests with their scrip. It also should be mentioned that about half of those with a thyroid issue will have normal tests.
Everyone likes to skirt around the real medical issues. While there are many superb MDs, the vast majority of MDs are grossly incompetent. And that includes every MD that isn’t ordering those additional tests unless requested by their patients. It also includes those doctors which carelessly permit iron supplements or sweets to patients with an infection or cancer. Plus those prescribing meds for hypertension, diabetic and multiple other issues which are usually the result of a magnesium deficiency, but they didn’t bother checking the patient’s RBC magnesium. And the list goes on, which shows the surreal ineptitude of what we have today for a typical MD.

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