Understanding your pattern / Interactive care map

Measured With the Wrong Instrument

Explore Dr. Axe’s delivery-and-use metaphor, then map what you have tried and what still needs attention.

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Map your city

A blood level is one part of the picture.

Dr. Axe uses a city metaphor: blood is the road, hormones and nutrients are the traffic, and cells are the destinations. It is a teaching picture, not a test of your body. This tool cannot tell you whether a delivery problem exists or what causes your symptoms.

On the road

Supply

The journey

Delivery

At the house

Use

1. What have you tried?

Choose a response for at least one approach. Never start, stop or change medication because of this exercise. Those decisions belong with your prescriber.

Thyroid medicationHRT or birth controlAntidepressant or anti-anxiety medicationMenopause supplementsKeto or fastingSleep aidsGym or trainerCutting alcohol, sugar or dairy

2. Where do you most want support?

Select up to three areas.

3. Have your labs been described as normal?

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