Do Autoimmune Diseases Show Up In Blood Tests

Do autoimmune diseases show up in blood tests and if they do, is it accurate? What does it mean if all of your labs are within the lab ranges but you still have symptoms? Is there another way to look at things?

Today we are getting into the labs your doctor may or may not be running and how they can give you clues as to what the root causes is for your autoimmune disease. We will also be touching on if these fancy labs that you can have done are a distraction or a necessary step.

Now if you're thinking oh, this doesn't apply to me because I don't even think I have an autoimmune disease, stay tuned these lab results, this information is important for everyone for you to look at when you have an annual physical, or when you have any other lab work done.

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Do Autoimmune Diseases Show Up In Blood Tests

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Do Autoimmune Diseases Show Up in Blood Tests

Do autoimmune diseases show up in blood tests and if they do, is it accurate? What does it mean if all of your labs are within the lab ranges but you still have symptoms? Is there another way to look at things?

Today we are getting into the labs your doctor may or may not be running and how they can give you clues as to what the root causes is for your autoimmune disease. We will also be touching on if these fancy labs that you can have done are a distraction or a necessary step.

Now if you're thinking oh, this doesn't apply to me because I don't even think I have an autoimmune disease, stay tuned these lab results, this information is important for everyone for you to look at when you have an annual physical, or when you have any other lab work done.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening  - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women start their very own Autoimmune Revolution so you can stop chasing symptoms and learn how to heal your body from autoimmune disease.

There's a lot of room in a normal blood test result...

In conventional medicine, labs are looked at as inside or outside of the reference range. You are either higher or lower and if you're within the normal range - nothing is wrong. And as you may have experienced for yourself, there is a lot of sickness and symptoms inside those reference ranges. In fact, if you are well outside those ranges - that is only about 2.5% of the population on most lab tests. If you compare that to the growing number of autoimmune disease cases - you can see just how much sickness can live within a normal lab result.

What do your autoimmune blood tests reveal?

Let me share a story with you...

I get lots of stories in my practice, here’s one that stood out as needing to share with you today:

Kim shared, “My primary care doc believes I have an autoimmune disease, but I'm still 4 months away from the first available appointment with a specialist. Since I can't see my doc until then and I'm going bananas trying to figure out what's going on.

How to Test for Autoimmune Disease

How to test for autoimmune disease is really a multiple part process - and the results may leave you wondering if you have one at all.  Maybe even wondering why you waited so long. Most people take an average of 5 years to get to a diagnosis and then begin treatment. 5 years. Do you know what could have been un-done in those years? How far could you have come on your healing path while you were waiting for this label? 

Today we are covering exactly how to test yourself for autoimmune disease and other chronic illnesses without diagnosing yourself or even performing anything more than a few at-home tests. I have also included a quiz to help you on this path. Over the next 2 weeks, we will be talking about interpreting some common labs and why labs may not even be needed and some of my favorite trackers to assess where you are in your healing journey.

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How to Test for Autoimmune Disease

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Testing for Autoimmune Disease...

How to test for autoimmune disease is really a multiple part process - and the results may leave you wondering if you have one at all. Maybe even wondering why you waited so long. Most people take an average of 5 years to get to a diagnosis and then begin treatment. 5 years. Do you know what could have been un-done in those years? How far could you have come on your healing path while you were waiting for this label?

Today we are covering exactly how to test yourself for autoimmune disease and other chronic illnesses without diagnosing yourself or even performing anything more than a few at home tests. I have also included a quiz to help you on this path. Over the next 2 weeks, we will be talking about interpreting some common labs and why labs may not even be needed and some of my favorite trackers to assess where you are in your healing journey.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening  - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women start your very own Autoimmune Revolution so you can stop chasing symptoms and learn how to heal your body from autoimmune disease.

Does autoimmune diagnosis matter?

As I mentioned most people who are suffering from a symptom or collection of symptoms that just won’t go away, spend an average of 5 years to get to a diagnosis. Five whole years. Five years of suffering and stressing and making whatever was there label-less WORSE. Even when you get the label what does that change?

It changes nothing. You still have the same option of conventional medicine to mask the symptoms or starting your own revolution in your health and wellness to heal your body.

What could you have healed while you were stuck waiting?

Let me share a story with you...

I get lots of stories in my practice, or maybe they could be considered complaints? Or even cries for help? A few stand out here:

Holly, came to me because she had some lab results that she didn’t understand and she had already been diagnosed with Hashimoto's - but she is ...

Yoga for Autoimmune Disease

Yoga for autoimmune disease - Man, they have yoga for everything! LOL Don't tune out yet...Have you ever heard of yoga as a treatment for autoimmune disease? I know, depending on how you heard of the mind-body connection you may have heard of it as elusive, and depending on your experience with yoga - that may seem elusive too, maybe even impossible to use yoga for autoimmune disease.

Interestingly, once you get this mind-body connection piece down whether it is through yoga, meditation, or one of the other methods I recommend - it translates to lasting healing because it almost seems superhuman sometimes.

We are continuing our theme of regaining that mind-body connection and today we are talking about using yoga to heal autoimmune disease.

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Yoga for Autoimmune Disease

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Yoga for autoimmune disease...

Yoga for autoimmune disease - Man, they have yoga for everything! LOL Don't tune out yet...Have you ever heard of yoga as a treatment for autoimmune disease? I know, depending on how you heard of the mind-body connection you may have heard of it as elusive, and depending on your experience with yoga - that may seem elusive too, maybe even impossible to use yoga for autoimmune disease.

Interestingly, once you get this mind-body connection piece down whether it is through yoga, meditation, or one of the other methods I recommend - it translates to lasting healing because it almost seems superhuman sometimes.

We are continuing our theme of regaining that mind-body connection and today we are talking about using yoga to heal autoimmune disease.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening  - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women start your very own Autoimmune Revolution so you can stop chasing symptoms and learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

A quick announcement before we continue… we need to have a little word about pivoting… anyone else hear Ross from FRIENDS when you hear the word “pivot”? I know I do.

So at the beginning of Season 4, my Team and I brought the pod back as the Naturalistic Nurse Podcast - so cute and fun, right? You might remember the story, it started as a client calling me the wilderness nurse? But is it a practical description of what I do - Nah. It’s really not.

It’s so important in all things to realize when your needs change, like when the science points to new avenues for healing our bodies, or when our bodies tell us that something needs to change - so in honoring the needs of the audience, my specialty in autoimmune conditions which oddly I was afraid to specialize the podcast, but its time. We have brand partners and new goodies coming up that we need to shift or pivot again - starting this very next episode - this will be the Autoimmune Revolution Podcast.

You will still have all your fav info - just a new - easier to find - more relevant title. As always - thank you for all of your support and love as we continue this journey together.

How to Meditate to Heal Autoimmune Disease

How do you feel about mediation? Have you googled “how to meditate” only to discover that you can’t find a style that works? Or you don’t understand the benefits of meditation? Or maybe you just don’t find that how to meditate explains it enough for you?

Last week I talked about the importance of mind-body connection and how many times, women who develop or are suffering from an autoimmune condition have lost that mind-body connection. In that episode, I gave you all of the info about why that is important. Today, I want to talk to you about an example of one way you can achieve and maintain this connection.

Sometimes I hear that you have tried meditation - and it's not that you don’t understand the proof it works, you just don’t understand how to meditate.

Don’t run away if you have already tried it or if you didn’t like it or if you even feel like it didn’t work - I promise you can do this.

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How to Meditate to Heal Autoimmune Disease

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How do you feel about meditation...

How do you feel about mediation? Have you googled “how to meditate” only to discover that you can’t find a style that works? Or you don’t understand the benefits of meditation? Or maybe you just don’t find that how to meditate explains it enough for you?

Last week I talked about the importance of mind-body connection and how many times, women who develop or are suffering from an autoimmune condition have lost that mind-body connection. In that episode, I gave you all of the info about why that is important. Today, I want to talk to you about an example of one way you can achieve and maintain this connection.

Sometimes I hear that you have tried meditation - and it's not that you don’t understand the proof it works, you just don’t understand how to meditate.

Don’t run away if you have already tried it or if you didn’t like it or if you even feel like it didn’t work - I promise you can do this.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening  - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women start their very own Autoimmune Revolution so they can stop chasing symptoms and learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

If your mind-body connection is broken...

As I mentioned in the last episode about Mind-Body Connection, if you are disconnected from your body, if you aren’t in touch with your body, if your mind-body connection is missing or broken, then it makes it more difficult to heal your body from an autoimmune disease or even effectively mask the symptoms with conventional or natural medicine.

I want to make sure you understand that bit there because it is so important, a mind-body connection is essential for healing, no matter your path, this will be a recurrent theme today too.

Let me share a story with you...

I want to share a story with you - because I promise if there is an excuse for not meditating I have heard it.

Let me set the stage, busy mom of 4 kids under 10.

Mind Body Connection - Required for Healing

Do you have a mind-body connection? Do you feel connected to your body? Obviously you are connected to your body right, but what I mean is do you know the messages your body is trying to send? Understanding intimately what is happening in your human suits starts with your mind-body connection.

Often women who develop or are suffering from an autoimmune condition have lost that mind-body connection. So today, we are going to talk about what is this mind-body connection I am speaking of, and how it benefits you and your healing journey.

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Mind Body Connection: Required for Healing

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Are you disconnected...

Do you feel connected to your body? Obviously you are connected to your body right, but what I mean is do you know the messages your body is trying to send? Understanding intimately what is happening in your human suits starts with your mind-body connection.

Often women who develop or are suffering from an autoimmune condition have lost that mind-body connection. So today, we are going to talk about what is this mind-body connection I am speaking of, and how it benefits you and your healing journey.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening  - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women start their very own Autoimmune Revolution so they can stop chasing symptoms and learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

If your mind-body connection is broken...

If you are disconnected from your body, if you aren’t in touch with your body, if your mind-body connection is missing or broken, then it makes it more difficult to heal your body from an autoimmune disease or even effectively mask the symptoms with conventional or natural medicine.

I want to make sure you understand that bit there because it is so important, a mind-body connection is essential for healing, no matter your path.

Let me share a story with you...

and I have 100s of stories just like this one. One of my clients came to me taking a very popular supplement and experienced some weird side effects. She said, “Audrey, I think something is wrong with me - this is GOOD stuff - it does X, Y, Z and helps with this and that, it's not working for me, its making things worse, new problems are showing up, it must be me, I messed this up too.”

This WAS a good supplement, although it wasn't recommended by any provider, she had been listening to the marketing of the company. But the problem wasn't that she was so broken nothing could fix it.

Do you want to know what the only problem was here friends?

She wasn’t connected, she wasn’t receiving messages from her body. A better way to put it is that she was receiving the messages but instead of practicing the honoring of those messages she had practiced ignoring them. She was overstimulated, underslept, not filling her own cup first, doing everything she could to avoid stopping to see what was wrong.

Hydrating Foods: Foods to Eat to Help with Hydration

We all have the best intentions with our water intake. You may be great at getting your water in each day, or you may need a little help remembering to stay hydrated. Either way, it's a daily task to remember to stay hydrated and avoid the repercussions of dehydration. This is particularly important during the summer months for all people but especially for those with autoimmune conditions.

One way to offset any lack of adequate water you may be getting is to make sure the foods you eat are hydrating. This doesn't mean to skip that glass of water, but these delicious hydrating foods can be added to your plate daily to give you a hydration boost.

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How to stop drinking soda?

A soda habit is hard to kick, but don’t worry, I’m going to show you exactly how to stop drinking soda in this episode. I know it might be a daunting task - it is a hard habit to kick. If you drink soda, it’s probably been part of your life for a long time. This includes diet soda friends! So sorry!

Any habit can be hard to kick but soda can be particularly tricky because it is so addictive. Are you ready to kick soda and diet soda to the curb?

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How to Stop Drinking Soda?

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Soda is a hard habit to kick...

A soda habit is hard to kick, but don’t worry, I’m going to show you exactly how to stop drinking soda in this episode. I know it might be a daunting task - it is a hard habit to kick. If you drink soda, it’s probably been part of your life for a long time. 

Any habit can be hard to kick but soda can be particularly tricky because it is so addictive. This episode was almost too hard to stretch out to make into an actual episode -because the steps to stop drinking soda are so stinkin' simple.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women stop chasing symptoms and find relief and ultimately learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

Quitting Soda is important for your health...

Bottom line - soda or diet soda is super hard to kick, the same goes for energy drinks. So if you have been wondering how to stop drinking soda and all its toxic ingredients, I want to assure you there's a slow way to do it. If you're worried about caffeine withdrawal headaches, missing it too much, or just feeling nervous about a significant shift in your life -- let's work on it slowly. Baby steps often get us to our destination in a far more lasting way than trying it cold turkey.

Leaving behind soda improves literally every aspect of your health. It’s one of the first steps to healing your body on so many levels, including mental health.

Specifically, you will:

Reduce or eliminate anxiety

Improve the health fo your teeth

Strengthen your bones

Improve your immune system

Reduce sugar cravings

Increase your energy

A Quick Story for you from a client...

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She had given up everything, was eating essentially a paleo, grain-free, diet, heavy on veggies, heavy on meat no grains no dairy no nightshades (those were the devil). Her symptoms kept leaving and coming back… why is that? Because her root causes had not been addressed. She kept getting accused of not eating clean...enough.

What are nightshades?

Are nightshades good for you?

What are nightshades? Have you ever heard of them? Most often people with autoimmune hear of nightshades as something to avoid.

Nightshades are simply a group of fruits and vegetables in the family of plants known as solanum. Plenty of rumors abound as to whether these shady garden growers are good or bad for you, but I'm here to give you the basic insight on what they are.

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What are nightshades? Are nightshades good for you?

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Are nightshades good for you? What are they?

What are nightshades? Have you ever heard of them? Most often people with autoimmune hear of nightshades as something to avoid.

Nightshades are simply a group of fruits and vegetables in the family of plants known as solanum. Plenty of rumors abound as to whether these shady garden growers are good or bad for you, but I'm here to give you the basic insight on what they are.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women stop chasing symptoms and find relief and ultimately learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

Nightshades have achieved full villain status in the autoimmune community.

In recent years, nightshades have gained a full villain status in the autoimmune community. And not without reason, just maybe not a good one.

There are some very famous nutrition-focused physicians that have heavily marketed - if you have symptoms, inflammation, autoimmune disease then you should stay away from them completely. I get it, they seem like they are on our side, touting the benefits of nutrition changing your life and healing your body - which is true - but the catch for them is that you have to give up all of these food categories. That part is not true, well not exactly.

Other popular fad diets have villainized them over and over again as inflammatory, not prehistoric enough, poison even.

Most of the time, I hear of people giving up nightshades and getting temporary relief and then symptoms returning without adding nightshades back in.

So nightshades as autoimmune villains? I’m here to change that friends.

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She had given up everything, was eating essentially a paleo, grain-free, diet, heavy on veggies, heavy on meat no grains no dairy no nightshades (those were the devil). Her symptoms kept leaving and coming back… why is that? Because her root causes had not been addressed. She kept getting accused of not eating clean...enough.

So instead of removing another food group… we did some food allergy testing to see exactly what was coming up for her - low and behold - all of her sensitivity was to - plants.

Foods good for skin and hair

Many autoimmune sufferers have skin and hair issues - sometimes directly related to their disease like with psoriasis and sometimes indirectly like with thyroid issues. Good news, what you eat makes a big difference. There are very specific foods that are good for your skin and hair.

Eating food that is good for your skin and hair is simple - you just need to take in robust nutrients to power oxygen, minerals, and healthy cell turnover.

It’s never too late to start being extra mindful of your skin and hair. Today we are diving into the foods to aim to eat daily to ensure beautiful skin and hair - it starts from the inside out.

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Foods Good for Skin and Hair

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Foods good for skin and hair

Many autoimmune sufferers have skin and hair issues - sometimes directly related to their disease like with psoriasis and sometimes indirectly like with thyroid issues. Good news, what you eat makes a big difference. There are very specific foods that are good for your skin and hair.

Eating food that is good for your skin and hair is simple - you just need to take in robust nutrients to power oxygen, minerals, and healthy cell turnover.

It’s never too late to start being extra mindful of your skin and hair. Today we are diving into the foods good for skin and hair and how to aim to eat them daily to ensure beautiful skin and hair - it starts from the inside out.

Intro

Welcome if this is your first time listening - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women stop chasing symptoms and find relief and ultimately learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

Good Skin and Hair happen in the Kitchen

Eat colorful fruits and vegetables every day

Pick up more fresh produce with an array of colors. These items have potent antioxidants that keep free radicals from causing cellular damage. It would be best if you strived to have five portions of produce daily, aiming to be as colorful as you possibly can.

Make Vitamin C a priority

Not only is vitamin C extra crucial for immunity, but it's also great for the skin. You can use the topical version on the outside, but inside, get as much as you can so you produce more collagen for bouncy, youthful skin. Think blueberries, oranges, broccoli, and sweet potatoes.

Savor selenium-rich foods

Another antioxidant that does skin right is selenium. It assists vitamins C and E to help support your immunity and keep skin from suffering sun damage. You can get selenium by eating a single Brazil nut every day. You will also find it in broccoli and tomatoes.

Don't forget vitamin E-rich foods

It's helpful to think of vitamin E as vitamin C's best frie...

Food that Helps with Anxiety (and some energy medicine tricks too)

Did you know that food can help with anxiety? It’s not a replacement for a broad treatment for clinical anxiety BUT it can help with daily anxiety and is part of a holistic approach to defeating anxiety for good.

It’s funny, we often put a lot of thought into proactively doing things to improve the way we look, what outfits we are going to wear,  and maybe even our immune systems. But anxiety is something that can be combated with proactive habits just as well as anything else we are working on.

Maybe this episode should be called why you should be proactive instead of “Foods that help with anxiety”? 

Today we are going to dive into some nutrients that you can seek out proactively in your diet and other foods that help with anxiety.

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Essential Oils

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Foods that Help with Anxiety

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Are you proactive with your anxiety?

Did you know that food can help with anxiety? It’s not a replacement for a broad treatment for clinical anxiety BUT it can help with daily anxiety and is part of a holistic approach to defeating anxiety for good.

It’s funny, we often put a lot of thought into doing things to improve the way we look and maybe even our immune systems. But anxiety is something that can be combated with proactive habits just as well as anything else we are working on.

Maybe this episode should be called why you should be proactive instead of “Foods that help with anxiety”?

Today we are going to dive into some nutrients that you can seek out proactively in your diet and other foods that help with anxiety.

Welcome if this is your first time listening - I’m Audrey Christie - I’m a functional and integrative nurse nutritionist and energy medicine practitioner. I help women stop chasing symptoms and find relief and ultimately learn how to heal their bodies from autoimmune disease.

We often put a lot of thought into doing things regularly to boost our immune systems, what we wear, how we workout, etc. We know the necessary items that need to be present in our diet and lives to achieve these things, and we boost them even more during specific times of the year.

There's another issue we all deal with that can be combated with proactive habits -- overwhelm all the way up to anxiety.

When Energy Medicine and Conventional Medicine Merge

For the overwhelm and anxiety that comes with daily life, I like to look deep into where the energy medicine and traditional medicine merge.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, our kidneys are the body's central source of yin and yang. When our kidneys aren't functioning optimally, other health problems, including anxiety, arise.

The world we live in today takes a significant toll on our kidneys, whether we know it or not. These issues can be small enough to go undiagnosed by physicians but can have a substantial impact on the rest of our bodies.

Factors such as stress, poor sleep quality, environmental toxins, and alcohol can be extremely taxing on the kidneys and the power packs that sit on t...