Pregnancy blood tests: Results you never expected & why functional ranges don’t work

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Pregnancy blood tests: Results you never expected & why functional ranges don’t work

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The results of blood work during pregnancy are often a bit shocking to even the savviest of clinicians trained in blood chemistry analysis. Why are tests so different in pregnancy and postpartum compared to other times of life? And how do we accurately assess pregnancy blood tests? Results often seem pathological when, in reality, they’re …

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Eating for bipolar disorder: Part 1 of 2

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What comes to mind when you think of eating for bipolar disorder?  Bipolar affective disorder, or manic-depressive disorder, is a psychological disease leading to sometimes extreme fluctuations of mood and energy. The United States leads the world in bipolar diagnoses at approximately 3% of the population (1, 2). “Hippocrates was the first to distinguish between …

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