Eating healthy is one of the most powerful actions you can take to upgrade your overall health and quality of life, boosting your mood, your energy, and improving how well you age.

But what if you aren't fully absorbing all the nutrients that you are so diligently consuming with all your carefully chosen healthy foods?

Today we’re going to talk about 5 easy ways to boost your absorption of nutrients to help you optimize your health.

https://dremilyfranklin.com/5-ways-boost-nutrition/ 

Chronic inflammation is one of the main problems behind most health issues – it causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and slows healing. It gets in the way of proper circulation, which leads to our cells, tissues and organs not getting all the nutrients that they need in order to function optimally, hinders their ability to clear waste products properly. And all this leads to and exacerbates disease.

One of the quickest and most effective ways to begin to reduce the inflammatory nature of your diet, reduce systemic inflammation, and improve your overall health, is by improving the Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio of your food intake.

And that’s what we’re going to talk about today!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/optimize-your-omega-6-omega-3-ratio-for-better-health/ 

In this final post in my series on bloodwork – on the basic and advanced markers to test and what you can learn from your bloodwork - we're going to look at another of my favorite bloodwork analysis tools, Bloodsmart.

Like the Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis (FBCA) that I talked about last week, Bloodsmart gives us a lot of really valuable information from a fairly basic and inexpensive set of bloodwork.

With the Bloodsmart analysis, we can forecast infections and inflammation, xenobiotic and heavy metal toxicity, hormone imbalances, and metabolic health - all without directly testing these. So we can learn a lot - while saving time and money - to guide decision making about treatment priorities and methods.

And that’s what we’re going to talk about today!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/get-smart-with-bloodsmart/ 

When you have bloodwork done and you get your results back, what do your results tell you about the true state of your health? Usually, not much, right?

But your bloodwork - even a basic set of bloodwork markers - actually has a LOT to tell us about the state of your health, especially when we use bloodwork analysis software like the Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis. 

And that’s what we’re going to talk about today!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/understanding-your-bloodwork/ 

Regular blood testing is one of the most important steps you can take to help prevent and reverse diseases of all sorts! With certain blood test results in hand, you can catch critical changes in your body long before they manifest as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and much more, and be inspired to turn things around. Having the proper blood tests can empower you to make changes that could add decades of healthspan to your life.

In my last episode, Essential Blood Tests to Get Regularly, I went over all the basic bloodwork you should do at least annually, and preferably more often than that.

Today, we'll look at several more advanced blood test markers that you can check occasionally, or when indicated by the bloodwork analysis report(s) you can get from me – to do a deeper dive into what’s going on in your body and discover more in-depth details about what needs attention and why. That way, you’ll have an even better idea of what you need to do to achieve and maintain optimal health!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/advanced-bloodmarkers-to-test/ 

Hi peeps! Oh boy, do we have a big fat juicy podcast today!

So first, I want to ask you - do you want to improve your health, naturally? Of course you do! Right?

Well, to do that effectively and efficiently, you need a good understanding of what’s going on inside your body.

And we can use a set of simple, common, and relatively inexpensive blood tests to determine your specific needs, deficiencies, challenges and imbalances, in order to guide you as you work on improving your health.

Which blood tests are essential for you to do regularly, to assess your health and then track your changes as you work on making improvements? That’s what we’re going to talk about today!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/essential-blood-tests-to-get-regularly/ 

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on early indicators of Insulin Resistance, which is typically a precursor to and indicator of the likelihood of developing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

In Part 1, which was podcast episode 29, we reviewed the many physical, mental and emotional signs and symptoms for you to be on the lookout for, that can indicate that you are on a diabetes trajectory.

In Part 2, podcast episode 30, I talked about several common blood test markers that you can track to keep an eye on your insulin resistance and blood sugar regulation status.

Now, in Part 3, I’m going to share with you 3 DIY calculators that you can plug your own numbers into, to get an even better idea of where you are on the Insulin Resistance path.

https://dremilyfranklin.com/insulin-resistance-diy-calculators/ 

Do you like to have concrete ways to measure and track your health status and progress?

Would you like to be able to measure and track one of the most important health markers there is, using basic bloodwork?

Then stay tuned!

Last week, we talked about early warning signs – the many physical, mental and emotional symptoms – to watch out for, that indicate that you are likely heading towards insulin resistance (and thus prediabetes and type 2 diabetes). 

Today, we’re going to look at several blood markers that can also give you that early warning – in a concrete, measurable way – so you know you need to work on reversing it!

https://dremilyfranklin.com/early-signs-ir-diabetes-blood-markers-to-watch/ 

Are you the type of person who likes to be proactive about your health?

Are you pretty healthy and want to keep it that way?

Then this episode is perfect for you!

Last time, in What IS Diabetes?, we talked about diabetes risk factors, and how to test yourself to see if you already have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes (50% of U.S. adults do), so you can know if these conditions have already begun to develop in you (and you can start working on reversing them!)

Today, we’re going to look at even earlier warning signs that you can be on the lookout for, so if you don’t yet have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, you can keep it that way! We’ll talk about the many physical, mental and emotional symptoms that signal that you’re starting to have blood-sugar-regulation troubles and insulin resistance, and are heading towards prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

https://dremilyfranklin.com/early-symptoms-insulin-resistance-diabetes/ 

Have you - or someone you care about - been diagnosed with Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes, and you want to learn more about these conditions?

Or, do you have Diabetes in your family (or have other risk factors) and are concerned about getting it yourself?

In that case, you might be curious to know:

• What are the risk factors to watch out for, that make you more likely to develop Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes?
• And what is happening in your body when Type 2 Diabetes or Prediabetes develops?

That’s what we’re going to talk about today!