Functional Blood Work Analysis · Elk River, MN
It is the most common thing we hear. And it usually means your blood work got compared to ranges built to catch disease, not to tell you whether your body is actually running well. We read it differently: over 60 markers, against functional ranges, so we can catch the problem while it is still easy to fix.
Standard lab ranges answer exactly one question: are you sick enough to treat? They were never built to tell you whether you feel good. So you can sit inside "normal" for years, feel terrible the whole time, and get told nothing is wrong.
Standard ranges are built from the average patient, and most of them are not thriving. A functional range is tighter. It is where people actually feel good, and it is where we read your results.
Same markers, same lab, same blood. You keep more than $530. And there is no surprise bill three weeks later, because the point is getting you answers, not making money on a blood draw. HSA and FSA both work here.
Over 60 markers in one draw: complete blood count, full metabolic and lipid panels, a complete thyroid picture, iron studies, vitamin D, inflammation markers, blood sugar and insulin, and an autoimmune screen. Not the four-marker checkup.
Every marker gets read against functional ranges and against each other. Patterns matter more than any single number. Then we sit down and walk you through all of it, so you see what is off, why it is off, and the plan.
Say three patients walk in exhausted, and all three have a TSH sitting inside the normal range. A panel that stops at TSH calls all three of them fine. They are not fine, and they do not have the same problem.
The thyroid itself is fine, but the signal coming from the pituitary is off. Nothing on a TSH-only panel explains why this person is dragging.
Antibodies are quietly attacking the gland. That is Hashimoto's, and it often shows up in antibodies years before TSH ever budges. You only find it if you run them. More on Hashimoto's →
Plenty of T4 gets made, but it never converts to the active T3 your cells need. Free T3 and reverse T3 tell that story. TSH will not. More on thyroid care →
Dr. Anderson recorded these walkthroughs on actual panels. No theory, no slides. Just the numbers, what they mean sitting next to each other, and the pattern that only shows up once you read the whole picture.
And here are those three thyroid patterns again, this time on real labs.
Sometimes a pattern points somewhere blood work alone cannot follow: the gut, hormones, mold, histamine. That is when we add a specialty test instead of guessing. Here is where we go deeper →
Ready to go? Start as a new patient and we will get your panel ordered. Want to talk it through first? Grab a free phone consult.
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Already had blood work done recently? Bring it with you. We are happy to look at what you already have, and it may save you a draw.
We set up your panel when you start as a new patient. Everything gets ordered before your first visit so we are not waiting around.
Any Labcorp location, or an at-home draw if you would rather not leave the house. Fast 8 hours, water only. Full draw instructions →
Results usually land in 2 to 3 days. Every marker gets scored against functional ranges and read as a pattern, not one line at a time.
We go through the whole thing with you. What is off, what is driving it, and exactly what we are doing about it. You leave with a plan, not a printout.
The questions we hear most from new patients in Elk River and the surrounding area.