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How to Catch Health Imbalances Before They Cause Serious Problems
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Introduction to Health Imbalances
00:00:01
chrisyzen
Hey, it's Cristian, thanks for tuning in. So let's talk about how to catch imbalances before they become a problem for you, right? This is so key. Now, if you have someone with a health problem or or multiple health problems, it's clear they have imbalances. So what we what we do with clients is I've created my health assessment when a client joins the my health program. the The health assessment takes very little time for a client to do. It's like scoring things against symptoms like waking up in the middle of the night, trouble falling asleep, are you a nine, a 10? And then we have other stuff related to the gut, large intestine, small intestine, thyroid.
00:00:54
chrisyzen
you know, blood sugar balance, a bunch of different areas of the metabolism and body systems.
Importance of Health Assessments
00:01:00
chrisyzen
Okay. So some people know they have a health problem.
00:01:09
chrisyzen
And then there's other people that, especially with guys, this happens often. They have imbalances, but they for some reason won't admit it, right? Or they don't feel it. I genuinely believe some guys simply don't feel that the fact that they're out of balance. For them, it's normal. So, but this type of health assessment that we run at the beginning,
00:01:35
chrisyzen
catches a lot of these things because if you're, you you might say, i'm I'm fine, I'm great, everything's done. And then you score like an eight out of 10 for irritability or get hangry between meals or have cravings or binge eating or cravings for sweets or whatever. We can already see that there's an imbalance going on in terms of blood sugar regulation, right? And only when people see these kind of criteria, signs, symptoms, whatever,
00:02:04
chrisyzen
Only then do they start saying, oh, OK, well, this may be an issue for me. Or there's someone will say, bleeding gums. That's, oh, OK, I didn't realize that's considered an imbalance. that That means something. It means there's a deficiency in something potentially that has to be investigated. Usually it's easy to fix, but sometimes apparently not, as I recently found out. So that helps to catch a lot of things.
00:02:34
chrisyzen
in and of itself. This allows me to really zero in on where a person needs the most support, the the areas that we need to prioritize the most. However, sometimes it's much more rare. People don't score very high on a lot of things. Like someone that's relatively young and very healthy still.
00:02:58
chrisyzen
they can have imbalances or they can have suboptimal nutrition and other lifestyle stressors and whatever else that is going to at one point contribute to potentially issues developing. So with those folks, this is where the other side of the assessment helps with terms of what do they eat, stress, their bedtime routine, what do they do after they wake up, do they do intermittent fasting, a a ton of other kind of stuff.
The Role of Lab Testing
00:03:25
chrisyzen
Health history what medications there were they've been on or what diagnosis they've had what supplements do they take? So this is another way we can catch things In the making or that potentially can become an issue later on right if I so if I catch you doing one meal a day For example, I am going to have to spank you hard. Just kidding I'm going to I'm going to advise To not do that and I'll give you a better strategy so that you don't have to Run on cortisol for 20 22 hours out of the day, for example, right? So that's another way we catching balances that could or here's another one if if you if you're super healthy and everything is dandy, but you're still young and
00:04:14
chrisyzen
and very resilient but I see you reading donuts dunked in sunflower oil every day then that is an imbalance in the making it just hasn't manifested yet so I'm gonna advise you to not dunk your donuts in sunflower oil so again that's another layer of us catching imbalances and addressing them of course it's not just about catching things and knowing things intellectually it's about doing practical things that are usually very simple that's that's the goal so that you can easily implement it into your life however the the issue is that even the best practitioner the best assessment the most comprehensive assessment will not catch things that are invisible to the naked eye and what are these things so marginal
00:05:09
chrisyzen
vitamin or mineral deficiencies. Those are not visible to the naked eye. East fungal overgrowth. To increase toxicity. Acute toxic exposure to toxic metals or or chemicals.
00:05:28
chrisyzen
Neuroinflammation, that's another one that may not be visible or and or the person may not feel it, right? So we have a self-scoring and then mild observation. So we have these layers to catch it. But then when we exhaust those, we need to look further because I think it's ah ah it's a it's a sin to not utilize lab testing when for a few hundred dollars you can get a kit shipped to your door, pee in a cup, freeze it, guy comes and picks it up.
00:05:58
chrisyzen
and we get a ton of data again that we cannot catch with the naked and eye that that usually is contributing to imbalances deeper in the body that may take years or decades to manifest but the trick is to not do it allopathically right because the way they do it conventional medicine you wait until you're sick something is wrong with you you know like yeah whatever Let's use the the headache example. You wait until you have a headache and then you go and then you get your symptom suppression chemical. So that is horrific of a way to to really address health issues. And it gets even worse when these are more serious things like you know the big C, heart disease, whatever else.
00:06:52
chrisyzen
So the way to do it right, if you truly want to resolve health issues and then remain healthy and in a state of optimal health and you know increase your longevity as much as possible, you want to catch the glaring imbalances, right?
Specific Lab Tests and Their Benefits
00:07:09
chrisyzen
So anything like, okay, if you, if you have an itchy, but if you tell me on the health assessment that your itchy anus is a three out of three, let's say for that, then it's very indicative that you have a parasite situation going on, or you just need to learn to wipe better.
00:07:30
chrisyzen
But usually it's the parasite situation. So those are glaring things that we can again catch with the the assessment, the self, the self sort of scoring on symptoms and signs. And then with my observation and and kind of deduction and experience of what people generally, what mistakes people make in terms of this health stuff. But then we have the opportunity to catch stuff going on that If left un checkck unchecked in the months, years or decades down the line will cause problems. Here's one one example. So we use lately I've been using the Metabolomics Plus test. This has become kind of a staple with my the couple of tests I run at the beginning when a client enrolls in my program. So I definitely try to keep lab testing as
00:08:26
chrisyzen
economical for the client as possible and the beauty of the metabolomics plus test that i use is it does organic acids in terms of testing organic acids in the urine there's a a couple of add-ons they were super cheap for the fatty acids so we can see omega-3s omega-6s we can see toxic metals again in the urine and we can see nutrient elements as well and the organic acids another uh
00:08:56
chrisyzen
metabolites in the urine. these These give us insight into amino acids, B vitamin deficiencies, and there are certain ah ah there's certain compound compounds that are in certain
00:09:11
chrisyzen
nutrient pathways where if if something builds up it can indicate a specific area that there isn't a cofactor like let's say vitamin B2 for example that is causing that chemical to build up in the urine so that indicates a B2 deficiency in that instance right so there's a lot of these metabolites that are detected with the test and the lab gives us really they give They give us their own algorithmic recommendations on what they think based on their proprietary algorithm, the client needs in terms of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant support, detox support, mitochondrial energy production support. right And I use it to an
Case Studies Highlighting Lab Test Importance
00:09:52
chrisyzen
extent, but it's it's much more interesting to really delve into the markers and then correlate to what the person has told me about symptoms, signs, diet stuff, whatever else.
00:10:03
chrisyzen
so with a person that already has health problems we expect to see plenty of imbalances obviously so just to have a couple of lab tests in front of me for two somewhat different individuals so on the one case the client was doing really well on my program for months and months and months but then he had to travel, his work was super busy, he fell off the wagon in terms of the diet, the supplementation and then prior some couple of months prior to that he
00:10:38
chrisyzen
to take antibiotics for a dental procedure and just things the stress and everything else and and the the antibiotic stuff it kind of perturbed him enough where he actually did at one point have some some kind of infection type stuff right so at that point I told him now is a good time to run a couple of lab tests we did us two tests we did this metabolomics plus urine test and there was a lot of stuff going on there was obviously dysbiosis markers so bacteria and fungal stuff that the the metabolomics caught, but we already knew that based on the stool test data. There were some markers for b B vitamin deficiencies at that point. Again, he wasn't doing the diet and the supplementation as well as he was before. So he kind of, he admitted himself, he could have been doing better, you know.
00:11:29
chrisyzen
Then the certain neurotransmitter metabolites were indicating neuroinflammation. That's another thing that we can catch that is very difficult. First of all, it's very difficult to see look looking out from the outside right as a practitioner. But it's also difficult for a client to necessarily, at least in the earlier stages, it's difficult for a client to kind of say, you know, I feel like I'm a bit neuro inflamed. No, no, no, nobody wakes up and says, I feel neuro inflamed. People have brain fog, they might not be able to focus as well. They don't really, they're not working on, they're not firing on all cylinders. And they kind of know that. But that could be because of B vitamin deficiencies, it could be mitochondrial dysfunction, it could be toxicity.
00:12:21
chrisyzen
So it's difficult, even if they self-evaluate as, you know, based on the kind of these signs and symptoms, if they kind of give you like brain fog is a nine out of 10, that's clear. They have brain fog, but it's difficult then to say it could be neuroinflammation. This is why when we have data from a reliable lab that says quinolinic acid is in the yellow.
00:12:49
chrisyzen
We know stuff is going on. This stuff is serious. We need to really double down and be a lot stricter with the diet, the supplementation, the stress reduction stuff, the sleep stuff, because all of these things, they're together or required to address these issues. And again, like I said, with a person with an overt health issue, like someone that has like an acute infection type stuff,
00:13:11
chrisyzen
he was kind of It was clear that stuff was going on, so his the antioxidant status, the glutathione marker was in the yellow, which indicates some kind of antioxidant deficiency.
00:13:26
chrisyzen
which can be because of low protein intake, it can be because of increased toxic burden, or it could be a combination of the two, which for many people it is. And then his lipid peroxidation was in the yellow, almost in the red. And that is, excuse me.
00:13:44
chrisyzen
Another really great great thing to catch because it's it's indicating damage to like mitochondria, brain cells potentially, organ cells, anything that has ah lipids in it, which is everything, all cells, mitochondria.
00:13:59
chrisyzen
so this however as i already said these kinds of things we expect to see and this is someone in their 60s in this example so we expect to see these and then his omega 3s were low but because his lipid peroxides were high It's very easy to see that it's the Omega-3s are getting damaged because of the stress in the body, the inflammation and oxidative stress. It's not because he's deficient, quote-unquote, in Omega-3s. So the lab's automated report tells you, take more Omega-3s. I'm like, hell no. they just as i Just ignore that part. and right Right now Omega-3s will be adding fuel to the fire.
00:14:39
chrisyzen
So these are the kind of things we see with a person that has a health issue, right? He had also aluminum was high in in the urine. So yeah, it's clear that the diet had slipped at that point. But here's where it kind of can get even more interesting, right? So like I said, we expect a lot of those things in a person that there' is not feeling too well at the moment.
00:15:07
chrisyzen
This other test, just as an example that I pulled up here, was ah someone much younger over 20 years younger than this other client. And he generally was performing at ah at a very high level. He was overall feeling very well, eating quite clean. I should pretty damn clean compared to most people. Feeling strong, working very hard, so very stressed in terms of job and other kind of things, psychologically and physically.
00:15:40
chrisyzen
but still very, very much younger than the other person in our early 40s, strong, lean. that this kind of high performing individual. And with these kinds of people, they might not score very high on all of the metabolic function and the health assessments, right? So they might have very low scores for most things. So it's difficult to say which specifically what where is a big glaring issue that's a massively high priority.
00:16:15
chrisyzen
sometimes Sometimes there is, but sometimes you're like, okay, well this kind we we need to mean to delve deeper with lab testing to see where's the issue. And with this individual, we did a lot of lab tests. We did like five different lab tests. And I'm always so happy when people are like, yeah, hell yeah, I'm goingnna i'm going to invest
Long-term Health and Hidden Imbalances
00:16:32
chrisyzen
in this, you know?
00:16:33
chrisyzen
1500 bucks hell yeah let's do it because all this data each test give us such awesome data that again if you let these imbalances run rampant for 20 years yeah you can expect health problems but if you catch them in your 40s or earlier but if you catch them in your 40s and address them and have a strategy to to know how to make sure those things don't get out of balance for life because that's what i teach you spot on my program then i wholeheartedly believe that we have changed this individual's trajectory for the life health lifespan and health span or all other things being equal of course so we caught
00:17:25
chrisyzen
some bacteria this but and this is just the metabolomics this is just the urine collection test this is why i love this test so much because it gives us such a wide spanning view of the body and its various systems so we called
00:17:42
chrisyzen
fungal this east slash fungal dysbiosis marker so a couple of markers that indicate candida and potentially other fungi fungi some dysbiosis markers which Honestly, and knowing the full picture with the stool test that we also ran and other tests, there was dysbiosis. But sometimes these these dysbiosis markers on these organic acids tests and the metabolomics tests, they could all be in range and looking quite okay.
00:18:15
chrisyzen
But then when we do a stool test, there is there is inflammatory dysbiosis going on. There's you overgrowth of inflammatory bacteria and sometimes potentially certain just digestive health markers are out of balance. So I'm not always, in this case, there was some indication of dysbiosis on the test, but I'm not always trusting anymore the organic acids, dysbiosis markers, if they're quote unquote in the green, because recently over that I think on the oh it was over the summer when it happened on a few times and then in the summer I remember this one individual he his organic acids test was perfect and like I had never seen an organic acids to be like ah ah no marker was
00:19:07
chrisyzen
out of like in in bad shape there only perhaps only one marker that sometimes indicates a vitamin D deficiency but I was super inconclusive because it could be could be low for ah you know at least six seven other reasons but everything else was super like smack bang in the middle so I was like this is amazing but then when we saw those two tests there was some some serious serious overgrowth of inflammatory bacteria and there was serious indicators of inflammation in the intestine which again it it was a relatively young individual so when you're young and and healthy and strong and running on you know running on adrenaline a lot of the time you can power through and not even feel any of these imbalances
00:19:56
chrisyzen
But having caught it, that individual now will address that issue or has already and knows what to do to make sure that that that doesn't happen again. So I'm confident if we rerun the stool test that all all of that that we found the first time around would not be an issue.
00:20:17
chrisyzen
so but what else with this younger individual here so we saw we saw some dysbiosis and fungal stuff going on we saw an issue with potentially dopamine being low and serotonin being high and that did correlate a little bit with some of the the the signs and symptoms reported uh that there was a couple of markers indicating acute toxic exposure which could be occupational toxic exposure so something i mentioned to them just kind of
00:20:52
chrisyzen
to make sure that if there's if the thing is certain we cannot avoid certain toxic exposure like if you're working with a lot of even in an office right if you're touching computers keyboards printers even just ah those ah those print printer toners when they print that that's ah releasing toxins so even just working in an office you're gonna have a lot of occupational toxic exposure that you can do nothing about but well but you can't do anything about the toxic exposure itself
00:21:22
chrisyzen
or you can do little about it, but you can do a lot in terms of
00:21:28
chrisyzen
supporting your detoxification system, right? So that is what, that is what the test indicated that we need to up the detox pathways. We need to support those. Then we also saw again, so that we, but this is again, the the beauty of running a ah lab test like this. You will not know in someone who's firing on all cylinders, still young, healthy and resilient, you will not know
00:21:56
chrisyzen
if there's some kind of minor imbalance or even relatively high imbalance unless you do some some analysis with ah with with like lab work right this is why this stuff is I believe is absolutely indispensable in today's age because what we caught with this individual is the lipid peroxides were not as high as the previous person that I was talking about that was in the 60s but uh there were they were still in the yellow so you you you don't want them even to be
00:22:29
chrisyzen
in the upper, quote unquote, green area. You want it to be as low as possible. And then we called the DNA damage marker, which is another marker, non-specific marker for oxidative stress. It's called 8-OH-HDG, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine. So that one was again in the yellow, just about. It was borderline yellow, green and yellow. So these two markers alone catching these two non-specific markers early in the game,
00:22:59
chrisyzen
is super awesome because because you think about it one is a lipid peroxidation lipid peroxide marker the other one is a DNA damage marker so clearly something in the person's diet lifestyle environment physiology was causing these markers to be somewhat elevated And lipid peroxidation, I recently did an episode on that. That is one of the major factors in accelerated aging and disease progression, basically, the development of disease. So a little bit of lipid peroxidation today can mean in 20, 30 years down the line or
00:23:50
chrisyzen
or sooner or later, depending on a lot of factors, can mean heart disease and cancers and and Alzheimer's disease literally. So the key, at least one of the major keys to preventing those things from happening and increasing our longevity and performance and all that good stuff is to do things that keep lipid peroxidation down to a minimum and keep DNA damage down to a minimum and one of those things well has to be diet dietary changes everybody has certain things that we can optimize supplementation to to prevent the damage to support the repair of the damage to reduce the toxins
00:24:35
chrisyzen
That's also important but also the to support the detoxification system That's another aspect of supplementation Lowering stress sleeping better to repair damage better and so on and so forth right and it's all a part of the protocol, right? but again the the key point here is that How would you ever know? That a relatively healthy person that's performing well, it's feeling strong, how would you ever know by looking at them that they have a little bit more DNA damage in yeah as as measured by this ATO-HDG?