• 1Baseline Your Health (VIDEO)
  • 2Baseline Your Health
  • 3Your Biomarkers Small & Large
  • 4Your Doctor's Visit
  • 5Your Physical Biomarkers
  • 6A Healthy Conversation
  • 7Your Laboratory Exams, Your Lab Biomarkers
  • 8Complete Blood Count, and Baselining Your Health
  • 9River of Life: Blood Sustains & Protects
  • 10Lipids, Heart Health and Baselining Your Health
  • 11The Heart of the Matter: Dietary Fat & Vessel Health
  • 12All Charged Up: Electrolytes & Vitality
  • 13Detox & Digest: Your Busy Liver
  • 14Blood Glucose and Baselining Your Health
  • 15Food Into Fuel: The Multi-tasking Pancreas
  • 16Vitamin D and Baselining Your Health
  • 17Your Biggest Supporters: Healthy Bones
  • 18Your Kidneys: Not Just A Waste Disposal Team
  • 19Sexual Health, Preserving Reproduction
  • 20Setting the Pace: Thyroid & Metabolism
  • 21In Defense of You: Your Immune System
  • 22Monitoring Disease: What Cells Tell Us
  • 23Reading Your Mind: The Future of Brain Imaging
  • 24Mapping Your Future: Screening for Disease Risk
  • 25Baseline Trends
  • 26After Your Visit
CHAPTER 6

A Healthy Conversation

Health and wellness are based on conversations. That’s true in the literal sense of how essential it is to engage in thoughtful discussion with your doctor and other health care providers. The most fundamental conversation in many respects, however, is that between you and your biomarkers. Your body is engaged in constant conversation. Every cell and tissue of your body sends and receives microscopic messages at mindboggling speed. Billions of pieces of information are exchanged every second. It is a feedback system that dwarfs even the internet in its magnitude, sensitivity and subtlety. Every aspect of wellness and illness hang in the balance of this intimate biological conversation.